EIDE, Escuelas Internacionales

EIDE (Escuelas Internacionales para la Educación y el Desarrollo) is a private school founded in 1976 in the Margen Izquierda area of Greater Bilbao, in the Basque Country, with centres in Santurtzi, Sestao and Kabiezes. It teaches languages, tourism and hotel management, and hospitality. Its management system follows the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards.

• English courses for children, teenagers and adults
• French, German and Japanese courses
• Cambridge English exams (A2 Key to C2 Proficiency, YLE, Linguaskill)
• Higher vocational training (FP Grado Superior) in Tourist Accommodation Management
• Subsidised hospitality courses with professional certificates in cooking, restaurant and bar service

EIDE is an official Cambridge English exam centre (ES0165) and, according to the school, the only one in the Margen Izquierda; it also runs exam sessions in Bilbao, Santander, Gernika, Laredo, Santoña, Balmaseda and Galdakao. The two-year vocational programme, funded under an agreement with the Basque Government's Department of Education, leads to the official qualification of Técnico Superior en Gestión de Alojamientos Turísticos. It includes dual training placements of 3 weeks after the first year and 12 weeks after the second, mostly in 4- and 5-star hotels in Bilbao and Bizkaia, with the option of doing placements in European hotels through Erasmus+. Students train on the Opera PMS hotel software. The hospitality school runs the Uxoa restaurant.