The Bulgarian Industrial Association and the cluster Aerospace Technologies, Research and Applications organized a discussion on "Bulgaria's place in modern microelectronics". The event was held on January 26, 2024 within the ECoVEM project and was hybrid, with over 25 participants - well-known representatives of business and academia, and successful Bulgarians from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, USA and Japan - took part in it on site and online.
The focus of the discussion was the cooperation between academia, education and business. Some participants presented their work and what opportunities it opens for the development of microelectronics in Bulgaria.
Veselin Iliev from BIA presented the ECoVEM project, encouraging the participants to review and use the training courses developed within the project – over 1600 hours in different areas of microelectronics and its applications. Veselin Iliev invited the participants to participate in the next event of the project "Business meets scientific developments" – a three-day event to establish business contacts between scientists with practical developments and entrepreneurs. It will take place on March 28 and 29, and April 3. The areas of development are: microelectronics, ICT, aero- and space technologies, medical equipment, sustainable energy, autonomous vehicles, clean technologies, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, other areas of application of microelectronics.
The participants agreed to make this type of discussion periodical every two months. Before the next meeting, BIA and CASTRA Cluster will coordinate the main directions in which stakeholders should focus their efforts, incl. recommendations to the state and the European institutions.
