Academy of Sciences of Albania and Austrian Academy cooperation in the field of science

 A delegation of the Academy of Sciences of Albania headed by its president, acad. Skender Gjinushi, participated in the solemn annual meeting of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which took place in Vienna. After the meeting, acad. Gjinushi and other members of the delegation were received by the President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences prof. Heinz Fassmann and vice. President Ulrike Diebold. During this reception, the memorandum of understanding between the two academies was also signed. According to ASH, this memorandum is the fourth that the academies sign, starting from 1989. In his welcoming speech, acad. Gjinushi emphasized the tradition of collaboration between academies and the role of Austrian albanologists and the Austrian school in the development of albanology.

"The fact that Gotfried Leibnitz, the founder of the establishment of an Austrian academy of science, is among the first to hypothesize the connection of the Albanian language with Illyrian, thus becoming the creator of the basic thesis of Albanology, is extremely significant," said academic. Gjinushi Gjinushi continues that our Academy has been reforming for three years and in this process we have taken the Austrian Academy as an organizational model. "Thanks to this reform, our Academy now has 55 regular members, 10 external members and about 20 honorary members; In our Academy, there are 9 permanent committees with 130 members, which include professors and researchers from the most popular universities and institutes of the country, as well as about ten research units mainly oriented towards technical-natural sciences such as nano- and bio-technology; While the president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences prof. Fassmann expressed his desire to visit the Academy of Albania. While the president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences prof. Fassmann expressed his desire to visit the Academy of Albania.