SiliconBurmuin is aimed at creating a multidisciplinary

neurocomputing community in the Basque Country,

bringing together technology centres, scientific research institutes

and industry companies. This community will: (1) identify key

biological structures and mechanisms that play a major role

in vision across species, and (2) transform this knowledge into

novel mathematical formalisms, neuromorphic silicon features

and computer vision algorithms to solve industry challenges

and enable new experiments of interest in neuroscience and

clinical research. To achieve this objective in a time-effective

manner, SiliconBurmuin will draw strong connections with the

ongoing Horizon Europe NimbleAI project, with which it shares

coordination, to allow reinforcement of ideas, knowledge and

technology via a prototyping platform where to implement related

IP from both projects. In addition to describing the research

objectives and direction of SiliconBurmuin, this paper posits

that co-coordination and co-funding of aligned projects at EU

and regional levels might well be a catalyst for raising regional

self-awareness of own potential to help fulfill global challenges,

such as digital and semiconductor sovereignty.