New edition of the Be Basque Talent Meeting connecting with professionals resident in France
2021/02/25
The first session of the event gathered together nearly 40 highly qualified professionals With the aim of maintaining and fostering links with the Basque Country, Bizkaia Talent has organised a new online edition of the Be Basque Talent Meeting (BBTM), on this occasion aimed at highly [...]
Basque corporation MONDRAGON, the world leader in industrial cooperatives
2021/02/15
It has a turnover six times greater than the cooperative that takes second place and eight times more than the one in third place. The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) has recognised MONDRAGON Corporation as the largest industrial cooperative in the world, both due to the aggregate [...]
Bilbao to have the largest green hydrogen plant in Europe
2021/02/09
Photograph: El Estrecho Digital Repsol has chosen the Port of Bilbao to develop the first 100 megawatt alkaline electrolyser plant. The infrastructure will be installed at Petronor, a subsidiary of Repsol. The first green hydrogen plant in Spain will be operating in the Biscayan town of [...]
Europe recognises the Basque Digital Innovation Hub for its work in the digital transformation of Basque SMEs
2021/02/03
It has been awarded the DIHnet Champions Challenge at the European Commission’s annual Digital Innovation Hubs conference The Basque Digital Innovation Hub (BDIH), the Basque public-private R&D infrastructure and technology service provider, was awarded the DIHnet Champions [...]
Ikerbasque launches a new call of the Research Fellows offering 20 positions for postdoctoral researchers
2021/01/21
The call for applications will remain open until the 10th March Ikerbasque – the Basque Foundation for Science, has launched a new call offering 20 positions for postdoctoral researchers. These positions are financed by the Basque Government and the host institution where the researcher [...]
The Basque Country, in the upper zone of the European table for regional social progress
2021/01/21
It is the Spanish State’s leading region and is making significant progress at the European level, in which it has risen 54 positions in the ranking over the last four years The European Commission has recently published its Social Progress Index 2020. This is a comparative study of the [...]
Spaces Bilbao joins the Be Basque Dual Career Centre programme to support the spouses of international professionals in their social and employment integration
2021/01/19
Carmen Méndez de Castro (Bizkaia Talent) and Eva Martín (Spaces Bilbao). This flexible work platform will be available to those people who want to embark on a business venture or need a space to work Bizkaia Talent and Spaces, which belongs to the British International Workspaces Group (IWG), [...]
Enrolment open for 42 Urduliz, the programming campus for the digital professions of the future
2021/01/18
The successful programme created in Paris and now running on 33 campuses in 22 countries, has arrived in Bizkaia It will train future programmers and qualified digital professionals to meet the new employment challenges Applicants who wish to register must visit the website 42urduliz.com, fill [...]
The Basque Country is in 12th position in the global country ranking of the 2020 Human Development Index
2021/01/14
Life expectancy has risen to 83.9 years putting it into third place behind Hong Kong (84.9) and Japan (84.6) Basque society is one of the most highly developed on the planet with a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.937, placing it in 12th position in the world country classification, [...]
Bizkaia Talent renews its agreement with the Lurgaia Fundazioa Foundation
2021/01/14
Under this agreement, the Basque association will continue to carry out initiatives involving the conservation and management of biodiversity Bizkaia Talent and the Lurgaia Fundazioa Foundation have renewed their commitment made two years ago in order to promote and encourage the conservation [...]
