The meeting was opened by Head of the Foreign Service and Director General Henryka Mościcka-Dendys and Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage Marek Krawczyk. According to the MFA director general, cooperation between the institutions needs to be streamlined. As the goals for the nearest future, she identified analysing the presence of Polish representatives on advisory bodies at memorial sites and reviewing the coverage of Poland-related themes in the exhibitions presented there.

Still, a major challenge is the lack of knowledge within German society regarding the history of the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe and the Polish victims of that war, as well as the shortage of academic and popular history literature in German. Therefore, we should strive for a wider use of the Polish-German history textbook in schools and, hopefully, in academic teaching

- emphasised Director General Henryka Mościcka-Dendys.

Karol Polejowski, Deputy President of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), and Michał Syska, Deputy Head of the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, noted the need to develop lasting mechanisms for cooperation between state institutions and organisations bringing together former prisoners and their families. They also stressed that efforts should be made to improve access to information about Polish victims in exhibitions at memorial sites and to ensure broader representation of Polish groups at anniversary commemorations.

During the meeting, representatives of the Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation presented information on the current challenges faced by associations of former prisoners and their families. Representatives of the Berlin branch of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor outlined their educational activities aimed at audiences in Germany. The discussion was also attended by heads of Polish diplomatic missions and consular offices in Germany and Austria, who provided detailed information on individual memorial sites.

Meeting participants agreed about the need to continue discussion on how to conduct an effective history policy towards Germany and Austria and work out a set of potential joint measures.