The Basque Government is keen to identify and expand good practices in promoting the use of Basque in the socio-economic sphere. So it has set up a pilot programme to structure the exchange of knowledge between the companies that are further along the path the goal of which is to work in Basque.
 
EUSLAN is a pilot programme that aims to design and execute processes and practices to use Basque as a language of work in industrial companies, for internal as well as for external purposes; the aim is that the language should be used orally, in writing and in the linguistic landscape.
 
As it is a 3-year programme, it is due to be concluded in 2017. By that time the Basque Government will have contributed 904,393 euros to companies that have signed up to the EUSLAN programme.
 
Apart from the funding, the Government will also be responsible for driving the programme forward and directing it, specifically through the company ELAY. So the Government is doing two things: funding and providing knowledge.
 
12 companies in the industrial sector are participating: Batz, Cikautxo, Copreci, Danobat, Eika, Elay, Goizper, JMA, Maier, Matz-Erreka, Orkli and Ulma CYE.
 
The grant call for increasing the use and presence of Basque in the workplace in private organisations in the BAC-Basque Autonomous Community or region (currently known as the LANHITZ CALL) was first published in 1997. In the context of the LanHitz framework programme the Basque Government has expressed keenness in identifying and expanding the good practices in the promoting of Basque in the socio-economic sphere and has set up a new programme for this purpose.  
 
The EUSLAN programme is totally innovative; innovative in terms of content and in terms of the way of working and collaborating.