The Czech Semiconductor Center is the result of cooperation across the academic, industrial, and public spheres. It offers companies a wide range of services, from mentoring and financial consulting to access to pilot production lines and participation in a pan-European design platform. The aim is to help companies develop new semiconductor products more quickly and efficiently and to ensure a sufficient supply of qualified experts to support the growth of the semiconductor industry in Europe. The CSC also actively attracts new talent to the field of microelectronics and related fields of the semiconductor ecosystem (computer science, chemistry, and physics).
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The Czech Semiconductor Centre reports a successful start, with FEE CTU playing a key role
5. 9. 2025
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The Czech Semiconductor Centre (CSC) has completed its first few months of live operation and is already helping to kick-start the domestic chip business. Since its launch in the spring of 2025, it has built a team, set project management rules, created a catalog of services, and established connections with important foreign partners. From the outset, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEE CTU) has been significantly involved in the center's activities and is one of its main academic partners within the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČTU).
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FEE CTU brings not only infrastructure to the CSC, but also the expertise of leading experts and enthusiasm for educating a new generation of specialists in the field of chip design and manufacturing. The nanoelectronic technologies laboratory, a unique facility at the Department of Microelectronics FEE CTU equipped with state-of-the-art technologies for the design, characterization, and testing of nanoelectronic structures, plays a particularly important role. Students of all levels gain practical experience with technologies used in the semiconductor industry and participate in projects alongside doctoral students and researchers.
"Research and teaching in the field of microelectronics at FEE ČVUT help develop key competencies that will be essential for the future development of the Czech and European semiconductor industry. Our graduates find employment in small innovative companies as well as multinational technology giants," adds Prof. Jiří Jakovenko, Vice-Dean of FEE CTU and Head of CSC Activities in the Field of Education.
FEE CTU also contributes to the international dimension of CSC. Together with Taiwan's TSRI, the university has opened the CTU TSRI Joint Research Center, which focuses on the development of new chips and joint projects with leading Taiwanese universities. Four of the five funded projects are being implemented at FEE CTU, three at the Department of Microelectronics and one at the Department of Measurement. This collaboration is complemented by specialized summer schools and workshops, such as the April ACDRC Smart EDA & Analog Circuit Design Workshop, where experts from FEE CTU and National Central University in Taiwan gave lectures, of a two-week-long summer school dedicated to integrated optoelectronics.
"These short-term course formats, such as summer schools or weekend workshops, are highly rated by students for their flexibility in terms of topicality. In the future, these educational formats will form the basis of newly awarded micro-certificates for the further training of existing experts in areas key to the semiconductor industry," said Vladimír Janíček, head of the Centre for Lifelong Education at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Start-ups, students, and companies: The Czech Semiconductor Center is meeting its goals
"By mid-2025, we had already exceeded a number of our annual goals—we involved 11 start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises, supported seven students with business ideas, and organized a workshop for Škoda Auto and a summer school for foreign students. We are fulfilling a large part of the KPIs for this year, and as a whole team, we believe that we are well on our way to achieving further goals," says Karel Masařík, director of the Czech Semiconductor Center, listing some of the results.
The Czech Semiconductor Center has already been presented to the public at Czech Semicon Days in Prague, the popular VědaFest science festival, and was also part of a prestigious round table at Prague Castle, where leaders from industry and academia discussed the acceleration of Czech science. The director of the center also met with representatives from Eindhoven, Bavaria, and the Netherlands, and together with other CSC representatives, he welcomed a large delegation from Taiwan.
The CSC is backed by a unique consortium of six partners: the two largest technical universities, CTU and VUT, the companies onsemi and Codasip, the Czech National Semiconductor Cluster, and the innovation agency JIC. The combination of cutting-edge industrial know-how and scientific background thus enables the provision of tailor-made services to clients.
