The Canary Islands will allocate 700,000 euros to boost the digitalization of the business fabric through the Digiempresas 2026 call, a line of aid from the Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and Information Society (ACIISI) aimed at supporting technological projects in companies of the Archipelago with subsidies of up to 25,000 euros.
The area's counselor, Migdalia Machín, has already signed the order that regulates this call, whose extract will be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) before the end of March.
The aid, which will be granted under a competitive bidding regime, will allow financing projects with subsidies of between 5,000 and 25,000 euros, depending on the type of action and the size of the company.
Among the subsidizable actions are included the implementation of enterprise management systems (ERP), management of customer relations (CRM), business intelligence tools (BI), cybersecurity solutions or applications based on artificial intelligence, among other technologies aimed at optimizing processes and improving business competitiveness.
The counselor Migdalia Machín pointed out that this call is part of the strategy of the Government of the Canary Islands to accelerate the modernization of the productive fabric of the Archipelago. In this regard, she highlighted that the objective is “to facilitate that our companies make a qualitative leap in the use of technology and can compete in an increasingly digitized economic environment”.
Machín also stressed that the Digiempresas program seeks to bring technological innovation to small and medium-sized enterprises, which constitute the majority of the Canarian business fabric. “We want digital transformation to also reach SMEs and for no company to be left behind in this process,” he added.
After its publication in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC), interested companies will have 15 calendar days to submit their applications, which must be processed exclusively electronically through the electronic headquarters of the Government of the Canary Islands.