Since 2016, the Mutually Foundation has been awarding the Route and Project Awards. The first one is given every year in order to "highlight the work done for many years" by the group that receives it. The second is given every two years to support "a cultural project or one that is already underway". Although the awards ceremony will take place on June 3 at the Teatro Café in Bilbao, it has already been announced which associations will receive the two awards: How many Garas will receive the Camino award, and the Televisión Kanaldude to the Project.

Founded in the early 1990s in the Basque Country, Gabriel Aresti is an association dedicated to the Basque language. Although the most important initiatives promoted by the association are the Euskalegia itself and the Café Teatro de Bilbao, it has also carried out other projects aimed at Basques, such as the Bilbao City Radio, the Algara kompartsa, the Erroa publishing house and the Kurkuluxetan children’s and young people’s club or the Txikola.

Joanmari Larrarte, president of the Elkartea Foundation, has stated that the Bidea prize will be awarded to the association "for the path followed since the end of the last century": "The search for what the Basques lacked in Bilbao was the starting point for Nola Gara; that is, the creation of spaces and moments of communication in Basque and in a natural way." He stressed that if it were not for the work of the association, the situation of the Basque language and culture in Bilbao would be worse.

Offering content in Basque for the whole of the Basque Country

The award to the Project will be given to Televisión Kanaldude by the Interfat Foundation. Kanaldude was founded in 1997 in the Aldude Valley (Lower Navarre). Larrarte highlights his long career since then, as he is currently on television throughout the Northern Basque Country, as well as through the Internet. The President of the Interfaith Foundation praised Kanaldud's ability to "adapt to the opportunities and needs of the moment": "Thanks to the work done, it is now a reference television for the Basques of the Northern Basque Country and popular for the whole of the Basque Country."