The program is implemented by the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IAE PAS) and financed entirely by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The legal basis for cooperation with the Ukrainian side is the agreement signed by IAE PAS and the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IA NASU) in Warsaw on December 4, 2019.
It is a continuation of previous research and museum projects that the National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) has been carrying out since 1994 in cooperation with Ukrainian cultural and scientific institutions in Kerch, Crimea, and after the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in Olbia on the basis of an agreement with the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev.
After the MNW resigned from running the project at the end of 2018, it is continued by the IAE PAS in cooperation with IA NASU.