Dezember 9 2025
SC4EU at EFECS 2025
SC4EU at EFECS 2025 — Strengthening Europe’s Semiconductor Supply Chain With Data, Forecasting and Skills
SC4EU was present at EFECS Malta 2025 as one of the key reference projects in the strategic discussion around semiconductor resilience and industry coordination. With supply-chain stability now tightly connected to European technology sovereignty, the project gained strong visibility and interest from policy makers, industrial partners and research organisations.
During the forum, SC4EU was recognised for addressing one of the most critical challenges in the semiconductor ecosystem: the lack of transparent, real‑time demand visibility that leads to instability, bottlenecks and the bullwhip effect. The project showcased its approach to creating a secure, privacy‑preserving demand‑aggregation mechanism using MPC (Multi‑Party Computation), as well as its Digital Reference ontology for standardised semiconductor supply‑chain classification.
This positioned SC4EU at EFECS as a highly relevant initiative for the future of supply‑chain planning — directly aligned with the Chips Act goals and the ECS‑SRIA 2026 roadmap. The new SRIA emphasises resilience, data‑driven manufacturing, semantic interoperability and AI‑enabled process optimisation, which corresponds strongly to SC4EU’s architecture and methodology.
Roadmap relevance
The Chips JU 2026 Work Programme and ECS‑SRIA were presented as the main strategic guidance for Europe’s semiconductor research and industrial development. SC4EU fits directly within this long‑term roadmap, particularly in areas involving:
- secure cross‑industry data exchange
- ontology‑based interoperability
- AI‑assisted demand forecasting
- reduction of supply‑chain uncertainty
- scalable semiconductor manufacturing planning
SC4EU contributes to implementing Europe’s roadmap not only theoretically, but with a practical architecture that supports pilot‑line coordination, fab‑level decision making and multi‑stakeholder logistics alignment.
Skills demand for semiconductor supply‑chain excellence
In connection to the Chips Skills discussions at EFECS, SC4EU also highlights the need for specialised talent capable of operating and developing demand‑forecasting models, semantic data structures, and digital supply‑chain systems. The skills required include:
- data scientists with semiconductor domain knowledge
- ontology and semantic‑modelling engineers
- supply‑chain analytics specialists
- AI/ML applied in forecasting and risk prediction
- cross‑disciplinary experts linking fabs, vendors and integrators
The intersection of supply‑chain intelligence + semiconductor technology creates a new class of workforce needs. EFECS emphasised that future strategic programmes will require skill development in this direction — making SC4EU not only a technology project, but a capability‑building asset for European industry.
Outcome of participation
Through its participation at EFECS, SC4EU expanded visibility, strengthened links with industry and aligned directly with the forthcoming funding and roadmap strategy for 2026. Discussions held during the event confirmed the ecosystem’s need for coordinated demand data, shared terminology and predictive forecasting tools. SC4EU now stands as one of the leading initiatives to support Europe's next phase of semiconductor sovereignty — enabling factories, suppliers and integrators to make decisions based on real demand, reduced uncertainty and data‑backed planning.
