The subdelegate of the Government in Lugo, Isabel Rodríguez, today highlighted the great impact that the Digital Kit program is having in the province with which the Government granted aid to more than 2,000 companies and self-employed Lucenses to digitize their businesses. “We have injected a total of 8 million euros into Lugo through this aid plan to transform our productive fabric and make it more competitive, demonstrating, once again, that the funds of the Recovery Plan are reaching all sectors of the territory,” said Isabel Rodríguez.
Isabel Rodríguez traveled to Friol this morning to visit the eco-store of Tralograo, a family business beneficiary of the Digital Kit voucher that produces, transforms, elaborates and markets certified organic beef and poultry of its own production. There, its manager, Isabel Gómez, explained to the subdelegate that thanks to the help of 6,000 euros from the Government they will be able to modernize and renew the website of the business and hire an external company to manage social networks and improve the positioning of the business on the Internet, in order to further professionalize their ecommerce in which in addition to products made by them, they sell different foods of ecological origin.
“Traloagro is an example of how the Government’s investments help to digitally transform Portuguese businesses, promoting new opportunities for expansion and opening up to new markets to guarantee their future but also their present, because digitalization is a reality that we cannot avoid,” said Isabel Rodríguez, who valued the welcome of this program “a symptom that Galician companies want to modernize and trust the Government’s programs to do so.”
In this regard, the subdelegate indicated that the productive fabric of the province of Lugo consists mainly of small and autonomous companies. For this reason, he valued initiatives such as the Digital Kit program that “allow the self-employed and SMEs to get on the digital bandwagon with solutions according to their situation. Only in this way will they be able to compete on equal terms with companies of other dimensions and from other territories,” he defended.
For the Digital Kit program, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation allocates a budget of 3,067 million euros from the funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan to digitize the nearly one million SMEs and self-employed throughout the national territory over the next three years. These government grants aim to advance the digitization of key areas such as Internet presence, web design, e-sales, customer and supplier management, digital office, social media, process management and automation, and cybersecurity.
Open the 3 help lines
As Rodríguez explained, the Government has the 3 calls for the digitization program open. On the one hand, there is the line directed to the companies of between 10 and 49 employees who can apply for the bonus of 12,000 euros until March 15, 2023. On the other hand, for companies with 3 to 9 employees, the deadline is open until September 2 with grants of 6,000 euros. And a third line for businesses of less than three employees and self-employed who can apply for 2,000 euros until October 20, 2023.
The subdelegate called on small businesses and self-employed Lucenses to encourage and request the Digital Kit “and do not miss the opportunity to receive direct aid to update their businesses with digital solutions.”