The Minister of Sport and Tourism has approved funding allocations under the Programme to mitigate the effects of the floods of September 2024, which aims to support tourism recovery and promotion in the affected regions.

300 Orlik sports facilities have already been refurbished under the Ministry of Sport and Tourism's Programme of My pitch - Orlik 2012 sports facilities modernisation. Further 1,042 Orlik facilities are currently undergoing refurbishment. The opening of the 300th Orlik pitch was accompanied by a press conference in Bytom, attended by Minister of Sport and Tourism Jakub Rutnicki, Mayor of Bytom Mariusz Wołosz, Deputy Minister of Sport and Tourism Piotr Borys, Senator Halina Bieda and Deputy Minister of Science Marek Gzik.

Minister of Sport and Tourism Jakub Rutnicki, accompanied by Sławomir Szmal, President of the Polish Handball Federation and Mariusz Frankowski, Governor of Mazowieckie Voivodeship announced today, at the refurbished Orlik sports facility in Nowa Góra, the launch of a pilot Handball Academy Certification Programme and opened the registration of teams for the national tournament Handball on Orlik Pitches to be held as part of the Active School programme.

On 8 February 2024, sports ministers from 26 EU Member States, including Minister of Sport and Tourism Sławomir Nitras, signed the Declaration on the European Sport Model. The document calls on sport governing bodies and the European Commission to promote sport based on values such as democracy, transparency, integrity, gender equality and openness.

Deputy Minister Ireneusz Raś, on behalf of Minister of Sport and Tourism Sławomir Nitras, met on Monday with a delegation of the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine, headed by Deputy Minister Andriy Czesnokov.

Minister of Sport and Tourism Sławomir Nitras met with Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya on Tuesday, 9 January. The main subject of the meeting was cooperation between Poland and Belarus in the field of sport.

On 28 December 2023, Minister of Sport and Tourism Sławomir Nitras handed over letters of appointment to Secretaries of State at the Ministry of Sport and Tourism Ireneusz Raś and Piotr Borys.

On 13 December 2023, at the request of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, President Andrzej Duda appointed Sławomir Nitras as Minister of Sport and Tourism.

On 1 January 2024, an amendment to the Regulation of the Minister of Sport and Tourism of 17 May 2022 on monthly sports grants will come into effect. The amendment will increase the amounts of monthly sports grants for athletes representing our country at international sporting events in Olympic sports.