European studies state that a growing number of high qualified professionals are on the move as DUAL CAREER COUPLES. This geographical mobility influences their personal and professional lives. The agents have to address this fact if they want to attract talented high qualified professionals.
The attractiveness of these institutions is no longer defined just by the excellent projects, but by additional sociocultural integration factors and most of all career prospects for both partners to develop a life project in common. This will influence our country to maximise the economy based in knowledge, innovation and creativity.
Bizkaia:talent is aware of this gap. Thus, it launches the BE BASQUE DUAL CAREER Centre, whose aims are, on the one hand:
Analyse, Guide, in a personal way, the Relocation Service users’ couples, concerning the labour & sociocultural integration in terms of Hiring, Entrepreneurship, Voluntarism;
Intermediate with the agents of the system and our Network;
Inform about Funding and Grants;
Inform about activities and events.
, and on the other hand,
Support organisations as a Negotiation Tool to attract and retain the required Talent;
Update our Data Base to find specific labour profiles to back up the Basque organisations.
To carry out such a strategy, the support of the ecosystem agents is essential. Therefore, a growing Network of different agents has been constituted to guide the couples of academics and high qualified professionals in their labour and sociocultural integration in our country.
To receive this personalised service, it is necessary to register here.
1. Network Members
Human Resource Consulting firm focused on employment: Guiding, labour market insertion and Professional change. It is also included within the consultancy for the personal and professional success. Collaboration with private individuals, companies, training centres and public entities in programmes, plans and actions to find solutions in the employment and skills area for the professional improvement.
Public society which contributes to the economy growth and the employment creation, developing innovative entrepreneurship projects: new products and services, new markets, innovation, internationalisation. It has its own network of incubators (Kabi 612, Design kabi, KBi DigitalKBi Digital, ZitekProyecto ZITEK: university incubators, 3 at UPV/EHU and DeustokabiDeustoKabi) for the starting of business projects, and it also offers the resources of the Territorial and Economic Development Department which provide business location and funding, as well as the ones of other public and private entities: Azpiegiturak , Seed Capital, private partners… Apart from that it is member of entities, associations, forums and national and international networks, such as the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN), association with more than 150 European Innovation and Business Centres; EENBASQUE – Basque Enterprise Europe Network or ICSID, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
Bolunta is an agency for the voluntary service and social participation, a new step forward in the long trajectory of social action taken by the three organisations (Diputación Foral de Bizkaia (Vizcaya Regional Council), Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa and the Fundación EDE) and the reaffirmation of their commitment to associative participation. It officially came into being in January 2002 to help with the development and improvement of the Vizcaya social movement. It offers a full and quality service, free of charge,to non-profit making organisations, volunteers and anyone interested in starting out in volunteer work. It does this by making available all its facilities and a professional team with broad experience in the world of social involvement. Ganbara associative space is a new service offered by bolunta which came into being to encourage the creation of social fabric and stimulate the work of charity organisations in Bizkaia.
Its specific objectives are:
to promote charity and volunteer work in Vizcaya;
to facilitate infrastructures, technical resources and services for the management of social organisations;
to promote network activity and encourage synergies in resources and services in the social field
Founded in 1994, Campo & Ochandiano is an independent, human resources consulting services company with a high level of specialisation in the search for, recruitment and selection of executives, middle management and qualified professionals. Its team of professionals has an in-depth knowledge of companies and institutions as well as of the professional requirements of each sector, ranging from industry, engineering, energy, banking, insurance, consumption, large-scale distribution, health, biotechnology, services to transport, communications, leisure/culture and public administration.
The Bizkaia Confederation of Commerce Bizkaia (CECOBI), with more than 1,500 companies, is a non-profit business federation, integrated by associations and groups (21 trade associations and 19zonal ones) whose aim is to defend the interests of the commerce entrepreneurs, wholesales and retails, in Bizkaia.
CECOBI, representing the commerce in Bizkaia, is integrated in:
Bizkaia:
– Confederación Empresarial de Bizkaia-Bizkaiko Enpresarien Konfederazioa (CEBEK).
Basque Country:
– Confederación Vasca de Comercio (EUSKOMER).
– Confederación Empresarial Vasca (CONFEBASK).
Spanish State:
– Confederación Española de Comercio (CEC).
– Confederación Empresarial de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (CEPYME).
– Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales (CEOE)
The Professional Association of engineers of roads, channels and ports is a corporation of public law which aim is to contribute to the development and progress of the Society through the improvement and system of the professional exercise of the Roads, Channels and Ports Engineers.
The number of Roads, Channels and Ports Engineers associated in the Basque Country is 930.
The Basque Association of Economists is the benchmark of the profession, where more than 5,000 collegiate and collegial activities of different sectors and work within a collaborative network for the professional development and social and economic transformation of our environment.
Icaza Colaborando S2M is a new Project created in 2015. Taking into consideration the concepts of the “collaborative economy”, it offers a new space (digital and physical) of collaboration for professionals and organisations. It is the first space “Seats2meet” which has been set up a t a national level with the aim of offering coworking services (social or financial capital), meeting rooms (social or financial capital), private offices and events.
The University of Deusto first took part in the Erasmus Programme in the nineties, an initiative that involves around 400 undergraduate students each year, including incoming and outcoming students in the European Union. In the last few years, other programmes such as the Erasmus Mundus programme have joined this long-standing programme, which has considerably increased the number of students and is a quality hallmark awarded by the European Union to the best European postgraduate programmes. Deusto has 8 Erasmus Mundus Master Programmes. At present, 15 per cent of students at Deusto are international students.
The objective of this association (Colegio Oficial de Químicos e Ingenieros Químicos del País Vasco, Burgos y La Rioja) of chemistries and chemistry engineers is to defend the professional interests and fulfill the needs of the associated members, to promote the union spirit among the interested in Chemistry Science and promote the advance of its discipline at an academy and industry level, being responsible with the people, the resources, and the environment.
Ieteam is a Basque consultant working in the field of internationalization, strategy, selecting people, advice to sports teams and support to coaches and athletes, and support of Business Angels.
EmakumeEkin is an association of women entrepreneurs who supports and promotes entrepreneurship initiated by women.
Parque Tecnologico S.A., where 219 companies are installed, is a public ompany attached to the Basque Government’s Department of Industry, Commerce and Tourism. Its partners are the: Society for Competitive Transformation, Spri ; Provincial Council of Bizkaia ; Azpiegiturak ; and University of the Basque Country ; and Zamudio Town Council.
The companies integrated in this technology complex have an unbeatable provision of constantly evolving and up-dated services: from all types of general services, such as security, maintenance, hotel and catering and leisure, to the most advanced professional services for businesses in telecommunications, support and promotion of research, development and innovation, cooperation, specialised training and incubation of new technology based companies.
2. BE BASQUE DUAL CAREER CENTRE meetings
II Networking for Women Entrepreneurs: “Network and Alliance of Women entrepreneurs”.
Date: 25th June 2015 Venue: Sala Blanca de Beaz Bizkaia
Some couples attented this workshop about female entrepreneurs networking, within the mentoring programme promoted by Diputación Foral de Bizkaia (Provincial Government) and coordinated by Bilbao Metrópoli 30.
This workshop let them meet other entrepreneurs to generate synergies, increase sales, Alliance creation,…, and above all, to know and back up each other in this difficult process of entrepreneurship.
BE BASQUE DUAL CAREER CENTRE STARTING POINT
Date: 29th May 2015 Venue: bizkaia:talent
Bizkaia:talent is aware of the importance of guiding the couples of academics and high qualified personnel in their sociocultural & labour integration, as well as networking. Thus, within the Relocation Service, through the Be Basque DUAL CAREER Centre, we try to provide practical information, contacts and support these couples to develop their own professional Career, training, find a job, start a business (entrepreneurship) or voluntarism.
Goals of the meeting:
Proposal of the Network
Discuss needs, barriers and points of view with them
All the couples of the users of the Relocation Service were invited. They were so satisfied with the meeting that they decided to create their own network to be connected through a cross-platform mobile messaging app.
The Be Basque Dual Career Centre promoted by bizkaia talent visits the facilities of ICAZA COLABORANDO, a member of the Network, in Bilbao
Last Monday, 30 November, as an activity within the recently-launched Be Basque Dual Career Centre, about ten international professionals visited the facilities of ICAZA COLABORANDO S2M BILBAO, one of the members of the Network which support and are engaged in this initiative.
The Be Basque Dual Career Centre is a service which offers personalized advice and guidance to highly-qualified staff, their partners and relatives so as to achieve their adequate professional and personal integration in our country.
During the visit, Jose Angel Icaza, founder of Icaza Colaborando, explained his new project to those present. It is a co-working social space aimed at establishing a network of collaborators-friends who help create an atmosphere of collaboration, innovation and creativity based on the social economy. They also discussed the importance of being a member of the Seats 2 Meet mesh which provides them with an international character which enables them to extend their contacts and generate “serendipity”.
Date: 25th June 2015
Date: 29th May 2015
