GAIA is the Association of Electronics and Information Technologies in the Basque Country, a private and professional non-profit organisation, established in 1983, currently made up of 260 industrial members (80% SMEs, with a total of 11.000 employees) that offer products and services in the field of electronics, information technology and telecommunications.
GAIA has vast experience in the development of EU funded projects related to the development of new technologies for different fields, such as environment, health, transport, green technologies, and since almost 10 years one section of the organization has been working in the identification of knowledge, competences and skills needed for new jobs in the area of ICT, together with several organization around Europe.
Main support actions for associated SMEs are: strategic projects identification, actions between large companies and SMEs in order to foster direct subcontracting, competitive networking, actions between research entities, universities and SMEs, to have these last benefited from state-of-the-art RTD, identification of strategic technologies for SMEs in the TPs SRAs.
The Electronics, IT and Telecommunications sector in the Basque Country is one of the most important concentrations of industrial developments in the this sector in Spain.
