The sessions, hosted in the “Academics” hall of the Academy of Sciences, were chaired by the project’s editor-in-chief, Skënder Gjinushi, president of the Albanian Academy of Sciences, and deputy editor-in-chief, Mehmet Kraja, president of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.

The meeting approved glossaries covering 13 fields, including archaeology; medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and National Awakening history; communication and media; political systems and justice; diaspora; linguistics/Albanian studies; arts; education; energy and power; engineering, construction and architecture; medicine; literature; and 20th-century history. This followed an earlier session in Durrës on June 25–28, 2025.

On the third day, the board concluded discussions with final remarks.

The “Albanian Encyclopedia” will encompass 27 fields in total. With this meeting, the process of unifying scientific criteria among the three collaborating academies – Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia – was completed.

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Angjelin Preljocaj, now an external member of the Academy of Sciences, was proposed by prominent personalities such as Gjergj Prevazi and by acad. Ismail Kadare, with a book dedicated to him.

He is one of the most well-known personalities in the world in the field of contemporary choreography. Since the mid-1980s, he has dominated the French, European and world scene with the skill and originality of his art, as a dancer and choreographer. Ismail Kadare wrote about Preljocaj: “His living human alphabet has all the wonder, as well as the temporality that a human being has; this alphabet carries all its treasure”.

While Ermira Murati is a researcher and executive director in the newest branches of computer science; in charge of the well-known “Open Artificial Intelligence” since 2018. After a successful collaboration as a researcher for more than seven years, she became the chief technology officer, leading the work at ChatGPT.

Acad. Anastas Angjeli and prof. Dhimitër Tole recommended her describing the candidate as one of the most popular personalities today in the field of technological developments and artificial intelligence.

Lea Ypi, known and appreciated internationally as an Albanian researcher and writer, is the author of eight well-known academic and literary works, published in English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Chinese; two of them also published in Albanian.

Academicians Floresha Dado and Stefan Çapaliku were the recommenders of her candidacy estimating that the candidate is a personality with extraordinary success on an international scale, with high prestige.

Other personalities who were accepted as external members of Academy of Sciences are Gëzim Alpion and Lulzim Tafa./p.s./