Chips

Chips — also known as semiconductors — are the building block of all electronic products. They play a central role in our modern economies and our daily lives. Chips underpin the digital transformation and are essential to all industries, such as the car industry, communications, data processing, space, defence, smart devices and gaming, to name a few. The European Chips Act (2023) will boost Europe’s technological sovereignty, competitiveness, resilience and contribute to the digital and green transitions.

It focuses on 5 strategic objectives:

• strengthening research and technological leadership
• building and reinforcing Europe’s capacity to innovate in the design, manufacturing and packaging of advanced chips
• putting in place an adequate framework to increase production by 2030
• addressing the skills shortage and attracting new talent
• developing an in-depth understanding of global semiconductor supply chains
   

The semiconductos industry needs a lot of new talent, of which a large part are people with STEM skills. All STEM networks of our coalition thus also focus on the Chips industry as well. 
The European STEM Coalition is participating in two projects financed by the EU Commission through the Dutch STEM Platform (PTvT).