Specific Objective 6
Semiconductors
Digital Europe finances part of the Chips for Europe Initiative, aiming at large-scale technological capacity building and innovation in the semiconductor sector.
Your NCP contact for this programme
Marie Timmermann
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About this programme
About the programme
The aim of the European Chips Act, is to bolster Europe’s competitiveness and resilience in semiconductor technologies and applications to support the green and digital transition. The Chips for Europe Initiative, part of the EU Chips Act, aims to reinforce the European semiconductor ecosystem and Europe’s technological leadership and will be implemented by the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU).
The Chips JU, with funding from both Digital Europe and Horizon Europe, will
- Set up pre-commercial, innovative pilot lines, providing industry state-of-the-art facilities to test, experiment and validate semiconductor technologies and system design concepts;
- Deploy a cloud-based Design Platform for design companies across the EU;
- Support the development of advanced technology and engineering capacities for quantum chips;
- Establish a network of competence centres and promote skills development.
The Chips JU is a public-private partnership that supports research, development, and manufacturing capacities in the European semiconductor ecosystem.
Latest news
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
Chips JU updated work programme
The Chips Joint Undertaking has published an update of its 2023-2027 Multiannual Work Programme, with significant updates to its strategic initiatives for 2025. The Chips JU manages calls for funding both under Horizon Europe and Digital Europe. An overview of the updates can be found on the Chips JU website, as is the work programme. read more
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
Open calls on quantum-chip technology
The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) has opened calls to support semiconductor research and innovation initiatives. This is the first call in quantum technologies with the aim to step up investment in frontier technologies, in particular quantum chips for computing and sensing. The EU funding for this call of €65 million is expected to... read more
Digital Europe HPC AI, data & cloud Cybersecurity
Consultations on Digital Europe programme
The European Commission is still collecting input on the Digital Europe programme by means of two consultations. The results of these consultations will feed into the mid-term evaluation of Digital Europe. Open Stakeholder Consultation The Open Stakeholder Consultation seeks to gain insights into the needs of stakeholders in the digital tran... read more
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
Chips JU call for Design Platform
The Chips Joint Undertaking has opened a new call for proposal for a Design Platform (DIGITAL-Chips-2024-CSA-CDP-1). This call concerns the selection of the consortium in charge of the overall coordination of the Design Platform, referred to as the Platform Coordination Team (PCT), which shall serve as the hosting entity for the Design Platform&rs... read more
Upcoming events
Digital, Industry & Space Semiconductors
Chips - ECS Brokerage Event 2025
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Testimonial
Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
