Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, the Basque Premier, launched the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) this morning, during a ceremony attended by the Basque Government’s Minister for Economic Development and Infrastructure, Arantxa Tapia, who will chair the BRTA.  All the centres that have already signed up to the Alliance and the three Provincial Councils, whose membership applications were approved today, were there.