Training more technicians for the microchip sector. Starting today, vocational education institutions, colleges and universities across the country will start working on this. The government will invest €80.9 million in this over the next 2 years. Ministers Dirk Beljaarts (Economic Affairs) and Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) wrote this to the House of Representatives this week. This investment is a start; the government also has money available for the years after that. The aim is to train 33,000 additional technicians for the microchip sector in the regions of Brainport Eindhoven, Delft, Noord-Nederland and Twente by 2030.
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