The Government of Spain’s Digital Kit programme has already reached 530,000 SMEs and the self-employed, which represents 80% of the target committed to with Brussels in the Recovery Plan, as announced by the Minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, Óscar López.

The Minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, Óscar López, visits Oficina Acelera Pyme MadridThe Minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, Óscar López, visits Oficina Acelera Pyme Madrid.

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The Digital Kit programme has reached 530,000 beneficiaries, 80% of the target committed to Brussels

‘Spain and its SMEs are making progress in digital transformation with programmes such as Kit Digital and Kit Consulting, in which we have invested 2,300 million euros’, said the minister about the initiatives managed by the public business entity Red.es, attached to the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service.

Óscar López visited the Acelera Pyme Office at the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers headquarters on Saturday. This office is one of 155 managed by Red.es throughout Spain. In collaboration with business associations, professional associations and technology centres, these offices have provided advice and support on new technologies to 160,000 SMEs and the self-employed throughout the country.

During the visit, the minister met with representatives of three small companies that have taken part in the initiative and with one of the Acelera pyme advisors who support them. ‘It has been a very enlightening meeting to see the powerful impact on the reality of small businesses of these programmes, which provide everything from training to help in renewing equipment, and the suggestions that these entrepreneurs have given us will be very useful for us to provide a service that is increasingly tailored to the very diverse needs of users’.

The minister also highlighted the good progress of the Kit Consulting programme, which offers vouchers to contract consultancy services for companies in digital transformation. In just five months, the programme has awarded 7,400 grants, more than half of the target set by Brussels to impact at least 15,000 companies. The number of applications received exceeds this figure.