Bizkaia Talent participates in the biannual EURAXESS conference in Nantes
2022/03/30
Bizkaia Talent delivers a session about the resources and services of the EURAXESS network for the intersectoral mobility of research workers. On the 23rd, 24th and 25th March the city of Nantes hosted the EURAXESS Conference 2022, at which members of the EURAXESS network were able to see the [...]
Bizkaia’s university talent discovers the silver economy sector and its potential at the Nagusi Intelligence Center
2022/03/22
The conference provided an insight into the major social and economic transformations expected. The Nagusi Intelligence Center (NIC) has recently opened at the Torre Urduliz building, with the aim of becoming the driving force behind Bizkaia’s strategy for the silver economy by anticipating [...]
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 [...]
