Santa Agueda (Agate Deuna, in Basque) is a deep-rooted tradition in the Basque Country that is celebrated every February 4, the eve of this blessed woman. The “cuadrillas” (groups of friends) take to the streets to sing the songs of the day, dressed in “baserritarrak” (typical rural clothing) and with the “makila” (wooden stick) in…
The Unceta Group has the support and security provided by more than 450 leading suppliers in Europe; the main European manufacturing companies collaborate with the firm from Elgoibar, Gipuzkoa. providing specialized knowledge and a wide variety of products that allows them to remain at the forefront of service and quality. Unceta successfully overcomes the generational…
GKN Driveline Zumaia is a Basque enterprise that belongs to the multinational GKN which manufactures parts of transmission for automotive. The Basque company is the leader worldwide, as 3 million of the 78 million cars that travel in the world have this component from the Basque company. In 1940, Eibar (a town next to Zumaia)…
The “Estia Berri” Campus in Bidarte was inaugurated on Tuesday by Jean-René Etchegaray, President of the Basque Country Community, Alain Rousset, President of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and André Garreta, President of the Basque Country CCI. A partnership project at the service of the development of higher education here, in the Basque Country. Immaculate concrete, curved…
The initiative proposed by Hobeen has been selected among 2.170 enterprises worldwide that are currently fighting for creating a positive impact both on people and planet. The basque undertaking is once again in luck, this time thanks to the new achievement of the enterprise Hobeen, whose technology has been positively valued in North America. Indeed,…
The Basque House (Euskal Etxea) of North-Queensland and the Basque people of Trebonne reunited in a beautiful and moving act for the inauguration of the renewed fronton of pelota. The history of the fronton goes back to the era of the migration, and was inaugurated for the first time on the 28th of November of…
On February 9th the first session in the national level regarding gender, communication and science will take place in Bilbao, in the University of the Basque Country (Bizkaia Aretoa hall). The session consists of debating how gender issues are conveyed and perceived and their implications in the fields of environment, health, innovation and science in…
Researchers from the University of the Basque Country have recently attended the second meeting of the CAREME network (Control of Antibiotic Resistance in the Mediterranean Area: Global Solutions for a Global Threat), an international network dedicated to research in the city of Alexandria (Egypt). of resistance to antibiotics. The network, directed by professors Lucía Gallego,…