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06 September 2026
FAMES Academy: a four-year training programme for chip designers opens with its first Design School
Learning materials
06 September 2026
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The FAMES Academy, running alongside the FAMES pilot line described separately above, held its first European FD-SOI Design School in Grenoble from 25-30 January 2026, training engineers in the foundations of chip design using Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator technology. The second Open Call is in preparation for 2026.
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EU-27
France
Academic / Research and VET Institutions
Company with 250 or more employees
SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)
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Advanced Manufacturing Organisation Types
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Industrial Software & Technology Providers
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Robotics and Automation Companies
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Technology areas
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Electronics, Semiconductors, Power Electronics
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The Academy is a four-year programme of training courses and workshops, complementing facility access for SMEs, start-ups and academic researchers alongside large industrial users. For component and machinery manufacturers whose products depend on power-efficient chips - increasingly the case as edge computing and IoT sensing spread through industrial equipment - this is a concrete, accessible route to build in-house or partner expertise in a specific, EU-prioritised chip design discipline, rather than relying entirely on external suppliers' design capacity.
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