Solidarity Fund PL

The Polish Solidarity Fund is a State Treasury Foundation under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. The organisation carries out development cooperation activities for the benefit of other countries. It focuses on support for democratic transition, development of civil society, principles of good governance, local development, support for economic and systemic transformation, and access to information and respect for human rights. SFPL’s main areas of activity are the Eastern Partnership countries, particularly Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, where the SFPL has its branch and representative offices, but also Armenia and support for Belarusian society. In the past, SFPL has funded projects in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia and Myanmar. Implementation of SF PL medium to large scale projects devoted to education sector (VET in particular) in Ukraine started in 2016 – including implementation of components of EU4Skills and Skills4Recovery Programmes. VET and HRD have also been made key priorities of SF PL through the framework agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. Since 2023 SFPL has a Pillar Assessment from the European Commission, which authorises the organisation to implement projects with EU funds. It also serves as the Polish contact point for international election observation missions within the OSCE. SFPL’s activities are financed from Polish development cooperation funds at the disposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, for the implementation of its projects, SFPL receives funds from other donors as well, including the European Union.

In the Skills Alliance for Ukraine, the Polish Solidarity Fund is represented with one project:

The programme “Support to modernisation of vocational education and training in Ukraine” assigned to SF PL by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. The programme has the general objective to contribute to socio-economic recovery and development of Ukraine by assisting modernization of vocational education and training (VET). Modernisation of VET is understood as improvement of teaching content, management system and training base leading to improved quality, labour market adequacy and attractiveness of the VET offer. The programme is implemented in Ukraine through contributions to two multidonor actions: 1) Skills4Recovery (the tasks performed by SF PL, with the EU co-financing) and 2) “Updating the national classifier of occupations and its adjustment to ISCO 08” project (co-funded by EBRD)

Current targets:
– number of students of vocational educations in Ukraine to be trained and assisted till mid 2026 – 2500
– number of adults (including veterans and representatives of vulnerable groups) in Ukraine to be trained/ re-trained till mid 2026 – 600
– number of Ukrainian vocational training institutions to be assisted till mid 2026 – 100