What do you need?

If your project is framed within the Digital Economy, in BIG Bilbao, entrepreneurship center of Bilbao Ekintza, you can access to a specialized training and advice through a panel of experts in different areas of knowledge: Life Cycle of a Startup, Ideation, User Experience (UX), Technical Validation and Market, Financial Hypothesis, Legal – Legal, Digital Marketing and Financing or grants.

In addition, every year we call for a “Digital Entrepreneurship Competition“, in order to offer development paths and specialized support to projects within the framework of the project, in addition to a financial award: 1st prize: 6,000 euros, 2nd prize 4,000 euros and 3rd prize 2,000 euros.

As a municipal service in Bilbao, we attend to all kinds of projects, with a special focus on those business ideas that fall within what are defined as “strategic” sectors of activity for the city:

• Digital Economy
• Cultural and Creative Industries
• Advanced Services to Industry
• Tourism

To contact BIG Bilbao, entrepreneurship center of Bilbao Ekintza, use the general contact form on this website, selecting “Entrepreneurship – BIG Bilbao“, or call us at 94 420 53 60 and tell us your idea.

To access the services, we need to know both the business idea and the profile of the development team, and to do so we will send you an email with information about the documentation to be sent.

– Questionnaire

– National ID

– Curriculum Vitae

– Lanbide Registration Report or DARDE (unemployed only)

After receiving this documentation we will contact you to arrange an interview as soon as possible.

BIG Bilbao is the Bilbao Ekintza Entrepreneurship Center, launched in 2017 by the Bilbao City Council in coordination with other agents. Nowadays, it is a reference infrastructure for business creation in the city.

It is a space to start up business projects that generate economic activity and employment in Bilbao, accompanying those people who want to undertake throughout the process of creation and consolidation of the company.

In this sense, it seeks to create a comprehensive service catalog that provides value, in an environment open to citizens and equipped with services and infrastructure adapted to their needs.