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Catalonia AI 2030 Strategy approved to boost business competitiveness
On November 11, 2025, the Executive Council of the Government of Catalonia approved the Catalonia AI 2030 Strategy, an initiative that will mobilize up to €1 billion between 2025 and 2030. The aim of this plan is to put Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the service of business competitiveness, the modernization of public services, and territorial cohesion. The plan envisages 88 actions distributed across eight strategic areas and establishes a roadmap for ethical, secure AI.
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The goal is clear: to make AI a driver of competitiveness. However, this requires organizations to have flexible, scalable, and secure network infrastructures. An infrastructure capable of managing the increase in data, distributed connectivity, and performance requirements introduced by artificial intelligence.
An ambitious plan for advanced, cross-cutting digital transformation; a new technological reality that also requires state-of-the-art network infrastructures, such as SAIWALL Secure SD-WAN.
Catalonia AI Strategy: guiding principles
The Strategy argues that AI must be responsible, ensuring trust and the protection of rights. In order for artificial intelligence to truly transform the economy and society, the Catalan Government has defined a set of guiding principles:
- Ethics and democracy,
- transparency and continuous innovation,
- equity, diversity, and inclusion,
- territorial structuring and sustainability,
- and public-private collaboration.
The 8 strategic pillars of the plan
The Catalonia AI 2030 Strategy is structured around 8 pillars that bring together 88 actions to promote AI throughout the region.
Here is a brief overview of the program's pillars:
Pillar 1. AI infrastructures
Among other actions, it plans to:
- Promote the implementation of the public and sovereign cloud
- Promote the creation of gigafactories and AI factories
- Improve and extend broadband connectivity throughout the territory
Pillar 2. Talent in AI
New university degrees in AI, master's and doctoral degrees in applied AI, as well as intensive and accelerated training programs and lifelong learning in the productive sector are planned.
Pillar 3. AI research
Among other actions, the following are planned: support for pilot projects and technology transfer to the market, strengthening of research lines in key areas of AI, and promotion of European digital sovereignty by strengthening chip development infrastructures for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
It is estimated that more than a hundred applied AI projects will be developed in sectors such as health, energy, and mobility.
Pillar 4. AI in business
The plan is to promote technological sovereignty for priority sectors using AI and to promote a diagnostic, advisory, and support service for the adaptation of AI for SMEs and the self-employed.
This implementation of the Strategy will benefit more than 5,000 SMEs and self-employed workers (more information in Pillar 6).
Pillar 5. AI in the public sector
In the public sector, it envisages the transformation of more than 200 services and the training of more than 30,000 public sector workers.
Pillar 6. Ethics, regulation, and safeguards
A public registry of AI systems will be promoted and an AI business support service will be created within the existing Single Business Window. A self-assessment system for compliance with ethical and legal standards will also be incorporated.
Pillar 7. Digital society
Among other actions, awareness campaigns on AI will be promoted. The Catalan language will also be promoted in the AI environment.
Pillar 8. Global projection of Catalan AI
Ensure strategic mainstreaming in the promotion of public policies on AI, and establish bilateral agreements with international AI organizations and hubs.
Connectivity with SAIWALL SD-WAN for efficient AI
The Catalunya IA 2030 Strategy lays the foundations for technological and economic leadership in Catalonia. However, it must be borne in mind that artificial intelligence requires networks capable of moving data in real time, connecting multiple locations, integrating cloud services, and ensuring operational continuity even in highly critical scenarios.
Traditional architectures are not designed to support this new digital reality.
At SAIMA SYSTEMS, we believe in the democratization of connectivity and provide companies with a modern, flexible, scalable, and secure SAIWALL SD-WAN technology infrastructure that is ready for AI.
Artificial Intelligence needs intelligent connectivity to generate value. Connectivity is no longer a simple channel but has become the main enabler of AI. Therefore, companies that want to harness the potential of AI need to migrate to a next-generation SD-WAN infrastructure.
The SAIMA SYSTEMS solution, SAIWALL Secure SD-WAN, allows you to:
- Prioritize critical AI and advanced analytics traffic
- Secure communications with encryption and centralized control
- Integrate cloud, edge, and distributed services without complexity
- Maintain high performance levels across all locations
- Reduce network costs and simplify management (60-80% savings)
- Centralized management and security
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