DigiPen, colloquially known as “the videogame university”, has kicked off the 2018-2019 academic year at its new location in Zorrotzaurre. The centre, which has moved from its previous facilities in Zierbena where it had been delivering specialised courses for eight years, begins the new academic year with a student body of 200 from fourteen different countries on the two undergraduate degree courses it offers. DigiPen has a 100% graduate employment rate and the centre has set itself a growth target of 75% in the first three years at its new premises. DigiPen has leased facilities in the former Beta 1…

The Contract Award Board has concluded demolition work on the unoccupied industrial buildings located at Punta Norte on the future island of Zorrotzaurre, an area that comprises over 100,000 sq.m. of land.

The urbanization works included in Phase A of Zorrotzaurre Integrated Action 1 Execution Unit 1, corresponding to the right bank of Deusto canal,are now under way. These works will give rise to a continuous pedestrian walkway measuring two kilometres along the bank of the Deusto canal, which will run from Elorrieta island to calle Ballets Olaeta street, where urbanization works have just concluded.