28 April 2016
April 28 saw the second session of the presentation of the project “Regional strategy for the construction of a competitive and territorially balanced Bizkaia”, in Durango. Mari Jose Aranguren, director general of Orkestra and Imanol Pradales, Counsellor for Territorial and Economic Development of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, presided over the working session in which they explained to local development agents of this territory the objectives of the project.
In order to address the diversity of the entire Vizcayan territory, the project will work on county strategy by dividing the province into four zones which present common challenges in terms of their competitive performance and which will be comprised as follows:
- Northern zone: Txorierri, Mungialdea, Right Bank and Uribekosta
- Eastern zone: Busturia, Lea-Artibai and Durangaldea
- Southern zone: Nerbioi-Ibaizabal and Arratia
- Western zone: Ezkerraldea, Meatzaldea and Enkarterri
The Provincial Council and Orkestra will work together with local development agents of the territory, in order to construct an appropriate strategy that will lead to an increase in Bizkaia’s competitiveness whilst taking into account its diversity
The first meeting was held on April 8 in Zamudio for the northern zone and today it was the turn of the eastern zone of Bizkaia. In the working session, a sizeable and diverse group of agents from Busturialdea, Lea-Artibai and Durangaldea defined key challenges in their respective regions, to be worked upon throughout the project. In the coming weeks, similar working sessions will be held with agents from the southern and western zones.
In each of these zones there will be a process of collaborative work between Orkestra, the department of Territorial and Economic Development and its development agents to establish a permanent channel of communication, define the challenges within the zone and form a regional work team that will transform those challenges into proposals, projects and programmes of specific action.
The project aims to cover aspects related to innovation, investment, industrial land, connectivity and communication infrastructures, internationalization and entrepreneurship.
