EDIH MADRID REGION

Madrid is a Spanish region covering only 1.6% (8,030 km2) of the country’s area but it generates 19,3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and where 14,2% (6.7 million) of the population of the Country live. Madrid Region has one of the major enterprise’s densities of all country, 85.8 companies per 1,000 inhabitants and it concentrates near 16,2% of all companies in Spain. In total, there are 552,027 enterprises in the Region . This makes Madrid Region a Business decision Centre. The EDIH MADRID REGION is created with the aim of being the reference Centre to improve the digitization of both public sector and small and medium-sized companies in Madrid Region. To achieve this ambitious goal, EDIH MADRID REGION is made up of a powerful consortium of 11 partners. EDIH MADRID REGION is led (coordinated) and co-financed by the regional government of Madrid. One of the members of the consortium is the Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d (Fmi+d), which is the coordinator of the Madrid node of the European Enterprise Network (EEN). In this way, it is ensured that EDIH MADRID REGION will offer a continuous service with EEN and Startup Europe. Among the EDIH MADRID REGION partners there are several partners who have a deep understanding of the needs of the entities to which the services to be provided by the EDIH are addressed. EDIH MADRID REGION partners include several partners with extensive experience in developing solutions based on the key digital technologies of the Digital Europe programme. Based on the key sectors identified in the previous strategy, the regional policies in various areas, the priorities of the Digital Europe program and the experience of the partners of the EDIH MADRID REGION consortium, it has been decided to prioritize the following economic sectors to give their digitization support services: o SMEs in the services sector o SMEs in the industrial sector: Industry 4.0 o Regional and municipal public administration o The area of mobility