COMPANIES OF GIPUZKOA WILL RECEIVE 35 MILLION EUROS FOR THEIR INTERNAZIONALITATION

SabadellGuipuzcoano savings bank and Adegi (Gipuzkoa’s employers association) credit facilities will give a boost to 19 proyects.

SabadellGuipuzcoano and Adegi have gave 35 million to 19 proyects of internazionalitation of different companies of Gipuzkoa. Both entities renew last september the agreement they signed one year ago. Last’s years agreement was based on the boost and development of Gipuzkoan companies outside the Basque Country.

Last year’s agreement was a good new for the basque companies located in Gipuzkoa. SabadellGuipuzcoano gave to the companies more than 120 million euros, to promote one of the companies key factor in competitivity, said Adegi.

19 proyects have been funded. 17 of them are operations of 33 million on Exporta line and the other 2 on Implanta line, which receive 1.9 million for its commercial or productive implantation in countries like Brazil or Angola. 53 proyects of Gipuzkoan companies received 102 of funding during the first year of the agreement. This was a good new because it was 50% more than the initial forecast.


Erik Rios Salazar

Dresser-Rand buys the Basque company Guascor

The North American company has acquired 100 % of the Basque group Guascor, dedicated to the supply and exploitation of equipments and energetic and shipping facilities, in an operation of approximately 500 million Euros.

With this operation, Basque Country loses the control on one of his principal industrial companies. Guascor is between 50 principal Basque signatures for volume of turnover, with a few annual sales that they overcome the 300 milones of Euros, an important volume but to many distance of his buyer, who deposited last year 1.425 millions of Euros.

Dresser-Rand dedicated to the development and manufacture of capital goods for the sectors of the gas, oil, petrochemical and industry, possess in his board of directors the president of Guascor, Joseba Grajales.
Once incorporated into the new group, Guascor will turn into the World Center of Excellence into the area of sustainable solutions into the sectors of environment and new energies of Dresser-Rand with the current management team.

This strategic operation, according to Guascor, strengthens his managerial project and makes possible an intense and increasing internationalization and penetration new markets. In addition, it will facilitate the development of new products and services and the integration in an extensive commercial network, of technological centers and units of research and development. With presence in more than 140 countries in five continents. The impact of this operation in Basque Country will be translated, at once, in an increase of Dresser-Rand's manufacturing activities, with repercussion in the network of suppliers and the managerial fabric of the country, as has announced the Basque company.

On the other hand the heads of Guascor and Dresser-Rand claimed that there is no risk of relocation of factories that the group has in the Basque Country

María José González

The Internacional day of Basque language

1970an, Euskara batua sortu zen, Euskal herrian bizi diren biztanle guztiek elkar ulertzeko.
Esan dezakegu, nahiz eta euskara batua eduki, oraindikan Euskal Herriko herri desberdinetan ez dela erabiltzen euskara batua, ohituragatik, beste euskara batean aritzen direlako.
Lehen debekatuta zegoen euskaraz hitzegitea ikastoletan, baino gaur egun ``bultzatuak´´ sentitzen gera ohitura ez galtzearren. Horretarako atzerritarrei laguntzak ematen diete euskara bultzatua izan dadin, euskal hizkuntz bezela hazi dadila.


In 1970, a common Basque language was created for all the people from the Basque Country to understand each other.
In the towns they use different dialects of Basque even though they have a common one.
Some years ago it was forbidden to talk in Basque, but nowadays in schools they help you to start speaking in Basque. That's why foreign people are learning to speak Basque now.


Maria Carmen, Maria Jose y Borja

CHILLIDA - LEKU MUSEUM

The museum Chillida - Leku has requested the process of regulation of temporary employment (ERE) and has reminded us of the closing of the museum, from January 1st 2011, as was reported in a communique.

Chillida's family have made the decision, being motivated by the situation of "deficit appellant" that, "as a practical totality" in museums of artistic work, the museum suffers and which has been aggravated by the general economic crisis, "shooting the deficit numbers to unattainable levels from the perspective of a private initiative.

Nevertheless, it has been indicated that they will continue to carry out all those parallel activities that get the public out of a jam themselves, with independence of the closing, since they are the conservation of the art heritage.

Mary and Cynthia

The Bank of Spain has closed the branch in San Sebastian on May 31

The Bank of Spain has closed the branch in San Sebastian on May 31

The Bank of Spain announced yesterday the closure of seven of its 22 branches, one of which is located on Garibay's Road, San Sebastian (see DV 9 August), May 31, 2011 with the aim of "improving efficiency" of financial and human resources available.
Also they are going to close the offices of Ceuta, Melilla, Logroño, Pamplona, Santander and Toledo, which are those with less activity, according to the Bank of Spain.
Therefore, from June 2011 the entity will have fifteen branches: Alicante, Badajoz, Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Las Palmas, Malaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma, Seville, Tenerife, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza.
The activity of the seven branches will close accounts for only 9.3% of the total network because its operations with credit institutions are very restricted, as well as individuals who have alternative channels, or postal mail Internet-to steps such as buying debt or making complaints against banks. The closures will not involve layoffs, as the 58 people working in seven offices may request a transfer to other offices.

BORJA ETXEBERRIA

The Prices of the damages

Damages in Donostia amounted to over one million euros. The worst hit area was the Paseo Nuevo, where they will have to spend 701,500 euros.
Damage from the storm that struck the Bay of Biscay on Tuesday will cost the City of San Sebastian alot of money. To repair everything that was swept away by the huge waves that hit the city will cost, in a first estimate and regardless of VAT, 1,041,400 euros. Far from definitive, this will increase even more because it still lacks destruction of value, as those who have suffered some concession units.

As always, much of that money will go to the Paseo Nuevo, which seems to have suffered from a battle between nature and man's work. Retrieving the ride will cost at least 701,500 euros. Of this, most will cover the traditional tunnel that the sea created during the great storm. This will cost around 400,000 euros, although it is unclear whether through contributions or the City Council Building.

The restoration of the previous tunnel, which was created during the storm of March 11, 2008 and on this occasion has withstood the effects of waves, cost 100,000 euros. The amounts are also high at the time of budgeting the necessary work to repair the pavement (75,000 euros), remove the lumps of rock (50,000), replace 30 banks (25,000) and tidy up the area (25,000).
These figures do not represent the cost of repair of the Paseo Nuevo only. In order for San Sebastian to be completely repaired, it must also replace the bins (7,000 euros), install temporary fencing (7,000), restore the balustrade (6,500), fix the lighting equipment (5,000) and replace the coping destroyed or wall coverings (1,000). In addition, repair the toilets, which has been quite unfavorably, it will cost 17,000 euros. And there is still an extensive evaluation of sea walls and promenade, as well as the slopes.
In Ondarreta, repairing the beach cabins will about 102,800 euros, in the absence of a more detailed study. In the same area, rebuilding the stone wall and playground, and the relocation of benches and bins will cost 34,000 euros.
Santa Clara
Santa Clara Island is under revision, but the temporal experience of 2008 suggests that municipal technicians will be needed to clean up, costing 100,000 euros. In another symbolic part, the Peine del Viento, 41,000 euros will be needed to rebuild the platform destroyed by the waves, reposition the batter and replace the pavement.
In the Zurriola, remove the sand in the hallway outside the cabins, clean the inside and replace the windows; 14,800 euros, while replacing seven banks at the pier will cost 3,000, to replace the broken rail bridge Zurriola - 1,000 euros. A somewhat smaller amount, 17,500 euros, will repair the toilets in the area of the Kursaal. And much less the amount necessary to relocate the rail on the bridge of María Cristina (3,000 euros), replace the balustrade of the Paseo de Salamanca and Aldamar (2,000 euros) and repair the coping on the Paseo de France (1,000).

BORJA ETXEBERRIA

20,000 years of lives lost in laboral accidents in Euskadi

An study of Osalan notes that young men and men who are more than 45 years have the most risk of dying an accident related to work.
Every time this figure is going down and it shows that the more common causes are factors like the sector, the age, the sex and the contract type.
To work in the primary sector is the most dangerous. In this sector the risk of having a fatal or serious accident is 2,5 times more in the construction. And 6 times more in the service sector or in industry.
Anyway men who are more than 45 years have the best claims in all the sectors.
Be careful boys because you are in danger!!!

Saioa

Which is the perfect house in Spain?

The best house for Spanish people nowadays is a house of 90 square meters with 3 rooms and a maximum price of 150.000€.

Catalonia, Basque Country and Madrid are the autonomous communities in which the propietor is ready to do a higher investment in the three cases paying more than 345.000 €.

The cheapest houses in Spain we can find in Andalusia, Cantabria, Galicia and the Canary Islands, where the prices are around 120.000 and 135.000 Euros, and in Murcia, where the demand is for houses with two floors between 105.000 and 120.000 Euros.

The houses most rented are rounding 400-500 € and the most rented houses have two rooms.


BORJA

Looking for a job

If you are looking for a job in Guipuzcoa is better if you can speak other languages. Euskera, English or French are the most important here.

The Basque country is one the community that has less unemployment in Spain but I think it depends on what kind of job you are looking for.

Here, to find a job in an office or a company is more dificult than to find it in a store or an restaurant. That is the reason why i think we have to study some carrer.

In administrations area we have oportunities but we need to have experience, if you are interesting in that area i recomend make some course with practice, that is the way you can get experience and maybe find a good job in a company.
Good luck

María José