Overview
- The Education Department reports students with Basque as their mother tongue obtain higher results in Euskara, mathematics and science and it is promoting a campaign to increase family use of Basque at home.
- Government surveys cited by officials show adults use Basque with children about 20% of the time when together while only about 9% of adults speak Basque in their daily life.
- Zestoa has launched the 'Zestotarrak' label to mark nearby producers in town shops and encourage residents to buy local products through coordinated work by the municipality, merchants and producers.
- Zizurkil is preparing its 28th Azoka Berezia that will feature more than 40 stalls of local and Basque producers and organized tastings to raise visibility for farm and artisanal goods.
- Regional climate work is active this week with the Regions4Climate Horizon Europe meeting in Irun on coastal adaptation and BC3 and EHU teams publishing new research on long‑range pollution in K2 glacier snow and on urban heat‑vulnerability mapping under EU and national‑funded projects.