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The ECSA European Chips Skills Academy and Junior IOT

We’d like to showcase our exploration with ECSA, the European Chip Skills Academy, which we started early 2025. For more information: https://chipsacademy.eu/

European Chips Skills Academy

What is ECSA:

ECSA is an EU-funded project dedicated to providing skills anticipation backed by hard data, which will then inform initiatives around upskilling, reskilling, and matching. But that’s not all – ECSA is also set to bring together a wide range of key players in the microelectronics ecosystem for the first time. ECSA aspires to become the go-to hub for everything skills-related in the world of chips, shaping the future of education in the electronics and microelectronics space and opening new opportunities for collaboration between educational institutions at all level (secondary school, VET providers, and higher education) and industrial leaders.

Follow ECSA here:

The ECSA Junior IOT Soldering Workshops

Junior IOT and ECSA worked together to make the international version of the Junior IOT soldering workshop available at: https://learn.chipsacademy.eu/courses/2981 (please first create a login)

The ECSA Junior IOT Soldering Workshop is positioned as a fun and inspirational approach to inspire young people to join today’s field of technology.

This is the exact same workshop that was part of the first day in the first Junior IOT Challenge in 2016. Having been taught over the years in 1.000’s of classes in the Netherlands, the soldering workshop has found it’s current shape and form: inspiring, playfull and safe. Materials, equipment, colors, language and approach is designed to include all learners, the whole class will join.

The goal of this workshop is to stimulate the learner in their own discovering and investigation. In every step of the workflow, we promote learners to help each other. Workshops are designed to each add one inspiring new step, and learners can progress at their own initiative. Theory and themes are omitted from our approach to these workshop, as we believe these are part of the school’s skillset – and each school can select their own approach to their own follow-up

Materials are chosen to be the simple basic components of the industry: leds, batteries, buttons and switches. These are the insides of the technology components of the modern world around us. Once learners feel able to help creating the modern world, our work is complete.

“At this moment, getting youth into our industry is a key requirement”

Martin Westmoreland, R2i Semiconduction Applications

Building & Programming

This workshop will be translated soon for the ECSA platform. Please find the Junior IOT version here:  https://junioriot.nl/arduino-nano-block-programming/

Chips in LEDs

The ‘Chips in LEDs’ is the first workshop in the ‘Chips in Schools’ series by Junior IOT Onderwijs. https://junioriot.nl/eu-chips-in-leds/

At Semicon Europa 2025 in München, we introduce this workshop to the Semicon public: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcovanschagen_semiconeuropa-semicon-technology-ugcPost-7395738187597512704-zcLf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABxJ2YB9L71U9KeqquVHa8u1WlysnSVqwU

Are you visiting #SEMICONEuropa in München? Please send me a message to connect during the week!

Attracting young talent:
As per the newest advice, the semicon industry now wants to reach out to learners also in primary and secondary school levels. This is where our new workshop series will help: Our workshops are accessible and attractive to both primary and secondary education, to inspire more young people for #semicon #technology.

Walk & Talk:
On wednesday, November 19, we will have a table at the EU Innovation cluster, Hall c2, C2319. We have all our workshop materials ready for you to look at and to play with. Just walk by and chat about #technology and #opportunities 🙂

Live demo:
On friday 11:40-12:15, November 21, I’d like to invite you to visit our new ‘Junior IOT: #Chips #in #Schools‘ workshop demo session, in the #TECHarena, Hall #C1. Just like a real classroom, we will have materials for you actively join the workflow. You can bring your own laptop, and we will have some extra laptops available 🙂
Check the updated timing here: https://www.semiconeuropa.org/From-Classroom-to-Cleanroom%3ABuilding-the-Talent-Pipeline
Please join and experience how technology is made into a fun experience for all age groups 🙂

Give Semicon talent a boost:
We are looking for partners and funding to bring these workshops into more EU schools: Do you want to you help create the talent of the future?

#discover #technology #together

Detailed workflow description for ‘Chips in Leds’ will follow soon!

 

 

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