Public exposition of the Urbanisation Project of the Execution Unit 1 of the Integrated Action 1 of Zorrotzaurre, which was initially approved on July 27th 2016, finished on September 30th with 21 allegations presented. Of those, 4 were presented by municipal groups, 3 by companies, 2 by neighbours’ associations, 1 by a sectorial association and the 11 remaining ones by members of the public. The Contracting Board, once they have analysed the documents, will draw up a report for the Bilbao City Council with their recommendations for acceptance or not of the different proposals presented. The City Council will take…

The European Commission has awarded a 4.6 million euro grant to the Bilbao City Council and a group of private investors to set up a complex dedicated to training and entrepreneurship in Zorrotzaurre. The project is called AS Fabrik and it will be a digital business incubator. The partners of the City Hall for this project are: Corporación Mondragon; MIK (Mondragon Innovation & Knowledge); GAIA; Orkestra; EIKEN; IDOM and Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Engineering and Business Faculties). As Fabrik was chosen along with 17 other proposals out of a total of 378 projects presented to the European Commission. The EU authorities will…

The Official State Gazette published last Monday, a resolution of the Finance and Public Administrations Ministry informing of the concession of support from the first round of investment by the ERDF 2014-2020 for integrated sustainable urban development projects. Among the grants awarded are 9.289 million euros for this type of projects to be carried out under the renewal activities in Zorrotzaurre. The approved Zorrotzaurre plan, jointly drawn up by the Bilbao City Hall, the Management Commission and Surbisa, the city hall-owned company has a budget of 53.6 million euros and will run for the period 2016 – 2020. It is…