The Government launches the second call for “Digital Generation SMEs” to promote training as a lever of digital transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises
11/07/2023
The objective is to offer training and mentoring programs to managers and workers of SMEs, as well as unemployed young people to strengthen the digital transformation of the Spanish economy. This call has a budget of 140.6 million euros, although in total 356 million euros will be invested in this program from the European funds of the Recovery Plan. The second call for this initiative will culminate the training in the field of digital transformation of about 96,000 people of management teams of SMEs and 33,000 change agents experts in digital transformation.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, through the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence and the Foundation EOI, attached to the General Secretariat of Industry and SME, have published in the BOE the second calls of the “Digital Generation” Program SMEs”, which are part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
“Digital Generation SMEs” is an initiative led by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation that seeks to promote the digital transformation of the SMEs Spanish, thus improving its productivity and its possibilities for growth and internationalization.
The objective of this initiative is to offer a training and mentoring program to people of management teams of SMEs and its workers, as well as unemployed young people who want to prepare to contribute to the digital transformation of these companies.
The aid of this call, in the form of a grant, is directed to Reference Training Entities in Spain. These Entities will be responsible for imparting the training program throughout the national territory.
The “Digital Generation” initiative SMEs“It is articulated in two projects:
These projects are aimed at:
- Offer to people directives of SMEs, the knowledge and skills necessary to promote the digital transformation of their companies and thereby improve productivity and their possibilities for growth and internationalization.
- Offer future “agents of change” the knowledge and skills necessary for their incorporation or requalification in the labor market as agents of digital transformation.
- Show how technology impacts businesses, allowing the customer to be placed at the center to solve their needs, and generate and exploit data for business decision making.
- Provide the entrepreneurial fabric with talent with the ability to implement concrete and specific actions under an Action Plan.
- Reduce the digital gender gap by increasing the number of women trained in digital gender management SME.
The Foundation EOI is in charge of managing the investment planned for this initiative, which in this second call amounts to 140.6 million euros (98.3 M for “Digital Generation” SMEs-People of Management Teams” and 43.3 M for “Digital Generation – Agents of Change”), from the European funds of the Recovery Plan.
Applications to become a Formative Entity can be submitted through the Foundation’s electronic headquarters EOI and the deadline will remain open for one month from the publication of the call in the BOE.
This call for aid is contemplated within the “National Digital Skills Plan”, of the Recovery Plan, which has a global allocation of 3,593 million euros and the objective of ensuring the digital formation and inclusion of citizens and workers, leaving no one behind in the process of digital transformation of society and the economy.
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