Madrid, July 26, 2024.- The Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, through the Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, and the EOI Foundation, attached to the General Secretariat of Industry and SMEs, have published in the BOE a new call for the Program "Digital Generation SMEs", which is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
“Digital Generation SMEs” is an initiative led by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function that pursues, like the other two calls previously published within the “Digital Generation” initiative, the promotion of the digital transformation of Spanish SMEs, thus improving their productivity and their possibilities of growth and internationalization.
The aim of this initiative is to offer training programmes in the field of digital transformation to people in the management teams of SMEs and their workers, in order to equip them with the key competences to contribute to the digital transformation of their companies.
The grants of this call, in the form of a grant, are directed to Reference Training Entities in Spain. These entities will be responsible for providing training programmes throughout the national territory.
These programmes are intended to:
- Offer managers and workers of SMEs key knowledge and skills to promote the digital transformation of their companies and thereby improve productivity and their chances of growth and internationalization.
- Show how technology impacts business, allowing the customer to be placed at the center to solve their needs, and generate and exploit data for business decision making.
- Reduce the digital gender gap by increasing the number of women trained in digital SME management.
The EOI Foundation is in charge of managing the investment planned for this initiative, which initially in this call amounts to 50.7 million euros, from the funds of the Recovery Plan, more specifically, of Component 19.
Applications to be a Training Entity can be submitted through the electronic headquarters of the EOI Foundation and the deadline will be open until September 18, 2024, from the publication of the call in the BOE.
The “Digital Generation SMEs” initiative complements the rest of the “Generation D” projects started in 2023 and currently in execution, among which are:
- Digital Generation SMEs for managers: Training and mentoring in digital transformation so that the people of management teams establish the Digital Transformation Plan of their SMEs.
- Digital Generation Agents of Change: Training and mentoring unemployed young people and SME workers to be the experts who will contribute to the digitisation process of the SME.
This call for aid is covered under Component 19. “National Digital Capabilities Plan”, of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which has a global endowment of 3,593 million euros and the objective of guaranteeing the digital training and inclusion of citizens and workers, leaving no one behind in the process of digital transformation of society and the economy.
Excerpt from the Call for “Digital Generation SMEs”:
https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2024/07/25/pdfs/BOE-B-2024-27326.pdf
Orders of Bases and more information about the program in