(ANSA) - UDINE, FEB 27 - ''Discussing shared events means adding value both to Esof Trieste2020 and Rjieka Epk2020. Not only in terms of individual events, which will attract many visitors in 2020, but also in terms of collaboration between the two cities, building a solid network of relations for the future'', according to the President of the Study Centre for European Dialogue Stefan Cok. The president has promoted a meeting, as part of a series of initiatives in Trieste and the Balkans, in order to compare the two major international events that will be hosted in 2020 along the Upper Adriatic coastline. After a conference held this morning in the Tessitori hall of the FVG Regional Council, attended by the President of the Trieste International Foundation Stefano Fantoni, the deans of the University of Trieste and Fiume Maurizio Fermeglia and Snjezana Prijic Samarzija, with the deputy dean Alen Ruzic, and the Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies Sanja Bojanic, the Croatian delegation visited in the afternoon the Electrical Substation of the Old Port which will be the ''headquarters'' of Esof2020. During the meetings ''issues and elements emerged, entailing collaboration, such as the dissemination of science among citizens and the connection between the natural sciences and humanities, the diplomacy of science in relations with institutions and society''. The two delegations made an appointment in the coming weeks to keep on talking and discussing common events to be carried out together. (ANSA).