Elhuyar has presented the 2019 report, which shows that last year was fruitful. The change of director is one of the keys to highlight, as Leire Cancio left the address and Jon Abril took the lead in September last year. From the project perspective, the main milestone has been the socialization of the automatic translator of Elhuyar. However, in all areas different projects have been developed in 2019 with 278 customers.

In the field of linguistic technologies and artificial intelligence, an intelligent search system has been developed, using the information search technology created by Elhuyar, to improve the accessibility and experience of users of the content of platform A of the EITB Charter. The BikoHITZ innovation project has been launched for the creation of expressive voices for doubling and audiovisual productions, along with other projects. Elhuyar’s work has also had an impact in the United States, as NIST and the IARPA agency awarded the multilingual search engine developed by Elhuyar and the IXA group of the UfV.

In the context of the Basque country, processes such as the Linguistic Plan of the Department of Health of Navarra and the Strategic Plan of the Basque Ministry of Labor Kutxa have been developed. In the tests for the year 2020, Elhuyar has worked as a consultant for the Basque country. Continuing with the path begun in 2018, Euskaraldia wants to channel the collective commitments in the entities this year, and for this purpose tests were carried out on the suitability of the methodology and the material, in which Elhuyar collaborated, who for years has shared the knowledge and experience acquired in various entities. As for dictionaries, as usual, in 2019 they have been updated and content, mobile applications have been renewed and online search options for dictionaries have been expanded.

The Equality and Participation section, in addition to the projects developed with different entities, refers to the work carried out with the administrations. The Vice-Ministry of Linguistic Policy of the Basque Government, in collaboration with Elhuyar, has established the Committee on Language and Gender. The Commission's aim is to incorporate experts who have worked on the subject of the intersection between language and gender, to analyse and structure the work done so far and to socialise the issue. Elhuyar has collaborated with the Gipuzkoa Foral Deputation on several projects. One of them has been the development of the Gipuzkoa Foral Plan to deal with male violence and the other, that of participation, the dynamization of the Interinstitutional Space for Citizen Participation. The objective of this space is for organisations to have a space or network to exchange their experiences and good practices.

In the field of scientific culture, last year was the celebration. Teknopolis, which is broadcast in two ETB chains, celebrated its 20th anniversary and the CAF-Elhuyar Awards were 25 years old. In addition to the celebrations, Elhuyar took over the press office of the Passion for Knowledge festival. The festival, which brought together 10,000 citizens, was attended by seven Nobel laureates and experts from around the world who offered lectures in San Sebastian, Bilbao and Pamplona.

The “Bizilabe” and “Elhuyar Zientzia Azoka” projects, which combine youth and education, continue to spread to different points in the Basque Country, with the increase in the number of participants. In 2019, a total of 2,000 students participated in these science and technology projects.

As regards the economic performance, last year Elhuyar reached a turnover of € 4,765,845, with a net result of € 106,181. 66% of revenue comes from the sale of products and services, 20% from competitive subsidies and 14% from agreements and partners.

The meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Elhuyar Foundation was held by telematics on 18 June. It approved the 2019 annual accounts, together with the approval of the accounts of the limited companies Elhuyar-Zubize and Eleka, owned by the foundation.

They are members of the board of Elhuyar: Txema Pitarke (President), Eustakio Arrojeria, Jesus Ugalde, Jose Mari Rodriguez, Xanti Goñi, Josu Waliño, Imanol Telleria, Jabi Duoandikoetxea, Itziar Laka, Leire Cancio, Usurbil Department of Economic Development

The annual report is available here