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As on previous occasions, the Leizaola Foundation organized a visit to the Basque institutions on 26 October. On this occasion, more than 50 young students from the Faculty of Law of the UPV/EHU have had the opportunity to get to know the seat of the Basque Parliament in Vitoria-Gasteiz, to participate in a direct plenary session and in a paper on the history and functioning of the institution by protocol staff. The group then moved to the headquarters of the Basque Memory Institute, Gogora, where they were presented with this institution and the work it develops for the recovery and preservation of Basque historical memory.

Since last September, the Leizaola Foundation has been developing an extensive programme to disseminate the sustainable development objectives set out in the 2030 Agenda to society and especially to young people. For this reason, special publications and content have been made and conferences and round tables on the subject are being held at the UPV. These dissemination and social participation activities will be extended throughout 2024.

En el marco de las actividades de promoción de los valores de la Paz y los Derechos Humanos en la sociedad vasca, y especialmente entre colectivos vulnerables, la Fundación está realizando en 2023, a lo largo de toda la CAPV, diversos cursos de formación y sensibilización. El objetivo principal de esta acción es favorecer la convivencia y la inclusión pacífica y próspera, y las formaciones se imparten a través de la EPA (Centro de Educación Permanente de Personas Adultas).

View of the panels that make up the exhibition. The Josu Murueta civic center in Erandio, Bizkaia, will host the exhibition on the figure of Ramón María Aldasoro between February 6 and 20. The exhibition includes the life and political trajectory of the greatest exponent of Basque republicanism back in the 20s and 30s of the last century. Brilliant lawyer from Toulouse with an office in Bilbao, he was a member of the first Basque Government, in which he held the position of Minister of Commerce and Supplies, standing out for his excellent management skills and his great loyalty to Lehendakari Agirre.

Juan Ramón María Aldasoro Galarza was a Republican lawyer from Tolosa and Basque. He was Minister of Commerce and Provisioning of the first Basque Government, in times of the Second spanish Republic. But the Civil War that frustrated everything would condemn him to exile like all the members of that first government. And there he died, in exile, specifically in Cuba, in 1952. Today, very few know his figure and, for this reason, we have organized an itinerant exhibition on Aldasoro and the time he had to live. It can be visited in different towns and cities of the Basque Country, announcing here the dates of each of the exhibitions.

Following the course of the last few years, and maintaining our Foundation's commitment to peace, coexistence and the European spirit, the 12th Century World War XII World War II will be celebrated. We celebrated the Youth Meeting again this year in Belgium. A total of 26 people have been able to meet the European institutions directly, recognizing the main concerns of young Europeans and publicising their own. The four-day stay has been quite fruitful, and we have organised a number of conferences and meetings in Brussels in cooperation with the European Commission, the Council and the European Commission of the Regions.

The Leizaola Foundation, as part of the activities it organizes within the Euskal Astea program, will offer Basque music, dance and a performance by the bertsolari Peru Irastorza next Friday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Bilbao's Bilborock hall. The event will begin and end with a performance by the San Antonio choir from the Bilbao neighborhood of Iralabarri. The choir will perform five songs, from Oskorri to Maitetxu mía, by Francisco Alonso. But the Beti Jai Alai Dantza Taldea from Bilbao will also participate and will make their art known. Among other things, it will present the Lekeitio women's auresku, the Eguzki dance. In addition, the txistulari Urtzi Leginetxe and the pianist María Solinís will perform classical pieces of Basque music, Sandra Rodríguez will sing and the Roser Carrés…

As we had announced, on Thursday, May 5, we held a meeting at Bilbao's Euskararen Etxea that brought together prominent personalities from the world of the Basque language. The space, moderated by the journalist Agurtzane Bilbao, was attended by Patxi Baztarrika, renowned Euskaltzale, linguist and politician, Paul Bilbao, director of Euskalgintzaren Kontseilua, Miren Agurtzane Elorduy, professor and researcher at the UPV, Kepa Erdozia, professor and researcher from the UPV, Maddi Etxebarria, from Elhuyar Fundazioa, and Miren Elixabete Larrinaga, professor and researcher at the UPV. In a relaxed atmosphere, the attendees outlined some of the main challenges that the Basque language has to face. The session was broadcast in its entirety on YouTube, and the complete recording is available here: https://youtu.be/PfwmyU8DTJg

In line with the spaces for reflection that the Foundation usually organizes, next Thursday, May 5, we will hold a meeting that will bring together prestigious experts in the field of Basque. The meeting will begin at five in the afternoon at the Euskararen Etxea, in the Bilbao neighborhood of San Ignacio, and we will try to reflect on what may be the appropriate strategy for promoting the Basque language in these new times in which we live.

We continue with the organization of our training workshops in various areas of peace and coexistence, and the next three months are certainly going to be intense. On March 15 we will give two workshops on “Interpersonal Relations. Empathy with others to live in society”, at the Paulo Freire center in Vitoria-Gasteiz. One will take place in the morning, from 9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m., and the other will be offered in the afternoon, from 6:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. In turn, on Monday, March 21, we will give this same workshop at the Círculo Calle Francia center, also in the capital of Alava. This time, only in the morning, from 9:45 to 12 hours. On April 7, the renowned psychiatrist Goyo Armañanzas will direct the training “Memory and silence…