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…