The Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Foundation will operate under Belgian law, the Ministry of Culture has announced.
“At the center of the discussion is the initiative to create the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which will serve as a multi-donor platform for preserving and restoring cultural monuments damaged by the war,” reads the statement from the Parliamentary Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy, following a joint meeting with the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament.
Deputy Minister of Culture Ivan Verbytsky noted that the foundation will function under Belgian legislation to ensure transparency and build trust among international partners.
As reported earlier, in July 2025, the Ministry of Culture and its partners presented new international instruments to support Ukrainian culture during the 2025 Recovery Conference in Rome, Italy — including the Cultural Resilience Alliance, the Ukrainian Heritage Fund, and Team Europe Ukraine.
In early October, the Ministry held the first founding meeting of the international Cultural Resilience Alliance platform, which served as a preparatory stage for the Second International Conference “Cooperation for Resilience,” scheduled for November 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference will present the operational framework of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
