The Government, through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service, has published the final resolution proposal of the call for grants of the Chairs Chip program, which allocates 192,953 euros to Navarre to create a chair in Microelectronic Design of Wireless Sensors without Battery at the University of Navarre.
The Chip Chairs, within the framework of the Strategic Project of Microelectronics and Semiconductors (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 towards 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.