Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has presented this Friday a tool, called ELISA, which makes available to citizens and analysts updated information on the execution of the investments of the Recovery Plan.
The delegate explained that yesterday the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Enterprise announced this application that makes available to all citizens updated information on the execution of the investments of the Recovery Plan.
“ELISA makes it possible to monitor the calls for tenders and grants, as well as their resolution, both of the funds managed directly by the General Administration of the State, and of those transferred to the autonomous communities through the Sectoral Conferences and those executed by the local corporations,” said the delegate.
This tool “provides information on the number of companies and households that have received funding, as well as the size of the beneficiary companies and the investments made in the different levers of action defined in the Recovery Plan”.
It also provides details of the funds managed and executed in each autonomous community, as well as the number of companies that have received funding and the sectoral distribution of the projects. ELISA will be updated monthly and will incorporate new functionalities that allow a more qualitative analysis of the impact of the investments of the 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.
Almost 1.5 billion euros reach the economy of Castilla-La Mancha
"The information obtained through this database - said Milagros Tolón - confirms that the funds of the Recovery Plan are reaching cruising speed to the real economy and have a direct application on Castilla-La Mancha."
In this sense, since 2021, Castilla-La Mancha has been allocated a total of 2,125 million euros, of which 1,311 million are channeled through the Board of Communities after agreement in the Sectorial Conference, and the rest, 814 million, correspond to direct resolutions of the General Administration of the State.
Of these amounts, “resolutions have already been approved corresponding to tenders and grants made by the General Administration of the State, the regional government and local entities for a total value of 1,474 million euros that benefit 33,884 citizens, institutions and companies of Castilla-La Mancha, 56% of the beneficiaries being microenterprises and SMEs”.
“To date,” he insisted, a total of 33,884 companies, entities and citizens of Castilla-La Mancha, 56% SMEs, already have 1,474 million euros of European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain.”
Of these funds, 814 million euros come from calls made by the General Administration of the State, 586 million from those resolved by the Board of Communities with the resources allocated at the Sectorial Conferences and 73 million tendered by municipal corporations.
The largest volume of investment has been allocated to urban and rural agenda projects, with 28%, followed by sustainable infrastructure projects, with 19%, and modernization of the industrial fabric, with 15%.
The delegate of the Government has reiterated that all these data “are available in this new application that we present today in Castilla-La Mancha and that throws for our region an effective compliance of European resources and a good pace of execution both by the General Administration of the State, the regional Government and the local corporations, with a rate of 63.5% of resolution of calls, the third after Galicia and the Basque Country”.
National data
At the national level, the call resolution rate is 55.9%, with around 34.4 billion euros allocated to companies and households.
In Spain, 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.
“The figures indicate the significant amount of European funds aimed at transforming the Spanish economy through investments in projects for the sustainable development and modernization of the business fabric,” said Milagros Tolón, who referred to real projects and programs in different areas of development for Castilla-La Mancha that are also available in the application, among which he highlighted:
-30 million euros for 5 modernization works of more than 18,000 hectares of irrigation,
-More than 41 million euros for broadband extension in more than 95,000 homes and companies in more than 192 municipalities in our region,
-More than 50 million euros for unique local clean energy projects in municipalities of demographic challenge,
-More than 225 million euros for performances such as the renovation of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line as it passes through Castilla-La Mancha, or the humanization works of crossings of Talavera de la Reina, Noblejas or Toledo,
-24.7 million euros for the construction of 520 homes committed for social rent,
-102 million euros for 22 Tourist Sustainability Plans in Destination,
-in Education, 2,670 new VET places, of which 2,460 are bilingual, in 30 institutes in 22 municipalities; and 916 new places from 0 to 3 years in 42 municipalities
-The 11,752 SMEs and self-employed who have the digital kit, which has meant an investment of 53.9 million euros.
ELISA Application Use Guide
The application has five tabs:
- General monitoring
- Type of Action and awardees
- Adjudicators by headquarters
- Regional destination and type of action
- Tabs by CCAA regional
GENERAL TRACKING (Tab 1):
It contains information on the calls convened and those resolved since January 2021. It allows to parameterize the data by autonomous communities and cities and including or not -at choice- the local entities. It also shows the figures of the investment allocated in a sectoral conference, the total calls, the calls resolved and the resolution rate (%).
TYPE OF ACTION AND ADJUDICATOR (Tab 2):
It offers the figures around the calls resolved by each action lever (Rural Agenda, Science, Energy Transition, Culture...)
- AWARDEES PER SEAT (Tab 3):
It contains the total number of awardees per CCAA regional. The figure can be parameterized by CCAA in the interactive map that includes this tab.
- REGIONAL DESTINATION AND TYPE OF ACTION (Tab 4):
It contains an autonomous map with the amount resolved by CCAA (placing the cursor over each CCAA) and the weights of each lever in the total of that amount. It can be parameterized by CCAA in the interactive map that includes the tab and, at the same time, choose if we want to consult the data at the CCAA level, at the local entities level; or both options added together.
- CCAA LISTINGS (Tab 5):
It offers a small summary of the information contained in the previous tabs (calls, levers, awardees...). It is the most complete tab and also allows you to parameterize by CCAA regional and local entities. It also includes a link to the document with the most representative projects for each community.