Madrid, March 20, 2025.- The Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Service, Óscar López, has agreed today with the governments of the Autonomous Communities to extend the training program in digital skills, an initiative designed for citizens to acquire digital skills, with a special focus on elderly people, women, girls and vulnerable groups. The autonomous governments will now have six more months, until June 2026, to benefit more than 660,000 people with this program.

The agreement reached today, unanimously adopted, modifies an earlier agreement of the Sectoral Conference and will allow the CCAA to execute the budget of the program according to the changes included in the Spanish addendum to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The digital skills programme of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service has a budget of 140 million euros transferred to the regional governments.

“Spain’s good economic growth data are not on the sidelines of efforts to advance digital transformation. Today Spain is Europe’s leader in connectivity and is investing in technologies that shape the present and future of our economy. And this position of leadership is thanks to an effort of all administrations, and this must continue to be so that nobody is left behind,” said Minister Óscar López, who presided over his first Sectoral Conference on Digital Transformation.

In the course of the meeting, the minister informed the CCAA of the progress made by the department since it was the owner of the portfolio, such as the launch of the ALIA family of Artificial Intelligence language models, the implementation of the activity of the Spanish Agency for Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA), the aid for the extension of 5G to the rural environment and the promotion of data spaces, among other initiatives.