In 2007, the Durango Town Council agreed to announce the call for a scholarship to study the Toponymy of the Town of Durango.
The qualifying panel, constituted in 2008, consisted of the following members: Nerea Mujika, representing the University of Deusto; Jose Luis Lizundia, member of the Euskaltzaindia (Academy of the Basque Language) Onomastics Committee and Mari Jose Balier, chair of the Basque Language and Culture Commission; the secretary was the municipal Basque expert, Juan Antonio Atutxa.
The panel unanimously agreed to grant the scholarship to Alberto Errazti Igartua.
