High-tech professions in Saxony
What exactly do the various companies in Saxony’s high-tech sectors actually do? What jobs do they offer and what skills do they require? If you are curious, you can find out more at the Silicon Saxony joint stand at the annual KarriereStart trade fair in Dresden.
Promotion of young talent
MINT to be – Discover your place in the high-tech world with us
The “MINT to be” project introduced girls and non-binary young people to the diversity of MINT professions and degree courses. Female STEM mentors from different cultural backgrounds acted as role models for pupils in years 7 to 13 throughout Saxony.
An idea developed into a successful workshop program that has inspired over 300 young people. Even after the end of the funding phase, the project can be continued on a reduced scale.
Promotion of young talent
The semiconductor tour of the Fabmobile
The Fabmobil introduces pupils at secondary schools and grammar schools in Saxony to microelectronics in a fun way and aims to get them interested in careers in the semiconductor industry. It focuses primarily on schools in rural areas. This is a unique cooperation between the leading semiconductor companies Bosch, GlobalFoundries, Infineon and X-FAB together with Fabmobil e. V. as the project sponsor.
Working Groups
Get active and benefit from the exchange
In various Silicon Saxony working groups, we address topics relating to career orientation. Anyone involved in one of these working groups benefits not only from the exchange of ideas at eye level, but also from the transfer of knowledge in a familiar setting.
What our members say
Saxony’s high-tech sectors are still too male-dominated in many places. However, innovative approaches to solutions succeed above all with different perspectives and ways of thinking. Attracting more young women to STEM degree programs and professions is an investment in the future of our industry and the entire economy and society.
Tandem training for high school graduates
The aim of the project is to encourage more young women to study science and technology subjects. In the tandem model, female high school graduates go through a program after leaving school in which they do a work placement in a regional STEM company and complete a taster course at the college/university at the same time.
Getting girls interested in engineering professions
The “Pro Technikale Sachsen” project will start in mid-January 2025. The target group is girls residing in Saxony who attend Saxon high schools and secondary schools and enjoy STEM subjects (grades 9–11). Interested girls can register at buchung@vdi-garage.de. Parents, teachers, and companies can also contact us by phone (+49 341 8708-620). The project sponsor is VDI-GaraGe gGmbH in Leipzig.
Focus: IC Design
The EU METIS project analyzed which job profiles are particularly in demand. The result was that chip designers are among the most sought-after specialists in the semiconductor industry worldwide. Of course, this also applies to Saxony’s microelectronics companies.
A video about IC design
Chip designer Emma from the year 2050 meets Max, who works as a chip designer, by chance. Together they work on a humanoid robot. A video as exciting as a NETFLIX series.
Lecture series on IC design
The IC Design working group and the Silicon Saxony university group are jointly organizing an English-language lecture with a final certificate. It is to be offered again in 2026.
Study IC design
Degree courses, in particular electrical engineering and information systems technology, but also Master’s degree courses, e.g. “IC Design and Test” at Chemnitz University of Technology and “Nanoelectronic Systems” at Dresden University of Technology.
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