The Administrative Arrangement establishing the cooperation has been signed at a ceremony that took place in Brussels on 13^th of December 2018. The signatories were DIGIT's Director-General Gertrud Ingestad and the Head of SAEGU Oleksandr Ryzhenko.

The cooperation concerns:

• planning for a knowledge-sharing programme for public administration interoperability solutions, including federating reusable solutions across open collaboration platforms such as Joinup;
• providing a knowledge-sharing mechanism for professionals to allow them to collaborate and share knowledge in their field of expertise.

In practice, the collaboration will consist of visits of delegations and exchanges of experts, cross-participation in workshops, seminars and similar activities, as well as exchange of experiences, best practices, standards, frameworks, data models and tools.

Since the signing of the Cooperation Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union in 2014, Ukraine has made great strides in improving its digital public services. Among some of its achievements are the rolling out of the Prozorro platform for e-Procurement, as well as the adoption of the Trembyta platform for data exchange.

Ukraine has paid a special focus on interoperability and is in the process of adopting several standards coming out of the European Commission, such as the Core Vocabularies. In order to build upon this progress, Ukraine would like to cooperate much more closely with the European Institutions.

DIGIT is responsible for the implementation of the ISA² programme for the European Commission, which promotes a holistic approach towards interoperability, as well as creates solutions that can be reused at different levels of public administrations. Ukraine can benefit from many of these solutions, and in turn it can share its own experiences and best practices with the EU. This will be facilitated through the Administrative Agreement which does not entail any financial commitment for either side.