The development of cultural and humanitarian cooperation between Ukraine and the Republic of Albania is based on the provisions of the Agreement on Cooperation between the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Albania dated May 27, 2003.

As of today, work is underway on the updated draft of the agreement and the signing of the interdepartmental Program.

2020-2021 

The development of cooperation in the archival sphere has been initiated. The draft Agreement between the State Archives Service of Ukraine and the Central Archives of the Republic of Albania was approved by the Albanian side and it was agreed to sign the said Agreement as part of the exchange of high-level visits.

On June 21-23, 2021, as part of the visit of the delegation of the National Aviation University, two cooperation agreements were signed with the Mediterranean University of Albania and the Polytechnic University of Tirana.

On July 7, 2022, during the meeting of the local councils of Tirana and Kharkiv, with the participation of mayors Erion Veliai and Igor Terekhov (online), the Tirana city council made a decision on the post-war reconstruction of one of the schools in the city of Kharkiv.

Work continues on the conclusion of the Protocol on cooperation between Kyiv National University named after T. Shevchenko and Tirana State University, as well as the initiation of the practice of student and teacher exchange, teaching Ukrainian and Albanian languages at Kyiv and Tirana universities.

The establishment of cooperation between the national scientific academies of Ukraine and the Republic of Albania and the National Library named after I. Vernadskyi with the National Library of Albania has been initiated.

As part of the development of twinning relations between the cities of Kharkiv and Tirana, on May 14, 2021 representatives of the Kharkiv City Council met with the Vice-Mayor of Tirana, Anuela Ristani. During the meeting, in particular, they discussed the possibility of erecting a monument to Taras Shevchenko in Tirana (in Kharkiv - to Mother Teresa). They also agreed on joint measures in the field of youth policy. In frames of the visit, an Agreement on cooperation was also signed between the I-III grade school N5 in Kharkiv and the gymnasium "Sami Frasheri" in Tirana.

On October 26, 2021 the mayor of Kyiv, Vitalii Klitschko, and the mayor of the capital of Albania, Tirana, Erion Veliai, signed a memorandum on the establishment of friendly relations between the cities.

2022 

May 12, 2022 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Council Tetyana Yehorova-Lutsenko signed the Memorandum of Understanding, Friendship and Cooperation between the Kharkiv Regional Council of Ukraine and the Fier Prefecture of the Republic of Albania in frames of a visit to the Republic of Albania.

As of today, the Embassy is working on opening of Ukrainian book shelf at the National Library of Albania.

Work is underway to introduce a Ukrainian-language audio guide at the National Museum of Medieval Art in Korcha.

Albanian diaspora in Ukraine

The total number of the Albanian diaspora in Ukraine is about 3,500 people, most of whom live in four settlements: Karakurt (Odesa region), Hamivka, Georgiivka and Divnynske (Zaporizhzhia region). According to the 2001 census of Ukraine, Albanians lived in 24 regions of Ukraine.