New assistance of up to 24,000 euros for small and medium-sized companies will be provided by AI.
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The government is launching a new program to help SMEs who want to improve their cybersecurity or are looking for ways to implement AI.
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To check documentation and detect plagiarism, Red.es will use artificial intelligence created for this case.
New assistance to small and medium-sized businesses will start in mid-June. From the Digital Kit we move on to the new Advisory Kit, a government assistance program that aims to modernize SMEs and help them adopt one of the most common technologies of our time: artificial intelligence.
Helps companies learn how to take advantage of AI. Consulting Kit is a digital consulting assistance program. That is, the government will provide a bonus that varies depending on the size of the company and will help cover the hiring of advisory services related to artificial intelligence, data analytics and cybersecurity.
The list of options is as follows:
- Artificial Intelligence Advisory Service
- Data Analytics Consulting Service
- Digital Sales Consulting Service
- Consulting services for business processes or production processes
- Business Strategy and Performance Advisory Service
- Cyber Security Advisory Service
- 360 advisory service in the field of digital transformation
12,000 euros for companies with 10 to 50 employees. For each contracted service, the maximum subsidy amount will be 6,000 euros. But the same company might request, for example, an AI consultation and another cybersecurity consultation. For this reason, the Kit Consulting program sets limits depending on the size of the company.
Up to 12,000 euros for companies with 10 to 50 employees; 18,000 euros for companies with 50 to 100 employees and up to 24,000 euros for medium-sized companies with 100 to 250 employees.
Among the requirements that a company must meet are having a tax domicile in Spain, complying with tax obligations and registering with the Business Census.
300 million euros come from Europe. The total budget of the program is 300 million euros, which comes from NextGenerationEU funds. The government explains that this assistance is part of its Artificial Intelligence Strategy, in which a total of 1.5 billion euros will be invested.
AI as a processing system. As an innovation and with the justification of “reducing bureaucratic burden,” Kit Consulting will have “an automated data processing system with robotics and artificial intelligence tools to reduce the number of documents submitted and shorten concession times.”
Red.es, the public organization responsible for this assistance, has created this artificial intelligence platform as support. Without elaborating, they explain that “an LLM system has been established to detect plagiarism, copying and check the quality of submitted documents.”
“Digital Advisor” figure. As with the Digital Kit, the figure of digitalization agents was created, and now Digital Advisors are emerging. These are the companies responsible for providing advice on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data and the rest of the program’s training.
How to order them. A form will be created to request assistance in mid-June for various calls. Assistance will be provided on a strict application basis until funds are exhausted. As an innovation, the Consultation Kit will also allow assistance to be requested from a “voluntary representative”, i.e. a manager.
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