A strategic session of Ukrainian stakeholders dedicated to reviewing the first year of operation of the Tallinn Mechanism Project Office (TMPO) took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
The event was chaired by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalisation Andrii Droniuk. The strategic session brought together representatives of the Tallinn Mechanism Project Office, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre, the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, and the Security Service of Ukraine.
The participants discussed the results of TMPO’s work, its contribution to the development of the Tallinn Mechanism as an international donor-support initiative for Ukraine, and identified key priorities for the Project Office in the near term.
“Amid Russia’s ongoing aggression, Ukraine’s cyber resilience is a matter of strategic national security. Over the past year, the Tallinn Mechanism Project Office has become an important coordination hub that helps transforming Ukraine’s needs, partners’ expertise, and implementing actors’ capabilities into practical solutions aimed at protecting critical infrastructure and strengthening the cyber resilience capacities of Ukrainian institutions in cyberspace. Let meI would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Project Office and its entire team for their professionalism, dedication, and tireless daily affords, which continue to make international cyber support for Ukraine more structured, targeted, and impactful”, - emphasized Andrii Droniuk, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Chief Digital Transformation Officer.
The Tallinn Mechanism Project Office began its work in Ukraine in May 2025 with the aim of enhancing transparency, improving coordination and increasing the effectiveness of international donor support directed at strengthening Ukraine’s cyber resilience. Since then, TMPO has become an important element of interaction between international partners — the participating countries of the Tallinn Mechanism — Ukrainian state institutions, and aid recipients, including Ukrainian public authorities and critical infrastructure facilities.
With TMPO’s participation, three general meetings of the participating countries of the initiative have been held — in Kyiv, Paris and London. The Project Office team has also actively represented the Tallinn Mechanism at key international cyber conferences, including the Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum in Ukraine, InCyber in France, and CyberUK in the United Kingdom.
With the support of the Estonian Centre for International Development (ESTDEV), TMPO created the Tallinn Mechanism Platform — an online resource designed to facilitate business contacts, engage cybersecurity companies in the implementation of Tallinn Mechanism projects, and deepen cooperation between the Ukrainian and foreign IT sectors.
The TMPO team coordinates the implementation of specific cyber-support projects carried out under the Tallinn Mechanism. To date, seven projects funded by Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have been completed. The recipients include the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the Office of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the State Enterprise “Diia”, and the State Cyber Protection Centre of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.
More than 20 projects supported by the governments of Sweden, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Estonia are currently under implementation. Approximately 70 additional project initiatives are being considered by donors for further funding.
“The Tallinn Mechanism Project Office has demonstrated its effectiveness as a practical coordination and monitoring tool for international cyber support to Ukraine. I am convinced that this experience can — and should — be scaled up to other formats of Ukraine’s cooperation with our foreign partners,” the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine underlined.
Special attention during the event was also devoted to the development of international public-private partnerships in the field of cybersecurity. The participants of the strategic session reaffirmed the importance of further expanding cooperation between Ukrainian institutions, international partners and the private sector in order to strengthen Ukraine’s cyber resilience, ensure the cyber protection of civilian infrastructure, and support the sustainable development of Ukraine’s capabilities in cyberspace.
For reference: The Tallinn Mechanism was established by Ukraine’s foreign partners in December 2023 to coordinate international assistance aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s national cybersecurity and cyber resilience. As of today, the initiative includes 14 countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Poland, the United States, Finland, France, Sweden and Czechia. The European Union, NATO and the World Bank participate in the Tallinn Mechanism as observers.