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Donostia-San Sebastian. HABE, as part of the Euskara Munduan program, has closed the call for aid for euskera classes in Basque centers during the academic year 2012/13. As a result of the call HABE will sign 28 agreements with as many euskal etxeak and Basque federations.

Iñaki Uribe, director of HABE, told EuskalKultura.com that this year they "have agreed to subsidize all of the hours requested.  Over the last few years, due to well-known budgetary restraints, we haven’t been able to increase the number of teaching hours, but we have maintained them.  Today, the goal is to maintain the current activity, since we don’t have the resources to increase the aid.”

Signing of Agreements

At the end of November, Uribe met with some of the directors of Basque clubs in Murcia, Valencia and Quart de Poblet (Valencia, Spain), where he signed the corresponding agreements of collaboration.  He visited these centers along with Kinku Zinkunegi, technician responsible for the Euskara Munduan program.  On November 27 they were at the Murcia Basque club where the agreement was signed by Uribe and Unai Sanchez Doral, club president.

[HABE representatives Iñaki Uribe and Kinku Zinkunegi, witht the board of directors of the Euskaltzaleok in Valencia (photo HABE)]

On November 28 another agreement was signed with Euskaltzaleok in Quart de Poblet, represented by its president German Eiguren, and finally on November 29, another was signed with the Centro Vasco Navarro in Valencia represented by its recently elected president, Juan Jose Dorronsoro.