ASOCIACION DE INDUSTRIAS DE CONOCIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIA –
EUSKALHERRIKO EZAGUTZA ETA TEKNOLOGIA INDUSTRIEN ELKARTEA
Spain
GAIA is the Association of Industries of Applied Knowledge and Technology of the Basque Country, and it is to boost the development and growth in the Engineering, Consulting, Electronics-IT and Telecommunications sectors, and to favour the assimilation and efficient usage of the sector’s technologies, with the aim of collaborating in the development of the Information and Knowledge Society.
Also, it is a regional Cluster, and it promotes the Networking with the key stakeholders within the Basque Country, and policy and ICT Deployment to the industry within the region. GAIA represents the ICTA sector (Knowledge and applied technologies industries), which constitutes a competitive advantage to accelerate the transformation of companies, territory and society with the aim of positioning Basque Country in the New Economy.
Some figures of what GAIA represents are: 304 company members of the cluster More than 21.000 employees in the sector Turnover of 5.530 million euro 2250 million euro in exports 145 million € invested in R+D Moreover, GAIA has participated in more than 20 different projects of the Erasmus Call. Additionally, GAIA is piloting, together with the Basque Government, the project called The Basque District for Culture and Creativity BDCC.
Our goal is to establish a European District of Creative Economy to strengthen Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs) by improving their business and technological skills to support the European transition towards climate neutrality and digital leadership. The BDCC –Basque District of Culture and Creativity–is the space that enables, develops, and helps the cultural and creative industries in the Basque Country by promoting competitiveness and the economic strengthening of the sector. The BDCC accompanies companies and professionals in their projects of creation, professionalization, innovation, internationalization, financing, growth or competitive.
The BDCC was created in 2021 and since then has not stopped working with the aim of supporting companies in the
cultural and creative sector, mainly in the Basque Country, Spain. For the BDCC, the training of the cultural and creative
sector is key to promote the competitiveness and economic strengthening of the CCIs. The BCDD has two training
programs:
- Consolidation program, which supports ICCs in their business projects through training and subsequent tutored and
personalized accompaniment. The objective is the consolidation of a business project according to the needs of each
company (internationalization, digitalization, innovation, new business model, new services or products, etc.). In this
program, Artificial Intelligence is one of the training blocks.
- BDCC Thursdays. Events open to all companies in the sector on specific topics that have been identified as a need by the
sector (market growth, intellectual property, networking, Artificial Intelligence, etc.). Practical experiences, real cases of
implementation and knowledge of different experts (at territorial, national or international level) are presented. Also, one of
the objectives of this conference is networking between different companies from different sub-sectors of the CCIs. In 2023, one of these BDCC Thursday was related to the Artificial Intelligence in the Cultural and Creative Industries.
Teachers
BENEDIKT PERAK
Lecturer in philology and linguistics, teacher at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka.
DAMIR MEDVED
Director of the EDIH ADRIA project (European Digital Innovation HUB) – University of Rijeka
TOMISLAV LUKIĆ
A reliable professional with experience in an industry oriented towards clients and their business partners in Croatia and abroad.
TANIA MULC
She is involved in organizing and evaluating educational process, case study, projects and employees professional development.
