The international conference Encyclopedistics 2020 – Achievements and Challenges, organised on the 70^th anniversary of the founding of the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography, was held on 15 and 16 October in the Institute's great hall, and simultaneously online. Scholars and experts from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Poland, the USA, Serbia, Spain, and Croatia exchanged experiences and the results of their research. The conference was opened by the Institute's director general, Bruno Kragić, and the introductory presentation was held by Filip Hameršak, member of the Institute's Board of Directors and assistant editor-in-chief of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon.

A conference that brought together encyclopedia editors and publishers from both sides of the Atlantic was held at Norway House in Brussels, organised by the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, the European Parliamentary Research Service, and the Mission of Norway to the European Union. The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography was represented by its director, Bruno Kragić, and Nataša Jermen, assistant director for research and inter-institutional cooperation.