The Financial Times places Bilbao as the 8th best medium-sized European city for foreign investment
2022/03/14
The city has been so awarded in recognition of its economic strengths, its industrial network and its financing capacities. Bilbao has been selected as the 8th best medium-sized European city (population between 200,000 and 500,000 inhabitants) for direct foreign investment by the fDi [...]
The second edition of the Be Basque Talent Program up and running to attract highly qualified profiles to the Basque Country
2022/03/11
71 professionals resident in 17 countries will participate in this second edition of the program with a view to continuing their professional careers in the Basque Country within a year. Basque companies are facing the most difficult market for years in terms of finding qualified talent. [...]
Bizkaia launches the talent attraction programme to promote the hiring of professionals who are working outside the Basque Country
2022/03/10
The programme envisages financial support of up to 40% of the annual gross salary for the person contracted to a maximum of 30,000 euros per contract. The Provincial Council of Bizkaia assigns 800,000 euros to this initiative whose aim is to facilitate the return of professional workers. The [...]
Bizkaia Talent plants over 100 trees to offset CO2 emissions and recover the native forest
2022/02/22
The Basque association has planted five species of trees in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve with the aid of international professionals from the Relocation & Be Basque Dual Career Centre service and postgraduate students from the Be Basque Ambassadors programme. On February 19, as in [...]
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 [...]
