In her appearance before the Culture, Basque and Sport Committee of the Basque Parliament, advisor Ibone Bengoetxea also proposed pacts to increase the use of Basque outside the classroom, in the world of work and technology.
The First Vice President and Minister of Culture and Language Policy, Ibone Bengoetxea, has committed himself to this promote the Guggenheim Urdaibai projectthrough “dialogue and listening”, in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Bizkaia. This is one of the projects he highlighted during his appearance before the Committee on Culture, the Basque Country and Sport of the Basque Parliament, in which he outlined the main challenges of this department for the next four years.
He promotion of Basque It will be one of the main topics that will be discussed by the department. In this sense, she advocates reaching an agreement so that extracurricular activities in Basque take place in all municipalities, and a socio-political consensus so that it has a place in the world of work and in the digital environment. According to Bengotxea, achieving an official status in Europe is another goal of this legislature.
He has chosen to move forward on the path of free learning and has called for the achievement of consensus that separates the Basque Country from disputes.
EiTB’s role in developing language technologies and helping to create content and products in Basque was also highlighted.
In it artistic areahas announced that creators will be given tools to develop their talents and that infrastructure and policies will be strengthened for production “especially by women” and to encourage production in the Basque Country.
Bengoetxea has announced a new law of the Basque cultural system that strengthens the coordination of agents, takes into account the plurality of society and makes culture more accessible. He has also announced that it will be approved a project to guarantee and improve the working conditions of artists and creative people and their mobility at festivals, fairs and international forums will be supported.
In addition to the progress in the Guggenheim Urdaibai project, he emphasized more cultural investments such as the renovation and extension of the main theatre of Vitoria, and the collaboration with the City Council of Donostia in positioning the city as a cultural reference in Europe and in the analysis of projects to improve and renew the technical space of the Victoria Eugenia Theatre.
Basque national teams
In the field of sport, the Ministry has set itself the challenge of making the CAV one of the most active associations in Europe. To this end, it has committed itself to promoting knowledge of the ‘Kirol txartela’ and ‘Mugiment’ programmes and to launching the new Basque team centre for high-level sports.
He announced that the Basque Government will support the Basque sports federations that decide to promote the official status of their teams and the athletes and teams that compete at international level.
Source: EITB
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