Our targets
We provide our services to highly qualified individuals and organisations. Bizkaia:talent helps companies, technology centres, universities, associations, research centres and teams, and foundations based or with workplaces in the Historic Territory of Bizkaia that have hired or want to recruit highly qualified professionals. Some of our services, like networking, are also targeted at organisations whose workplaces are located in other Basque Historic Territories.
Regarding individuals, we provide assistance to experts in technology, researchers, professors and professionals working in companies, universities or other organisations. We also give support to highly qualified professionals and researchers who come to work as collaborators, consultants or experts in innovative projects developed in the Historic Territory.
Areas of strategic interest
The Basque science, technology and innovation system is aimed at fulfilling the needs of Basque industries, thus improving business competitiveness. This is the reason why the highly qualified professionals and researchers targeted by bizkaia:talent should ideally work in one of these strategic areas to the Basque Country:
1. Science & technology
- Aeronautics
- Automotive industry
- Aerospace engineering
- Biomedicine
- Biotechnology
- Eco-innovation: in particular, environmental science and technology, meteorology and climatology
- Energy: in particular, the areas of energy distribution, quality, efficiency and saving; integration of renewable energy, wind, solar and wave power; production of biofuel, fuel and hydrogen fuel cells
- Electronics and electricity
- New materials: in particular, steel, metal mechanics, electronic materials and biomaterials
- Resources and technologies in the fishing and agri-food industry
- Telecommunications
2. Information society
- Virtual reality
- Network generation and evolution
- Language and information engineering
- Environmental intelligence: in particular, wireless sensor networks (WSN), wireless communication networks, network security, information, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, content management technologies, biometric technology, human-device interfaces, semantic technologies and assistive technology
- Digital business expansion
- New technologies
