The Basque Seapower consortium will develop innovative solutions for the foundations, towers and auxiliary systems of high power offshore wind turbines

12 December, 2019

Seapower has a budget of €5.3M for 3 years, supported by the Basque Government's Hazitek Programme. The project kicked off in 2019 with a consortium made up of 10 leading Basque companies from the offshore wind power sector, headed by the engineering firm, Sener.   The Seapower project held its second Consortium Meeting on 4th December at the headquarters of Sener in Getxo (Bizkaia) with the aim of continuing to promote the collaborative research and development of technologies



Ingeteam inaugurates new plant in Spain

9 December, 2019

  The plant is to manufacture power converters for use in the railway traction, mining, shipbuilding and steel industries, in power generation, in electricity grids and in power storage. Power converters are key items of electronic equipment in the energy conversion that connect to rotary electrical equipment and to the power grid. They contribute to decarbonise industry and bring about the energy transition.   This morning Ingeteam has inaugurated a power electronics and control equipment manufacturing plant in



VIVEbiotech makes a capital increase of 3.5 million euros to complete its expansion plan

2 October, 2019

  VIVEbiotech has carried out a capital increase of 3.5 million euros to finance its strategic plan, which highlights the construction of three new cleanrooms and the incorporation of new equipment that will multiply its production capacity substantially. VIVEbiotech will now have 600 square meters of clean rooms with 8 nanobioreactors and two large capacity bioreactors. Thanks to this growth, in 2021 VIVEbiotech will be able to produce lentiviral vectors for advanced clinical trials in



S-Parcs European Project: news models of sustanainable energy cooperation and services in industrial parks

25 September, 2019

  S-PARCS presents a sound concept for reducing energy costs and energy consumption in industrial parks, while, at the same time, increasing renewable on-site energy production. The pre-assessment of seven 'Lighthouse Parks' in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria, which participate in the study, has shown a high potential for joint energy actions, many of which are transferrable to the community of S-PARCS Followers in the UK, Sweden, Turkey, Russia, Italy,



The second edition of the F2P Campus in Vitoria-Gasteiz begins

19 July, 2019 f2p Campus araba alava gasteiz vitoria

After months of preparation, today the second edition of the F2P Campus, the world’s first campus focused on the development of free-to-play video games, finally begins in Vitoria-Gasteiz. The second edition of the F2P Campus started this morning at the Artium Museum in Vitoria-Gasteiz with an opening ceremony attended by Gorka Urtaran, Mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz; Ramiro González Vicente, Deputy General of Álava; and Bingen Zupiria, the Basque Government’s Minister of Culture and Linguistic Policy, along with the participating



InterMundos – make it global: the difference between “good content” and “great content”

12 July, 2019 Hristo-Ognyanov make it global

Bulgarian by birth, he was raised in the “country of roses” until he was a teenager and then studied abroad. Hristo Ognyanov Velikov majored in Translation and Interpreting and rounded out his education with a Master’s in translation and localisation of software and new technologies. This knowledge gave him access to the corporate world, where he also gained experience managing projects. Bilbao Ekintza gave him the opportunity to start his own business in the Basque Country. As a result, he now collaborates with companies like


VIVEbiotech receives an issue notification of the patent grant for the LENTISOMA technology from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

17 June, 2019

LENTISOMA is a new generation lentiviral vector whose most outstanding feature is related to the fact that it is not inserted into the genome of cells.   VIVEbiotech, a company specialized in the production of lentiviral vectors for their use in gene therapy, has received notification of the patent grant for the LENTISOMA technology from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.   LENTISOMA is a new generation lentiviral vector whose most outstanding feature is



SPRI presents the digital transformation of Basque industry and its position in global value chains to the United Nations

16 April, 2019

  Cristina Oyón, Head of Strategic Initiatives at SPRI, has presented the results of the survey on the digital transformation of Basque Industry at the headquarters of the UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation) in Vienna   The results of the survey, in which around 500 Basque companies participated, form part of the next edition of the Industrial Development Report, IDR 2020 , the emblematic biannual publication issued by the UNIDO, which covers the latest developments and tendencies in the field of



A prestigious management training centre opens its first European office in Bilbao

15 April, 2019

  The David J. Anderson School of Management targets the training of managers to increase the competitiveness of their companies using the Kanban method   The David J. Anderson School of Management is a training centre for managers, which is known internationally for offering business management and leadership development programmes using the Kanban method, developed by David J. Anderson.   The training centre in Bilbao, which was opened on 11th April,



Aided by the SPRI Group, the British company Jasun Envirocare will open a manufacturing plant in Enkarterri to operate in southern Europe

3 April, 2019

  16 new foreign companies were established and another 22 already existing companies reinvested in Euskadi, the Basque Country, in 2018, creating 644 jobs and investing €136.3M through the “Invest in the Basque Country” strategy.   The British company Jasun Envirocare, one of the largest manufacturers of air filters in the United Kingdom, will open Jasun Filtración S.L. in Enkarterri, tanks to the negotiations carried out by the SPRI Group



In Cannes, the SPRI Group General Manager receives the Financial Times award for the Basque Country as an attractive region for foreign investment

12 March, 2019

  Four aspects of the Invest in the Basque Country strategy of the SPRI Group and the Basque Government have received awards   Alex Arriola, SPRI Group General Manager, today collected the award given in Cannes by the fDi Intelligence Magazine, part of the Financial Times Group, recognising once again that the Basque Country is an attractive territory for foreign investment. On this occasion, four aspects of the Invest in the



Columbus launches a €70 million fund for biomedicine

28 January, 2019

With the new investment fund, the managers plan to build two new plants in San Sebastian   Columbus Venture Partners already has its second fund ready to invest in companies related to health sciences. It is in the registration phase at the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) and will be operational shortly. The expected volume is 70 million euros, reports Expansión .   According to Columbus executives, this new fund plans to provide continuity to the activity initiated by the previous one, which has five



The Financial Times continues to rank the Basque Country as an attractive region for foreign investments

26 January, 2019

This is the third consecutive year that the prestigious specialised publication has recognised the efforts of “Invest in the Basque Country”   The fDi Intelligence Magazine, part of the Financial Times Group, has once more recognised the Basque Country as an attractive region for foreign investment by receiving awards for four aspects of the SPRI Group and the Basque Government’s “Invest in the Basque Country” strategy. More specifically, these are support for established companies, the public-private Bind 4.0 acceleration



Glossary. The new words of the industry 4.0

5 July, 2018

[pdf-embedder url="https://www.spri.eus/archivos/2018/07/pdf/Glosario_EN_2018-1.pdf" title="Glosario_EN_2018"] Index: 1.- Additive Manufacturing 2.- Advanced Manufacturing 3.- Augmented Reality 4.- Basque Cyber Security Centre 5.- Basque Digital Innovation Hub 6.- Basque Industry 4.0 7.- Big Data 8.- Blockchain 9.- Cloud Computing 10.- Collaborative Robotics 11.- Computer Vision 12.- Cyber Security 13.- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) 14.- Digital Innovation Hub 15.- Industrial Ecosystems 16.- Industry 4.0 17.- RIS3 18.-



Bind 4.0’s startup Hupi opens office in the Basque Country

4 June, 2018

"The Bind 4.0 program triggered this development and has been a tremendous accelerator for us. The diversity of the events organized gave us a precise view of the state of the market, as well as a idea of its appetite for these new technologies", explains founders Romain Roquefère and Vincent Moreno, who are already searching local talents in San Sebastian. Having its own office, Hupi expects sales processes to speed up, while having access to a larger spectrum of business problems that can expand its portfolio of solutions based on