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  • Entrepreneurship

    How long can I count on BIG Bilbao's support and services?

    In BIG Bilbao, entrepreneurship center of Bilbao Ekintza, we offer you support during the whole process of creation, since your project is an idea, in the development and analysis, the start up, and the first year of life of your business.

    The entrepreneurial person has specialized and personalized help in all its phases, adapting the services to his or her competence profile, to the activity sector in which his or her project is located, as well as to the moment of the analysis cycle in which the project is.

    In any case, in general, there is a period of six months for the feasibility study and the realization of the business plan.

    If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Entrepreneurship-Big Bilbao” area.

  • Entrepreneurship

    Which financial aids or subsidies are offered to entrepreneurs?

    Bilbao Ekintza is a collaborating entity of Lanbide, Basque Employment Service, in the execution of the call for aid to support people who promote new business ideas, as well as the call for aid to start up new business activities.

    We also act as a collaborating entity of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, in its call for subsidies for the promotion of self-employment and the creation of companies by unemployed people and those at risk of exclusion.

    The person tutoring your project at BIG Bilbao will inform you of all the grants, subsidies or competitions called by other entities and to which you may be eligible.

    If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Entrepreneurship-Big Bilbao” area.

  • Entrepreneurship

    At BIG Bilbao, can they help me to develop my company's Business Plan?

    At BIG Bilbao, Bilbao Ekintza’s entrepreneurship center, we support and advise you to carry out your Business Plan, within a personalized support itinerary, which you will be able to adapt according to the progress of your project.

    In any case, the people of the promotion team are responsible for the realization and analysis of the business plan, with the guidance and advice of the BIG team.

    If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Entrepreneurship-Big Bilbao” area.

  • Entrepreneurship

    How do I apply for a job?

    In order to access to job offers it is necessary to be registered in Lanbide, the Basque Employment Service, as a job seeker. All the offers are published in its web side, where you can consult them.

    Likewise, from the same web page you can access “My Lanbidenet”, to register directly with your ID and Password to job offers and know the status of your application with respect to the offer.

    We remind you that it is important to have your Lanbide’s Curriculum Vitae updated and that you have a network of offices where you can go to update your job application.

  • Entrepreneurship

    I am unemployed or actively seeking employment and need guidance. Where can I get help?

    In order to access to this type of support services, we recommend you go to your nearest Lanbide, the Basque Employment Service, office and ask there for employment guidance and support in the search for employment.

    In Lanbide you can consult the network of offices, as well as the job offers and training courses available.

  • Entrepreneurship

    Which commitments and obligations do I assume when I access BIG Bilbao's services?

    Entrepreneurs who decide to access the services of BIG Bilbao, Bilbao Ekintza’s entrepreneurship center, must assume the following commitments:

    • To analyze the viability of the business project and to write its corresponding Business Plan, according to the guidelines and orientations that are indicated to them, accepting the evaluations that are established at each moment regarding the same, as well as the consequences that it has on the services that every business project has a priori.
    • To communicate to Bilbao Ekintza any variation that takes place in the project in relation to its initial approach and in relation to the components of the promoter group.
    • To maintain a high level of use of the training and advice services in business management to which the project has access, maintaining a sufficient dedication to the object of being able to know in the medium term its viability as a company.
    • To inform Bilbao Ekintza about any other advisory and/or training program that the project has accessed or plans to access. The advice received by the project through BIG Bilbao, will prevail over any other type of advice that the project could access by any person or entity outside the mentioned Service.
    • Notify the time to register your business project in the Tax on Economic Activities (IAE).