The Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote and La Graciosa and the National Federation of Associations of Self-Employed Workers (ATA) have signed an agreement in which it is agreed that the Chamber will advise and inform about the free service offered by ATA for the management of the application for the Digital Kit aid from the Government of Spain to promote the digitization of small companies, micro-enterprises and self-employed workers through the Next Generation European funds.
The agreement signed between the president of the Chamber, José Valle Martínez, and the president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, strengthens the work of both the Chamber and ATA to inform, disseminate and support the business fabric in terms of innovation and digital transformation. Thus, both entities will offer coordinated actions in their activities to promote the digital advancement of local companies.
The Chamber of Commerce offers an advisory and training service through its Oficina Acelera pyme, within the framework of the collaboration between Cámara España and Red.es, for awareness in innovation and digital transformation.
For its part, ATA has designed and developed a service for the management of the process of submission of the application of the Digital Kit program, which after the signing of this agreement is available to self-employed workers in Lanzarote.
13,000 SMEs and self-employed workers in Lanzarote can benefit from the aid
It is estimated that more than 6,700 self-employed workers in Lanzarote could benefit from these digital bonds, a figure to which 6,000 more companies with the potential to access this aid would have to be added. In total, about 13,000 beneficiaries.
José Valle stressed that "this agreement with ATA complements the free services offered by the Chamber through the Oficina Acelera pyme, in the digital advancement of our business fabric. This is a very important commitment to adapt our productive fabric to the new business scenario, to the new demands of environmental sustainability and distribution channels, through digital tools, remote work, electronic commerce and digital marketing," he said.
Lorenzo Amor, president of ATA, has referred to this agreement as an opportunity "to be able to access a subsidy that will take us further, be more efficient, more sustainable and more competitive. In the end, that will make us sell more." In the latest ATA Barometer presented just a few days ago, it was detected "that there is still a 17.9% of self-employed workers to whom the information about this fund has not reached well. And it adds to the 54.8% who have not yet requested it.
Less than a third of self-employed workers have started the procedures for the application, so we are going to make every effort to remedy this situation and ensure that all self-employed workers have access to the funds," Amor added.