Bilbao

Bilbao is located in the province of Biscay (Basque Country), on the Eastern Atlantic slope of the Iberian Peninsula. It covers an area of 42 km2 and has a population of 350,000 inhabitants. The city has an economic past based on the heavy industry but at present the services sector is the main economic sector of the city.

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Bilbao, City of Values

The project aims to position values as the driving forces behind human development in the city of Bilbao. [...]

First meeting of the thematic network: ‘City of Values, Educating City’

The first meeting of the network 'City of Values, Educating City' of the Spanish Network of Educating Cities takes place in Bilbao on 24-25 May. The thematic network is composed by 25 cities from 10 regions. [...]

Comprehensive Female Genital Mutilation Prevention

A strategy of prevention and empowerment of women affected by Female Genital Mutilation, through which it is intended, on one hand, to encourage a change of mentality among the communities at risk and, on the other, to favour its eradication. [...]

Bilbao Art Foundation

It is a municipal centre dedicated to artistic and cultural creation, specifically in the visual arts sector. To create it, an old disused school in the La Vieja quarter of Bilbao was refurbished. [...]