Spain accelerates data sharing with an aid plan for companies and administrations

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Fecha de la noticia: 16-07-2025

Spain is taking a key step towards the data economy with the launch of the Data Spaces Kit, an aid programme that will subsidise the integration of public and private entities in sectoral data spaces.

Data spaces are secure ecosystems in which organizations, both public and private, share information in an interoperable way, under common rules and with privacy guarantees. These allow new products to be developed, decision-making to be improved and operational efficiency to be increased, in sectors such as health, mobility or agri-food, among others.

Today, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, through the Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, has published in the Official State Gazette the rules governing the granting of aid to entities interested in effectively joining a data space.

This programme, which is called the "Data Spaces Kit", will be managed by Red.es and will subsidise the costs incurred by the beneficiary entities to achieve their incorporation into an eligible data space, i.e. one that meets the requirements set out in the bases, from the day of their publication.

Recipients and Funding

This aid plan is aimed at both public and private entities, as well as Public Administrations. Among the beneficiaries of these grants are the participants, which are those entities that seek to integrate into these ecosystems to share and take advantage of data and services.

For the execution of this plan, the Government has launched aid of up to 60 million euros that will be distributed, depending on the type of entity or the level of integration as follows:

Private and public entities with economic activity will have an aid of up to €15,000 under the effective incorporation regime or up to €30,000 if they join as a supplier.
On the other hand, Public Administrations will have funding of up to €25,000 if they are effectively incorporated, or up to €50,000 if they do so as a supplier.

The incorporation of companies from different sectors in the data spaces will generate benefits both at the business level and for the national economy, such as increasing the innovation capacity of the beneficiary companies, the creation of new products and services based on data analysis and the improvement of operational efficiency and decision-making.

The call is expected to be published during the fourth quarter of 2025. The subsidies will be applied for on a non-competitive basis, on a first-come, first-served basis and until the available funds are exhausted.

The publication of these regulatory bases in the Official State Gazette (BOE) aims to boost the data ecosystem in Spain, strengthen the competitiveness of the economy at the global level and consolidate the financial sustainability of innovative business models.