The Government of Spain has launched a tool, called ELISA, which provides citizens and analysts with up-to-date information on the execution of the investments of the Recovery Plan.
This tool, accessible through the Recovery Plan’s website, allows monitoring the execution of European funds through the analysis of public data from the National Grants Database (BDNS) and the Public Sector Contracting Platform (PLACSP), which are exploited through automated website data collection techniques (web scraping) and machine learning.
In this sense, the ELISA tool allows to track calls for tenders and grants with Next Generation 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 8,000 companies, entities and citizens of Cantabria have received funds
A total of 8,099 companies, entities and citizens of the Community of Cantabria already have 385 million euros of European funds from the Recovery Plan.
Of these funds, 243 million euros come from calls made by the General Administration of the State, 122 million of those resolved by the Autonomous Community with the resources allocated at the Sectorial Conferences and 20 million tendered by the municipal corporations.
Of the 437 million euros allocated by the Government to Cantabria for its direct management, Cantabria has called a total of 305 million and has awarded 122 million, with a resolution rate of 40%.
For their part, the municipal corporations have summoned 39 million euros and resolved 20 million.
46% of the beneficiaries in Cantabria are microenterprises and SMEs.
The largest volume of investments has been allocated to sustainable infrastructure projects, with 28%, followed by urban and rural agenda projects, with 21%, and modernization of the industrial fabric, with 12%.
At the national level about 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.