On Tuesday 6 February, the European Commission announced that the European semiconductor joint undertaking (or Chips Joint Undertaking) had launched calls for proposals worth €216 million to support research and innovation (R&I) in the fields of semiconductors, microelectronics and photonics.
This budget must be supplemented by proportional funding from the States participating in the joint undertaking, as well as by private investment.
This joint undertaking was launched to strengthen public and private funding for research and innovation in the semiconductor sector with the aim of reinforcing the European Union’s strategic autonomy (see EUROPE 13305/14).
The calls for proposals, on topics related to the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, will be open to consortia bringing together industry stakeholders from across the EU.
A specific joint call with South Korea concerns heterogeneous integration technologies and so-called neuromorphic computing, which imitates the way the brain works. A digital partnership between the EU and South Korea was announced by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the South Korean President, Yoon Suk Yeol, on 28 November 2022 (see EUROPE 13072/9).
The first deadline for submitting proposals is 14 May.
Link to the description of the calls on the website of the joint undertaking: https://aeur.eu/f/aq6 (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)