A high-level delegation from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (UNAS) visited Trieste on 28, 29 and 30 November upon invitation by the Secretariat of the Central European Initiative (CEI) and under the auspices of the CEI Ukrainian Presidency.
The delegation was composed of Prof. Anatoly G. Zagorodny, Vice President of UNAS, a position of ministerial ranking in Ukraine, and Prof. Yaroslav B. Blume, Director of the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics. They were welcomed by the CEI Secretary General, Amb. Gerhard Pfanzelter, and then accompanied to the research centres of the “Trieste Science System”, where they met Prof. Carlo Rizzuto, President of Elettra-Synchrotron, Prof. Fernando Quevedo, Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics “Abdus Salam” (ICTP), Dr. Francisco Baralle, Director General of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), and Mr. Enzo Moi, Director General of Area Science Park.