The call text for call topic HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-CSA-JPN has been updated in the section "Expected outcomes".
The updated version of the expected outcomes reads as follows:
- Support joint activities of companies in the semiconductor value chain to improve security of supply for chips and increase the resilience of the ecosystems in the EU and Japan.
- Support joint R&I and industrial cooperation activities between the EU and Japan
- Contribute to preparing potential future joint EU-Japan R&I collaboration topics in the field of semiconductors.
- Explore opportunities to finance talent exchanges between R&D or production sites in both regions.
- Foster increased EU-Japan cooperation with appropriate research institutions and semiconductor companies in Japan on the development, deployment and commercialisation of digital technologies, for example through specific collaboration in the field of R&I or matchmaking events.
- Coordinate ongoing Japanese and EU R&I activities on life cycle assessment (LCA) of semiconductor manufacturing processes and facilitate exchange of researchers to improve coherence.