The Government launches the Digital Kit program to invest more than 3 billion euros in the digitalization of SMEs and self-employed people

24/11/2021
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  • The program will provide companies with a digitization voucher that they can use to buy digital solutions already available in the market in areas such as website development and management, internet presence, e-commerce, customer management, cybersecurity, supplier management and digital office.
  • Until 2023, several calls for grants will be launched, segmented by company size, to access digitization bonds. The first, with an investment of 500 million euros, will be aimed at SMEs between 10 and 49 workers
  • In the next few days an invitation will be launched to digitizing agents to be able to have offers of digitization solutions for companies
  • Interested companies can access all the information and receive advice on the web www.acelerapyme.es, on the telephone 900 909 001, or in person in the Offices AceleraSme distributed throughout the Spanish geography.
  • The Digital Kit program is part of the Recovery Plan, the Digitization Plan for SMEs 2021-2025 and the Digital Spain Agenda 2025, and aims to improve the level of digitization of the productive fabric in order to increase the scale of companies and their productivity, promote internationalization and the creation of quality jobs.

    • The First Vice-President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, has presented the Digital Kit, the support program of the Recovery Plan promoted to promote the digitization of SMEs and self-employed workers.


    The First Vice-President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, today presented the Digital Kit, the aid program of the Recovery Plan promoted by the Government to promote the digitization of SMEs and self-employed workers, which will contribute to modernizing the Spanish productive fabric, a plan that was advanced yesterday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
    The programme has a budget of 3,067 million euros, financed by the European Union through the Next Generation EU funds and aims to digitize SMEs and self-employed people throughout the national territory.
    The Digital Kit was created to support the digital transformation of small businesses, microenterprises and self-employed people and accompany them in the adoption of digital solutions that increase their level of digital maturity. A program framed in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the agenda Spain Digital 2025 and of SME Digitalization Plan.
    “The future of our SMEs and self-employed people is written in a digital key. The objective is clear: to take the opportunity of the Recovery Plan to provide our SMEs and self-employed people with the digital tools they need to increase their scale, access new markets and develop their full potential,” said the First Vice-President.
    After the publication in the next few days of the order of bases, which will reflect the operation of the program, a public invitation will be issued so that the digitizing agents can join the program and offer their solutions.
    Subsequently, during the period 2021-2023, several calls for aid will be launched aimed at the different segments of SMEs and self-employed people. The first call for aid, with an investment of 500 million euros, will be aimed at SMEs of between 10 and 49 workers.
    Advice on the digitization process
    To access personalized digital solutions, interested companies must first check their level of digitization through a ‘self-diagnostic test’, made available on the platform AceleraSme. They can also access all the information and receive advice on the telephone 900 909 001, or in person at the AceleraSme Offices distributed throughout the Spanish geography.
    Companies that access this program through the public call will receive a digital voucher that will identify the financial amount they will have to use in the digital solutions that best suit their needs. These digital solutions can be chosen from a wide catalogue. Ten categories have been identified initially:
    An initiative with interest
    To articulate the Digital Kit initiative, a Statement of Interest was launched last April that received more than 900 proposals, 74% came from companies and, of these, 90% were SMEs. These data reflect the awareness of the importance of digitization in the SME field.