The Government is finalizing the second installment of the business digitization plan financed with EU funds, which will consist of a check for 3,000 euros for individual self-employed workers and those SMEs with less than ten workers. The aid will be available, as elEconomista has learned, starting next year, and is added to the first phase of this plan, endowed with a total of 3,067 million euros. The first phase will have a total of 500 million euros and will be allocated to companies with between 10 and 49 workers, so that the second package will be endowed with funds worth 2,500 million.
In other words, the second tranche of aid for digitization will go to smaller shops and businesses, where in many cases the bases for digitization are nil. According to sources close to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, this measure would be available for the first months of next year, although, as is the case with the first of the tranches that will grant 12,500 euros to those companies with a low digitization rate, there is still a long way to go. tender the companies that will provide the necessary tools for the technologization of these businesses.
For this reason, these sources point out that this is a point still to be developed within this great plan to modernize the productive fabric. Once the order of bases, which will include the operation of the program, is published in the next few days, a public invitation will go out so that digitizing agents can join the program and offer their solutions.
Industry sources point out that the plan loses effectiveness due to the excessive distribution of the fund
However, from the group of self-employed workers they point out skepticism about the usefulness of these 3,000 euros for the final objective of digitization. Remember that this last group of micro-SMEs and the self-employed are the ones that have incorporated the least innovation and technology into their businesses, which also implies a training deficit in the matter that can mean that the extension of the aid does not serve to achieve the final objective of modernization. , given the inability of workers to deploy the possibilities offered by the new tools.
For this reason, from the collective they suggest that given the meager amount provided for this second round of aid for digitization, it is suggested that a training plan be opened to prepare workers when dealing with the process, so that it is as possible cash.
In the same way, sources from the sector point out to elEconomista that the plan loses effectiveness due to the excessive distribution of the fund, and they point out that it would be preferable to provide more financing to fewer self-employed workers and micro-SMEs, but with a greater monetary amount, which really allows them to equip and expand the business through digital channels, so that the process is completed with this service.
Between the two groups identified by the Government, there are approximately 145,000 small companies (10 to 49 employees) that would be the recipients of the first line of concessions of the Digital Kit. While in the other group, there are approximately 1,100,000 micro-enterprises (one to nine employees) and the 1,600,000 self-employed workers in Spain, who would be the target of this second tranche of aid worth 3,000 euros.
In order to reach all the companies spread throughout our geography, the Government announced for the deployment of the first part of the plan the opening of 50 Acelera Pyme offices for rural areas, in addition to the 90 already projected.
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