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The Basque Country is the autonomous community with the best gender balance for family care leave in the Spanish state

2022/02/15

Freepik In 2021 a total of 5,607 applications for this type of leave were made in the Basque Autonomous Community, with 2,109 (38%) of them for men, 12% above the national average. As revealed by data provided by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, the number of leave [...]

UPV/EHU University ranks second in the Spanish state for spin-off creation and knowledge transfer turnover

2022/02/07

Zarateman In 2021, the Basque Country’s public university created 12 spin-off companies and achieved turnover of €10m from contracts with institutions, associations and businesses. The University of the Basque Country ranked second in Spain for spin-off creation in 2021, only surpassed by the [...]

Basque Culinary Center receives the Quality Innovation Award as one of the world’s most innovative education centres

2022/02/03

Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz It was awarded the prize for its innovative inclusion of culinary training in a university setting. Excellence Finland, the organisation that founded the Quality Innovation Award competition in 2007, has recently announced its 2021 winners, acknowledging Basque [...]

Bizkaia strengthens its international innovation ecosystem positioning with the EURAXESS TOP IV project closing conference

2022/01/25

160 researchers from 50 different countries took part in the intersectoral researcher mobility conference, organised by Bizkaia Talent together with FECYT and the British Council. The historical territory of Bizkaia continues to drive actions for quality European research, scientific [...]

The Basque Country, regional leader with the highest salaries for IT professionals

2022/01/14

Basque companies offer an average salary of 43,000 euros per year. Cloud Architect is the profile which is most in demand and the best paid. An average salary of 43,000 euros per year and the region of the Spanish State with the highest salaries. That is the average profile of the IT [...]

Bizkaia Talent, “the most engaging talent recruitment organisation” in the Small Business Awards

2022/01/13

The British publication, Corporate Vision Magazine, has presented this award to the Basque Association for the second year running. The Association promoted by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Bizkaia Talent, has once again received the Corporate Vision Magazine Small Business Award for its [...]

Ikerbasque launches the Research Fellows 2022 call offering 20 positions for postdoctoral researchers

2022/01/13

The call for applications will remain open until the 15th March. Ikerbasque – the Basque Foundation for Science, has launched in 2022 a new call offering 20 positions for postdoctoral researchers. These positions are financed by the Basque Government, the European Commission and the [...]

Bizkaia Talent and the Elhuyar Foundation renew their agreement to promote the dissemination of science and technology, and the development of the Basque language

2022/01/04

Feria de la Ciencia Elhuyar 2021 With the signing of this agreement Bizkaia Talent will collaborate for another year with Elhuyar Zientzia Azoka (Elhuyar Science Fair) and will offer four grants to participate in its professional skills programme. Bizkaia Talent and Elhuyar Fundazioa have [...]

The EURAXESS network of the European Commission entrusts Bizkaia Talent with the organization of the closing conference of the TOP IV project

2021/12/22

The event will focus on intersectoral mobility for research workers. It will be virtual by nature and will take place on the 19th and 20th January 2022. The Supporting researchers’ intersectoral career paths for building ERA conference, which features within the framework of the [...]

University students from Bizkaia take part in the Climate Fresk to learn about climate change and take a step forward in the cause