The Estonian Embassy team, led by Ambassador Tiina Intelmann, visited Lviv. The Estonian diplomats attended the “Land of Poets” festival—an event for music and literature enthusiasts—which featured participants from Estonia this year. The diplomats enjoyed poetry readings, discussions, meetings with authors, performances, and concerts.

During her visit to Lviv, the Ambassador held productive stalks with Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi regarding new opportunities for cooperation. The meeting covered municipal partnerships and business collaboration, educational, medical, and veteran-related initiatives, cooperation between universities, as well as local self-governance during the war.


Tiina Intelmann, together with Andriy Sadovyi, also joined the city-wide ceremony for fallen soldiers in Rynok Square.


The Ambassador also met with Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of the Lviv Regional State Administration. Discussions focused on expanding cooperation and implementing joint long-term projects in the energy and healthcare sectors.


Discussions were held with Olena Urdei, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Science of the Lviv Regional State Administration, regarding current challenges facing the education system in the Lviv region. Specifically, the conversation focused on the safety of the educational process, the construction of shelters in educational institutions, and the strengthening of their energy resilience amidst ongoing Russian attacks.

Meetings were also held with the IT company ELEKS and representatives of the Lviv IT Cluster.

