Bizkaia Talent manages financial aid and grants programmes in strategic areas of Bizkaia, aimed at highly qualified people.
With the aim of promoting recruitment, training, knowledge and skills development at the highest level in the strategic sectors of Bizkaia, we have allocated more than 8.5 million euros to our financial aid and grants programmes to support more than 270 talented people, helping Bizkaia to have professionals who can respond to the present and future challenges that the territory must face, mainly in the fields of automotive, biosciences, aeronautics, creativity and innovation, energy transition, telecommunications, silver economy, big data and capital goods.
TALENT ATTRACTION PROGRAMME
The talent attraction programme aims to promote and support the recruitment of highly qualified people who are living and working outside the Basque Country, so that they can continue their professional careers in Bizkaia.
The subsidy will amount to 20% in 2024 and 20% in 2025 of the gross annual salary, which features in the contract or in the firm permanent contract proposal provided in the application, up to a maximum of 30,000 euros.
Contracted professionals must satisfy the following requirements:
- Have a university degree.
- Have a legal full- or part-time work contract, on the condition that the working relationship with the applicant company initiated after the 1st January 2023, and this must be of the nature of a permanent contract by the 30th September 2024.
- Or have a firm permanent contract proposal signed by both the applicant company and the person to be contracted. In any case, the permanent work contract must be fully legalised by the 30th September 2024.
- The legalised work contract or the firm permanent contract proposal must have a minimum annual gross salary of 40,000 euros.
- Have a minimum of 5 years’ work experience in the field for which the person has been contracted and in which s/he will carry out his/her professional activities.
- Have carried out his/her professional activity outside the Basque Country Autonomous Region for at least 36 of the last 48 months prior to the contract date.
Application period: 8th April 2024 – 13th September 2024
Talent Attraction Programme 2024
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN STRATEGIC SECTORS
The aim of the professional development programme in strategic sectors is to support the qualified training of graduates in strategic sectors for Bizkaia in order to cover the need of the province’s companies for the highly qualified professionals who are required to face the challenges of the future.
The amount of the grant will be 75% of the registration fee up to a maximum subsidy of 3,000 euros.
The beneficiaries must fulfil the following requirements:
- To be from Bizkaia or to be registered as a resident of Bizkaia (since at least 01/01/2022).
- Persons who have graduated in the academic years 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024.
- Up to thirty years of age.
- Register for all of the credits of the course to do a specialist Master’s Degree in the field of energy transition or science and quantum technology taught by a university of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country for the academic year 2024-2025.
List of Master’s Degrees to be financed:
- Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Hydrogen Technology
- Master’s Degree in Industrial Automation, Electronics and Control
- Master’s Degree in Control Engineering, Automation and Robotics
- Master’s Degree in Integration of Renewable Energies in the Electricity System
- Master’s Degree in Advanced Electronic Systems
- Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Energy Storage and Conversion Materials
- Master’s Degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering
- Master’s Degree in Smart Grids Control and Distributed Generation
- Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering. Energy Efficiency
- Master’s Degree in Quantum Science and Technology
Application period: 10th September 2024 – 30th September 2024
Professional Development Programme in Strategic Sectors 2024
