The Government has launched a tool called ELISA, which provides citizens and analysts with up-to-date information on the implementation of the Recovery Plan investments.
This tool, accessible through the web of the Recovery Plan enables the implementation of European funds to be monitored by analysing public data from the National Grants Database (BDNS) and the Public Sector Procurement Platform (PLACSP), which are exploited through automated web scraping and machine learning techniques.
In this sense, the ELISA tool allows to track calls for tenders and grants with NextGeneration EU funds, as well as their resolution, both those managed directly by the General Administration of the State, and those transferred to the Autonomous Communities through the Sectoral Conferences and those executed by local corporations.
More than 90% of beneficiaries are SMEs and foundations
A total of 18,171 companies, entities and citizens of the Canary Islands already have 1,087 million euros of European funds from the Recovery Plan. 64% of the beneficiaries are micro-enterprises and SMEs, followed by foundations with 27% and temporary union of companies with 4%.
Of these funds, 666 million euros come from calls made by the General Administration of the State, 370 million of those resolved by the Autonomous Community with the resources allocated at the Sectoral Conferences and 51 million tendered by the municipal corporations.
“Without a doubt, we are talking about a very important investment effort taking advantage of these economic resources that are the result of that struggle of our President of the Government also to have a different way out of the economic crisis derived from the Covid than we had in the economic and financial crisis from 2008 onwards,” says the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana.
“It is undoubtedly great news for our country and for the Canary Islands, also remembering that citizens can also monitor these funds through the ELISA tool in an effort of transparency by the Government of Spain,” he adds.
Of the 1,645 million euros allocated by the Government of Spain to the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands for its direct management, the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands has convened a total of 672 million and has awarded 370 million, with a resolution rate of 55%. For their part, the municipal corporations have summoned 98 million euros and resolved 51 million.
The largest volume of investment has been allocated to Energy Transition projects, with 25%, followed by Modernization of the industrial fabric, with 22%, and Urban and Rural Agenda, with 19%.
Recovery Plan funds are reaching the real economy
At the national level, around 34.4 billion euros have been allocated to companies and households, having already reached the real economy.
The information obtained through this database confirms that the funds of the Recovery Plan are reaching cruising speed to the real economy. Specifically, a total of 627,237 citizens, institutions and companies have received funds from the Recovery Plan until the end of February, of which 38% are microenterprises and SMEs.
We are halfway through the implementation period of the Recovery Plan and around 50% of the approximately 70 billion euros allocated to Spain in the first phase of the Recovery Plan have already been awarded.