FES Future of Work & FES Just Climate are organising a conference on chips, industrial autonomy and clean tech, taking place on 9 April 2025. Registration is now open.
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For Europe, the establishment of a robustsemiconductor ecosystem is a vital economic priority, specifically when it comes to driving innovation in clean tech. In an era of increasing geopolitical upheaval and a growing weaponisation of trade policy, however, the European semiconductor industry faces multiple challenges that go above and beyond the scope of the original 2023 Chips Act. Semiconductors are not only an essential building block in all electronic products - they are key to industrial competitiveness and the driving element in ongoing global industrial competition.
To ensure clean tech and digitalisation remain a driving force for job creation and prosperity, Europe needs to act faster and more strategically, at home and at the global level. The EU and its Member States have to make tough decisions on the type of semiconductors, the architecture for a common European supply chain, the innovation enablers needed and the financial resources it is prepared to invest. At the same time, from an outside perspective, it needs to ensure access to various components in the value chain, starting with raw materials, while navigating potential conflicts between the Trump administration and China.
FES Future of Work and FES Just Climate are organising this conference in Brussels on 9 April to jointly seek answers to these questions. The event will bring together experts from EU institutions, trade unions, think tanks and civil society as well as representatives from the business sector to explore the question: How can the EU avoid falling behind and instead drive and lead innovation in clean tech, achieve industrial autonomy and create jobs in this growth sector, while balancing relations with key players like the US and China ?
We look forward to your participation.
If you have any questions please contact Oliver Philipp and about the logistics, please contact Ha-Thu Mai.
Stephan Thome is a writer from Germany based in Taiwan. He has a doctorate in philosophy, his articles on East Asian history and politics have appeared in publications such as DER SPIEGEL, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DIE ZEIT and others. His most recent book Narrow Waters, Dangerous Currents: On the Conflict in the Taiwan Strait was published in the fall of 2024 (in German).«
Isabelle Barthès is Deputy General Secretary of industriAll Europe Trade Union, the European Trade Union Federation representing industrial workers in metal, chemicals, textile and energy sectors. She has extensive experience of the trade union movement at European level. She is coordinating Collective Bargaining and Social Policy, Company Policy including European Works Council, digitalisation and youth. She is also in charge of industrial sectors such as aerospace, ICT, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding and defence.
Janine Dobelmann is Head of Government Affairs EU of NXP Semiconductors. In her role, she is responsible for managing NXP’s EU advocacy strategy. Before joining NXP, Janine has gained deep expertise in the field of EU policy making and government affairs at the German Electro and Digital Industry Association (ZVEI) and French Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF) in Brussels. Janine is a board member of the European Semiconductor Industry Association ESIA.
Tiemo Wölken has been a Member of the European Parliament since November 2016. As a member and spokesperson for the Social Democratic Group in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, as well as the Committee on Legal Affairs, Tiemo Wölken is particularly committed to sustainable climate policy and European legal standards. He focuses in particular on digital policy. Tiemo Wölken lives in Osnabrück.
Shada Islam is an award winning and well-known Brussels-based analyst and commentator on European Union affairs who now works independently as an advisor/analyst/strategist/op-ed writer on Europe Africa Asia Geopolitics Trade and Race, Diversity and Inclusion. Her columns are published in the EU Observer, the Guardian and Hyphen Online.
She now runs her own Brussels-based global media, strategy and advisory company, New Horizons Project. Shada is Senior Advisor at the European Policy Centre and also at Bursons, a renowned international communication firm and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Natolin).
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