The working groups of the Basque Industry Platform met today at the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council to review this year’s projects

The headquarters of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa hosted a meeting of the working groups of the INDEUS Basque Industry Platform this morning. At the meeting, which was attended by around 40 representatives from the platform’s member companies, Amaia Arregi Agirre, Director-General for Economic Promotion and Garbiñe Mendizabal, Director-General for Linguistic Equality at the Provincial Council, welcomed those present and went on to present Gipuzkoa’s Master Plan for Language Policy in the Workplace.

And this was not the only presentation at the meeting:

• Gehi Ikerketa: The initiative’s organiser, EMUN, outlined the details of this study, which analysed the contribution of Basque language plans to business competitiveness.
• Euskorpora: the strategic public partnership for the digital Basque language, has set itself the objective of identifying the digital tools that are essential for businesses and ensuring that these tools can be developed in Basque.
• Postgraduate course in Digital Transformation: The University of the Basque Country (EHU) and the University of the East of Spain (UEU) have jointly organised a postgraduate course to train Basque-speaking professionals in the specialisms required by businesses, specifically in artificial intelligence, security, etc.

Furthermore, today’s meeting was used as an opportunity to review the projects and challenges that the platform’s members have set themselves for 2026. These include strengthening Indeus’s communication strategy, a community-based strategy for recruiting new staff, the dissemination of best practice and the provision of consultancy services in Basque, as well as language technologies.

The meeting was attended by the latest member to join INDEUS: UZEI, the Centre for Terminology and Lexicography, which has become a member of the platform’s Cooperation Network.

INDEUS Industriaren Euskal Plataforma is the Basque Industry Platform, set up by SPRI, the Basque Business Development Agency, in collaboration with the Basque Energy Agency, the Vice-Ministry of Language Policy of the Basque Government and the Provincial Councils of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. Its goal is to support the competitiveness of Basque companies by increasing the presence of the Basque language in the industrial field of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.