As part of the cooperation, the IPN has prepared 65 thousand comic books within the “Wolf’s Trail” series, which will be included in the running packages. The IPN also undertook to ship the running packages, awards (medals) and educational materials such as leaflets, brochures, publications and games to Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. They will be distributed during the run and accompanying events.

The recipients of the parcels are Australian Polish community organizations cooperating with the Institute for years, such as the Nasza Polonia Association, the Federation of Polish Organizations in New South Wales (Sydney), with its President Adam Gajkowski who initiated the shipment, the Polish Community Council in Victoria (Melbourne), Polish community centers in Narrabundah (near Canberra), Christchurch in New Zealand and the Polish community in Porto Alegre.

On the Australian continent, the competition is taking place on 16 May.

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The Wolf's Trail Run is an open-air running event and the largest memory run organized in Poland and in Polish communities around the world. It was first held in 2013. Once a local event, the run has attained international status over time. So far, it has happened in places like Vilnius, Vienna, London, Chicago, New York or Melbourne, to name but a few. It commemorates the soldiers of the Polish anti-communist and anti-Soviet underground resistance movement which operated in the years 1944—1963 within the pre-war borders of Poland. As a result of the communist terror in Poland, thousands of people died. These were people who died under court judgments, were murdered or died in the headquarters of the communist Security Offices, in prisons and camps, or fell in combat or during pacification operations. The bodies of the victims would be buried by the communists in secret and often still unknown places.