On 25th October Jakiunde, Academy of Science, Arts and Letters was set up in Donostia-San Sebastián. Jakiunde is the top-level Advisory Body and had been created with the aim of becoming a forum of reference for Basque society.

Under the presidency of the physicist Pedro Miguel Etxenike, Jakiunde is composed of public figures well known for their work in different fields of applied and pure sciences, artistic creation and critical thinking, who will work as a team in order to offer society their qualified perception of great and new challenges of the future. These include holders of the Euskadi Research Prize, Príncipe de Viana Prize and Eusko Ikaskuntza Prize, that is to say, prestigious specialists in fields such as Literature, Law, History, Anthropology, Science, Cinema, Music or Architecture.