The Council of Ministers has given the green light to a Royal Decree that regulates the direct granting of a subsidy by Red.es, a public body dependent on the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Service through the State Secretariat for Digitalization and AI, to the organization Unión Profesional. This subsidy is intended to launch a Training Program in Digital Skills aimed at Professional Associations, and has been promoted by the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Service itself.
The initiative is part of Investment 3, which aims to improve Digital Skills for Employment within Component 19 of the National Digital Capabilities Plan, part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. This plan, linked to the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy and its fourth lever, “Promoting talent in AI”, was presented last May.
The entity will grant a subsidy to Unión Profesional, which groups together the country’s General Councils and professional associations
The allocated grant amounts to 200 million euros and seeks to enhance the digital skills of professionals. Red.es will grant these funds to Unión Profesional, which brings together 34 General and Superior Councils of Professional Associations at a national level in sectors such as law, health, economics, social science, architecture, engineering and education. This network includes approximately 1,000 professional associations, representing a total of 1,700,000 professionals.
Red.es: training in digitalization and AI
The training programme will be aimed primarily at employees, the unemployed and professionals affiliated with the various General Councils and Professional Associations at state level. The activities covered by the grant will include not only training in digital skills, but also tasks related to dissemination, management, support, project management, auditing, legal advice, regulatory compliance, financial control and pedagogical quality, among others.
This project will enable 80,000 professionals to be trained through a 150-hour training programme in a hybrid format. The subsidised activities must be completed by 30 June 2026.
