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 these objectives 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.