It was created on the basis of a memorandum signed in 2008 in Prague by foreign ministers Karel Schwarzenberg and Radoslaw Sikorski.
[2] Every year, the Polish Foreign Minister announces a grant competition in which non-governmental organizations, associations, foundations, universities, research institutes and non-profit organizations - in collaboration with partner institutions from the Czech Republic - can apply for funding initiatives and projects designed to stimulate the further development and strengthening of the Polish-Czech relations.
[4] In Poland, the council of the forum, appointed by the foreign minister for a 2-year term, gives its opinions on applications.
In November 2013 he was succeeded by Mateusz Gniazdowski, deputy director of the Centre for Eastern Studies.
The Forum continues the tradition of cooperation between independent dissident groups in non-democratic times before the changeover of 1989, which culminated in the activities of the Polish–Czech–Slovak Solidarity movement.