Reinforcing skills in semiconductors
Advanced Digital Skills · DIGITAL-SIMPLE · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that build skills pipelines for the semiconductor industry in Europe. It supports two types of initiatives: a European academic network creating joint university curricula and scholarships for students, and a vocational training platform offering bootcamps and apprenticeships for technicians, with a strong focus on involving startups and SMEs and improving gender diversity.
semiconductors · education skills · sme scaleup · gender equality · advanced manufacturing
Who wins this
A consortium of universities, VET centres, and industry partners including startups and SMEs across multiple EU countries that wants to jointly design semiconductor education and training programmes.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- DIGITAL-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: from 5 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- higher education institution, vocational training centre, industry, SME, startup
- Also required
- Projects must involve at least 5 Member States and, for the vocational training strand, at least 20 startups and SMEs.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System 2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document 3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document