More than one million euros for the Chip UCLM chair
The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) will receive more than one million one hundred thousand euros from the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service for the creation of the Chip UCLM Chair on Design of Microelectronic Systems based on Open Architectures, which will direct the Professor Juan Carlos López.
The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) is one of the seventeen Spanish universities beneficiaries of aid for the training of experts in microelectronics and semiconductors in the provisional resolution of the call for aid from the Cátedras Chip program, the Ministry's initiative to the Digital Transformation and the Public Service through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure.
The UCLM will receive more than one million one hundred thousand euros for the creation of the UCLM Chip Chair on Design of Microelectronic Systems based on Open Architectures (DMA2), which will be directed by the professor of the Higher School of Informatics of Ciudad Real Juan Carlos López, professor of Technologies and Information Systems at UCLM and director of the Computer Architecture and Networks (ARCO) research group, which works on the design of intelligent interconnected systems.
In total, the Government of Spain will grant aid of forty-five million euros to seventeen initiatives presented in which eighty companies participate, individually or in a consortium, for the establishment of university-business chairs in the area of microelectronics.
This program, aimed at financing university-business chairs in both public and private centers, will mobilize a public-private investment of 54,5 million euros. The objective of these grants is to reinforce research, dissemination and training in the field of microelectronics. Specifically, they focus on four areas: microelectronic circuit design, new materials and devices, technological processes, and chip testing and encapsulation.
Within the framework of the PERTE Chip and the European project to achieve digital sovereignty and strategic autonomy of the EU, the Government aims to train at least a thousand professionals in this sector that demands highly qualified personnel with the Cátedras Chip program, financed with Next Generation EU funds.
The projects presented and beneficiaries of this aid to establish higher studies in 17 Spanish universities will have a minimum duration of four years.
UCLM Communication Office. Ciudad Real, February 9, 2024 [Original news on uclm.es]
