Osakidetza launches the largest Public Employment Offer in its history

The spokesperson for the Basque Government and Minister for Culture and Language Policy, Bingen Zupiria, appeared at the usual press conference after the Governing Council meeting, together with the Minister for Health, Gotzone Sagardui, who presented the largest Public Employment Offer in Osakidetza.

The 2020, 2021 and 2022 OPE replacement tests and the 2021 stabilization tests will be held between the months of July and November of this year, distributed between the UPV/EHU campus of Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Barakaldo BEC. In this new Public Job Offer, Osakidetza puts on the table a total of 7,639 places, divided into 110 different professional categories, which makes it the largest process of stabilization and consolidation of public employment in the history of Osakidetza. 

The Minister of Health, Gotzone Sagardui, highlighted the effort of the Basque Government, which has committed itself to stabilizing 4,000 places in this four-year period and, despite the pandemic, with this Public Job Offer and the previous one of 2018-2019 - currently in the merit assessment phase - will reach 11,000 places, which represents a third of Osakidetza's staff. To be precise, the call responds to one of the main challenges included in the Strategic Framework 2020-2024 of the Department led by Sagardui: the commitment to job consolidation, with measures aimed at increasing the workforce, to provide greater job stability to Osakidetza's staff.

AGREEMENTS OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL

As usual, the spokesperson, Bingen Zupiria, provided information on other issues discussed in the Governing Council meeting, including the following:

In the field of education, this morning an Order has been approved by which grants will be allocated for Federations and Associations that are related to private subsidised centres providing the second cycle of Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Compulsory Secondary Education and the Baccalaureate. During the course of 2023-2024 these are to carry out multilingual linguistic centre projects.  This round has an amount of 1,300,000 euros and will be eligible for those teacher training activities linked to the development of the multilingual language project in the centres.

Continuing with measures that have to do with teacher training, the Government has also today approved grants to subsidised educational centres that provide vocational training courses, for carrying out  training activities for their teachers , during the 2023-2024 academic year. This round amounts to almost 300,000 euros.

Linked to memories, the Basque Government has today given the green light to the round for financing projects aimed at the recovery, research and dissemination of historical memory and the fight for democracy and freedom, during the period 1936-1977 in the Basque Country. This round, with a budget of 112,000 euros, is aimed at promoting the initiatives carried out by associations and foundations dedicated to historical memory.

Likewise, today has approved the round this year for the Bonos Elkarrekin programme, aimed at promoting a culture of coexistence and social encounter with a budget of 500,000 euros, for actions in three areas: local coexistence, education and citizen participation. As Zupiria explained, these grants will finance joint projects between non-profit entities and municipal institutions with the aim of continuing to promote collaboration between different social actors to promote a culture of coexistence and respect for human rights in all areas of society.

Finally, together with the Department of Culture and Language Policy, the Governing Council has approved the round of subsidies for professional musical activities . A total of 860,000 euros will be allocated to support production, promotion and musical dissemination projects, which means an increase in the endowment of the call for proposals of 20,000 euros compared to last year. Zupiria stressed that this grant attempts to reinforce the entire value chain of music, that is, the creation, exhibition, consumption and work of all professionals, trying to support the stability of companies and programming.