Project
European Research Infrastructure on Semiconductor Chips
Description
InfraChip is to implement the first integrated, distributed research infrastructure as a wider European research platform for the sustainable development of next-generation and future semiconductor chips. InfraChip will mobilise a critical mass of people, expert knowledge and technology blocks, and capital investment on state-of-the-art equipment to address the EU’s twin digital and green transition and ensure Europe’s capacity to innovate at the early to medium readiness levels. Building on existing RI communities, namely ASCENT+ on Nanoelectronics, EMERGE on Sustainable Flexible Electronics and EnABLES on Powering the Internet of Things (IoT), the InfraChip initiative will advance the state-of-the-art by supporting comprehensive user projects for multi-and-transdisciplinary path-finding research on sustainable Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). These challenge-driven projects will target the introduction of new materials, proof-of-concept and feasibility studies of new manufacturing processes or disruptive technologies. To accelerate the translation of results from the lab to the fab, InfraChip will channel project activities to Testing and Experimentation Facilities, European Digital Innovation Hubs and Pilot Lines. InfraChip will also develop talent and train a skilled workforce through its Research Accelerator Programme and additional hands-on courses and education resources to support early career innovators and the high-value semiconductor industry. As a whole, InfraChip will significantly contribute to research and innovation capacity within the objectives of the European Chips Act
Financing
Project funded by the Horizon Europe programme under a contract with the European Research Executive Agency.
Coordinator
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK (TYNDALL)
Partners
ELLINIKO MESOGEIAKO PANEPISTIMIO (HMU)
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH „DEMOKRITOS” (NCSRD)
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS (CNRS)
UNINOVA-INSTITUTO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIASASSOCIACAO
LABORATORIO IBERICO INTERNACIONAL DE NANOTECNOLOGIA LIN (INL)
JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (JOR)
CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB (CHALMERS)
GESELLSCHAFT FUR ANGEWANDTE MIKRO UND OPTOELEKTRONIK MIT
BESCHRANKTERHAFTUNG AMO GMBH (AMO)
POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA (WUT)
INSTITUT SINANO ASSOCIATION (SiNANO)
MINALOGIC AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES (MINALOGIC)
SILICON SAXONY E.V. (SiSax)
Project No
101131822 — INFRACHIP — HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01
Project value
14 457 464.38 EUR