Red.es, an entity attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, will enable, from 11 a.m. today, the specific form of the call addressed to communities of goods, civil societies with commercial activity, professional civil societies and agricultural holdings of shared ownership. These entities that meet the requirements and have fewer than 50 employees will be able to apply for their digital voucher. As in the previous calls for proposals, the aid will be differentiated according to this data: Segment I (entities between 10 and less than 50 employees), Segment II (entities between 3 and less than 10 employees) and Segment III (entities between 0 and less than 3 employees).
The new call that was published on July 22 in the BOE (https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2023/07/22/pdfs/BOE-B-2023-22273.pdf) details the requirements to apply for aid, the obligations incurred by the beneficiaries, the maximum amounts of aid for each category of digitization solutions, the justification, payment and control of the implementation of the solutions, among other important matters. This call has an initial budget of 100 million euros that can be expanded and aims to improve the competitiveness and digital maturity of the aforementioned entities.
Support can be requested as of today
It will be today, September 12, at 11 a.m. when communities of property, jointly owned farms, professional civil societies and civil societies with commercial objectives will be able to request this assistance from the Digital Kit program through the electronic headquarters of Red.es (https://sede.red.gob.es). To be eligible, they must be registered in the Census of Businessmen, 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 developed at the date of application for aid, and have a minimum age of 6 months. The deadline for submitting applications will remain open until December 31, 2024.
How to request the help of Kit Digital
We remind you of the steps to apply for the grants of this program:
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 headquarters of Red.es (https://sede.red.gob.es).
Once it is verified that the entity meets the requirements, the digital bonus is granted which may be € 12,000, € 6,000 or € 2,000 depending on its size. The beneficiary entity may also consult the catalogue of digitizing agents at http://www.acelerapyme.es. 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 for the provision of 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, it has designed a highly 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, which aims to promote the digitization of small businesses, microenterprises and self-employed people, as well as other entities such as communities of goods, agricultural holdings of shared ownership and professional civil societies and for commercial purposes, to contribute to modernizing the Spanish productive fabric.
The program 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.