The Cluster of the Construction Industry in the Basque Country, ERAIKUNE is a non-profit association of interconnected companies, suppliers and supporting agents from the same field. The underlying idea is that competing companies within the same sector may come together to increase their business.
ERAIKUNE groups over one hundred companies from the Basque construction sector, representing an approximate turnover of 50% of the total of the sector in the Basque Country and generating more than 12,000 jobs.
ERAIKUNE has the Bronze Label, the standard of the European Cluster Excellence Initiative (ECEI), an initiative by the European Commission to define and certify an excellence scheme among European clusters. It is an international standard that certifies cluster management excellence according to a number of uniform management quality indicators and the services provided to the members of the cluster organization.