EU promises significant funds to boost local semiconductor production 20 May 2021 | News
Pledge to support domestic chip fabs as EU’s dependence on Asian supplies of these essential components hits production of finished goods. Meanwhile, Brussels advances battery project in another bid restore technology independencechip
Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market. Photo: European Commission
The EU is ready to commit “significant” funds to expand Europe’s semiconductor manufacturing industry, industry commissioner Thierry Breton pledged on Thursday, amid fears that the global chip shortage is damaging the bloc’s automakers and electronics suppliers.
After a meeting at Dutch equipment supplier ASML, Breton said Europe would need to expand its manufacturing capacity of mid-level chips before it could achieve a goal of doubling Europe’s share of global semiconductor production to 20% and producing leading-edge 2-nanometer chips by 2030.
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The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) welcomes four new members to the EIT Governing Board: Jan Figel, Janis Grevins, Nora Khaldi, and Razvan Nicolescu.
The members were appointed by the European Commission and Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth said:
‘The Governing Board is central to the EIT’s governance and the strategic orientation, and I am delighted that these outstanding innovation practitioners are willing to share their valuable experience and knowledge to guide the EIT in its contribution to the green and digital transitions. They are joining the Governing Board at a crucial time, as the EIT starts to implement its new Strategic Innovation Agenda 2021-2027, which offers more opportunities for innovators and entrepreneurs across the EU to work on concrete solutions to the societal challenges we are facing.
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The University of Tartu (UT) is Estonia’s leading institution of research and higher education. In the Times Higher Education New Europe Ranking 2018, it was ranked as the best university in the 13 countries that have joined the EU since 2004. UT is a driver of inclusive and sustainable growth and innovation in Estonia, Europe and globally.
As an influential research centre:
We belong in the top 1% of the world s most-cited universities and research institutions in clinical medicine, chemistry, environment/ecology, plant and animal science, geosciences, social sciences, psychiatry/psychology, pharmacology and toxicology, neuroscience and behaviour, biology and biochemistry, clinical medicine, microbiology.