YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF CHIPS
Have you ever wondered how microchips are made—those tiny components, also known as semiconductors, without which smartphones, game consoles, and computers simply wouldn’t work? If you find this fascinating and might want to work on such high-tech products yourself someday, you’ve come to the right place. Here, you’ll learn about the apprenticeship programs available in the semiconductor industry, what you’ll learn in them, and what skills you’ll need.
Feel free to look around—maybe you’ll find your future dream job here!
Promotion of young talent
MINT to be – Entdecke mit uns deinen Platz in der Hightech-Welt
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.
Code Week Dresden 2026 Inspires Young People to Take Up Coding
Code Week is a Europe-wide initiative designed to get young people excited about IT and digital media. In Dresden, too, children and teens can participate in workshops from October 10 to 25, 2026, to build robots, try 3D printing, develop games, or experiment with AI. As a company, you can support local STEM education through your own programs and establish early connections with the next generation of tech talent.
Getting girls interested in engineering professions
The Pro Technikale Sachsen project will start in mid-January 2025 and is aimed at girls who live in Saxony and come from grammar schools and secondary schools in Saxony who enjoy STEM subjects (9th-11th grade).Interested girls can register atbuchung@vdi-garage.deParents, 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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YOUR CONTACT PERSONS
Katrin Meusinger
+49 351 8973-3972
katrin.meusinger@silicon-saxony.de
Susann Ehrhardt
+49 351 8973-2977
susann.ehrhardt@silicon-saxony.de
Ann-Christin Böttger
+49 351 8973-3864
ann-christin.boettger@silicon-saxony.de
