The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, through Red.es, has so far granted in Cantabria around 3,400 digital bonds for 15.5 million euros within the framework of the Digital Kit program aimed at the implementation of basic digitization solutions in self-employed, micro-enterprises and small enterprises with less than 50 employees.
The calls that remain open are now joined by those addressed to communities of property, civil societies with commercial activity, professional civil societies and agricultural holdings of shared ownership. As in the previous calls, the assistance will depend on the number of people employed: 12,000 euros for companies between 10 and less than 50 workers, 6,000 euros for companies between 3 and less than 10 workers, and 2,000 euros for those with between 0 and less than 3 employees.
The call, published on July 22, details the requirements to apply for aid, the obligations incurred by the beneficiaries, the maximum amounts per aid per category of digitization solutions, the justification, payment and control of the implementation of the solutions, among other important matters.
This call, which will also remain open until December 31, 2024, has an initial budget of 100 million euros expandable and is aimed at improving the competitiveness and digital maturity level of the beneficiary entities.
How to request the help of Kit Digital
In order to qualify for Kit Digital assistance, the entities must be registered in the Census of entrepreneurs, professionals and retainers of the State Tax Administration Agency or in the equivalent census of the Foral Tax Administration, which must reflect the economic activity effectively carried out on the date of application for the assistance, and have a minimum age of 6 months.
From there, the steps to apply for help are as follows:
1. Register in the private area of www.acelerapyme.es with the NIF of the entity and complete the digital self-diagnostic test that does not take more than 10 minutes.
2. Consult the available information of the digitization solutions of the Kit Digital program, where you can choose one or several of those indicated in the catalog that can be consulted in www.acelerapyme.es/.
3. Request assistance at the electronic office of Red.es (https://sede.red.gob.es).
The beneficiary entity may also consult in http://www.acelerapyme.es The catalog of digitizing agents. The beneficiary entity must select one or more digitizing agents with which to develop the digitization solutions that best suit the needs of its business and sign the agreements to provide digitization solutions. The catalogue currently consists of more than 10,700 digitizing agents.
As a novelty in this call, the entities to which it is addressed will have to fill out a single form regardless of the segment (I, II or III) to which they belong. It will be Red.es that performs, after receiving the request, the necessary verifications to check in which segment each requesting entity is located.
In addition, for communities of property, agricultural holdings of shared ownership and civil societies for commercial purposes that are not constituted in public deed, it will be necessary for the entity to present a model of legal representation by appointing a legal representative of the members of the entity. The model that you will have to fill in is available in the call. This procedure will not be necessary for professional civil societies.
The grants are non-competitive and will be awarded directly and in order of arrival, once the checks of compliance with the requirements required in the call have been carried out.
Those interested in this call will be able to consult both the call and the regulatory bases and their updates in www.acelerapyme.es.
About 1.3 billion euros have reached SMEs
To date, the Kit Digital program has granted about 280,000 grants, which means that around 1.3 billion euros from European Next Generation EU funds have reached Spanish SMEs to implement basic digitization solutions.
It has become the most demanded program of aid to the digitalization of SMEs in the history of Spain.
Under the motto ‘zero papers’, Red.es has designed a very innovative processing system using robotization tools and automated artificial intelligence that reduces the bureaucratic burden, decreases the number of documents to be submitted and shortens the concession deadlines. The company will be able to request the help without providing any documentation. It will be sufficient for the entrepreneur to authorize Red.es to consult ex officio the requirements and obligations required to obtain the status of beneficiary, safeguarding transparency and legal certainty.
Another of the innovations of the Program, which will also be present in this call, is the figure of the “voluntary representative” that allows any third party, be it a natural or legal person, duly authorized, to request the subsidy on behalf of the company eliminating procedures to the SME.
Digital Kit Program
Kit Digital is an aid program of the Government of Spain managed by Red.es, entity attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence. It has a total budget of 3,067 million euros, financed by the European Union through the NextGenerationEU funds, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the Digital Spain 2026 agenda and the Digitalization Plan of SMEs 2021-2025, and has the objective of digitizing SMEs and self-employed people from all productive sectors throughout the national territory.