January 7, 2025. On January 8, 2025, the joint work of the skills4chips project to establish a national training academy for microelectronics and microsystems technology began with a kick-off event at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
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The aim of the initiative, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with over 12 million euros, is to respond to the challenges of the growing demand for skilled workers and changes in the labor market with innovative and contemporary personnel development modules in micro and nanotechnologies. Under the name Microtec Academy, offers along the entire educational chain from career orientation to dual training, lateral entry and further education and training will be bundled in future and made accessible to as many potential users as possible.
The University of Magdeburg is the only institution in the state of Saxony-Anhalt to participate in the joint project. The Microtechnology Unit at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, which is based at the Rectorate, is working with the Chair of Vocational Education, focusing on the development of industrial and technical professions, and the Chair of Business Education at the university to develop a target group-specific and permeable training and further education concept.
In addition to Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, the project consortium of the skills4chips joint project consists of six other partners with different expertise: the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut Berlin as the project coordinator, the regional vocational training center of the district of Steinburg, the Institute of Microtechnology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, the Department of Computer Science and Microsystems Engineering at Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, microTEC SĂĽdwest e. V. and the IVAM Microtechnology Network. Other cooperation and network partners from all over Germany, such as the Research Fab Microelectronics Germany (FMD) and Silicon Saxony, support the flagship project in order to promote the securing of skilled workers in microelectronics and microsystems technology.
“Demographic change and the expansion of production capacities are leading to a sharp increase in the demand for skilled workers, but also for training and further education and flexible adaptation of skills,” says the project manager at the University of Magdeburg, Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Vierhaus. The joint project and the resulting training opportunities will strengthen the university’s role as a hotbed of skilled workers in Saxony-Anhalt and a microelectronics location in the long term, Vierhaus continued. “The nationwide networking of all key partners from the fields of education, research and industry will in future create the conditions for the university to bundle tailor-made offers for all target groups along the education chain, including supra-regionally.”
In future, the focus of the offers will be on addressing new target groups and qualifying those responsible for training and teaching staff. New digital solutions such as a joint virtual technology laboratory of all partners in the joint project with OVGU facilities and processes will enable innovative qualification measures to be carried out independent of time and place and will alleviate capacity bottlenecks.
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Photo: Hannah Theile/Uni Magdeburg
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