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Appropriate days to take stock. Twelve months that they have given to open new topics and insist on others. A time of resistance to the unappealable tide of social networks, which make any attempt to let things rest fleeting. A topic that I have not been able to avoid dealing with lately, almost like nostalgic…
The activist and veterinarian fromInternational Animal Rescue – Indonesia, Karmele Llano sends us the following idea.Karmele has spent more than 10 years in Indonesia fighting for animal rights, for the protection of the last orangutans on the planet -and for other lesser-known species-, but also fighting against the irrational deforestation of primary forest that is…
IDEA FOR EUSKADI #19 for a Letter of Basque Citizenship by Carlos Cuerda The permanent evolution of a society requires establishing and universalizing within it a series of principles, rights and citizen values about which neither the Statute nor the Constitution say anything. And it is here where in the Basque Country so much remains…
The Statute of Gernika and the Spanish Constitution are, today, the basic rules that sustain the political reality of the Basque Country. They define their powers, their organization model, their bodies of democratic representation and government, their borders and their symbols. All of this is of the utmost importance, without a doubt, for the construction…
I am 34 years old. I invested the first 26 in training, two careers, one of them abroad, English, French and even a little bit of German, internships and scholarships to complete the training and directly to the job market. Later, the private company, and as a young man wanting to conquer the world, I…
IDEA FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY #17: MUGA Project. Research at the frontier of knowledge. The objective is to increase basic research five times in areas of strategic interest for the future of Basque Society. Endow an open fund that invests in excellent research projects selected on the basis of merit and based on their social…
IDEA FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY #15: Volunteers for education. Make it easier for each primary school teacher to have at least one “volunteer” and trained assistant to support them in their teaching tasks and improve the quality of the education provided. Volunteers who can, without substituting in any case the functions of teaching professionals: •…
IDEA FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY #16: Take advantage of immigrant talent. A great resource that we are not able to take full advantage of socially are the thousands of immigrants who come to share their lives with us. Some are underemployed because the training they received in their country of origin is not formally recognized.…
IDEA FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY #18: A Good Bank In order to multiply investment in energy efficiency and renewable projects. It would be a public-private bank that would lend to invest in clean projects. The funds would come: • From the public sector, which would concentrate a good part of the aid that currently exists…
The idea comes to us from our expert in technology policy, Iñaki Barredo, and proposes co-investing in talent: IDEA FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY #14: The objective is to multiply by 10 the number of Basque postgraduate and doctoral students at the best universities in the world. To this end, they are given access to credit…