● The final proposal can be consulted in this link
Madrid, April 23, 2024.- The Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, has published the proposal for a final resolution of the call for grants of the ‘Chip Chairs’ program. These, within the framework of the Microelectronics and Semiconductors Strategic Project (PERTE Chip), aim to achieve the digital sovereignty of the European Union and consolidate in Spain this sector to continue generating qualified employment and economic synergies.
After the evaluation of the allegations and the meeting of the Evaluation Committee - of which members of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Public Service and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities are part - it has been agreed to grant grants of 45 million euros to 17 initiatives in which 80 companies participate, individually or in consortium, for the establishment of university-company chairs in the area of microelectronics and semiconductors.
The Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, María González Veracruz, has celebrated the launch of this program “since the Government of Spain is focused on reindustrializing our country, and consolidating the microelectronics sector here. We decided to invest in the training of specialists for this sector, since our greatest value is in talent. These chairs will train 1,000 new professionals in the areas of microelectronics and semiconductors, who will have at their disposal the financing of free training credits to guarantee equal opportunities.”
González Veracruz highlights that “with the launch of the call for Missions and Chairs chips, and the advances to implement in Spain the second center worldwide of IMEC, the leading Institute in research and development of nanoelectronics and digital technologies, we intend to sow talent throughout the territory. It is a key step for the emergence and further attraction of important projects within the framework of the PERTE Chip, and this has an impact on continuing to create numerous quality jobs and a more industrial and robust economy.”
This programme definitively translates into the funding of 17 university-business chairs in both public and private centres, and the mobilisation of a public-private investment of 54.5 million euros, with the aim of strengthening and boosting training in the field of microelectronics and semiconductors.
The programme, funded by the Next Generation EU funds, will have a minimum duration of four years and will result in 1,000 new highly qualified and highly demanded profiles by the sector.
This resolution represents a new impulse to place Spain as a reference in the field of microelectronics and semiconductors, since it focuses on the training of qualified talent, which is key to the growth and strengthening of the sector.
ANNEX
| Project | Enfidad Applicant | Proposed subsidy |
|---|---|---|
| Microelectronic Design of Wireless Sensors without Battery | UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE | 192,953,98 |
| UPM-INDRA Chair in Microelectronics (CAUPIME) | POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID | 4.201.038.72 |
| Chips for Advanced Architectures and Photonic Systems (CAASFO) | POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF CATALUNY | 3.761.789,45 |
| Chip UCLM Chair on Open Architecture Based Microelectronic Systems Design (DMA2) | UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA | 1,119,024,47 |
| MALAGA MICROELECTRONICS | UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA | 5.500,000.00 |
| Chair of Advanced Materials for the Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Industry | UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA | 5,076,634,16 |
| Chair Chip Cantabria | UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA | 387,150,00 |
| Chair Televes in Microelectronic Design | UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA | 1.580.875.00 |
| UPV-VaSiC International Chair of Microelectronic Design, towards the International Semiconductor Campus | POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA | 3,848,581,25 |
| EPIQ University-Business Chair: Integrated electronic and photonic circuits for quantum technologies | CARLOS III UNIVERSITY OF MADRID | 1.057.300,00 |
| Open Access to Testing and Characterization Tools for New Generation Photonic and Electronic Chip-NEXTCHIP | UNIVERSITY OF VIGO | 4,737,227,00 |
| Advanced Technologies for Testing, Assembly and Encapsulation of Electronic and Photonic Integrated Circuits - EPICPack | CARLOS III UNIVERSITY OF MADRID | 3.066.500,00 |
| KATUTXIPI | UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY | 347,500,00 |
| SOC4SENSING - System-onChip design with specialized sensors and associated training | UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY | 1.199.693.00 |
| +QCHIP: Transforming the Semiconductor Industry through the monolithic integration of CMOS Circuits and Innovative Technologies | UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA | 1.218.333,00 |
| Photonic chip chair at the Universitat Politècnica de València (PIC-UPV chair) | POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA | 4.246.339,00 |
| USECHIP: Chair in Microelectronics of the University of Seville | UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE | 4.200.000,00 |
| 45,740,948,03 |