Both conferences were since their start annually organised in different weeks in September and in different European cities. Each conference included keynote, invited and contributed papers, selected by separate Technical Program Committees but coordinated by a joint Steering Committee.  Due to the general need for a stronger interaction amongst technologists, device experts and circuit designers, it was in 2002 decided to co-locate the two conferences and organize them at the same time and at the same location. This initiative and new format was first worked out by Prof. Giorgio Baccarani from Bologna University (ESSDERC Conference Chair) and Prof. Rinaldo Castello from Pavia University (ESSCIRC Conference Chair) for Florence as conference location. There were three joint keynote presentations. The delegates had to register for one of the two conferences, i.e., ESSDERC or ESSCIRC, to select one of the Proceedings for free but were allowed and encouraged to attend any of the parallel sessions. The conferences were technically sponsored by IEEE, i.e., by the Electron Devices Society (EDS) for ESSDERC and the Solid Sate Circuit Society (SSC) for ESSCIRC, respectively. The format, which is also used for the IEEE VLSI conferences, turned out to be very successful, and over the years more and more joint presentations and joint sessions were organized. Since 2017, both ESSDERC and ESSCIRC became IEEE financially sponsored conferences, supported by EDS and SSCS, respectively. The conference proceedings are published in IEEE Xplore. Selected papers are afterwards published in Journal of Electron Devices Society (J-EDS) or Journal of Solid-State Circuit (J-SSC), respectively. 

Since the last decade there is a worldwide trend towards education, academic research and industrial development while strengthening the link between device technology and circuit design. This is due to the world becoming more and more application driven, with a need to start from system level and to work down to circuit design and device technology.  Designers and technologists have to closely collaborate, and both disciplines and skills have to go hand in hand to achieve optimal results. To cope with this important trend, the ESSDERC-ESSCIRC Steering Committee (EStC) recently decided to reorganize the ESSDERC and ESSCIRC conferences into a single conference format under a new name. The last ESSDERC-ESSCIRC conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, September 11-14, 2023.  The new “European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference - ESSERC” is scheduled for Bruges, Belgium, September 9-12, 2024. The historical link with both ESSDERC and ESSCIRC remains and is also reflected in the new logo and the fact that the conference in Bruges will be referenced as the 50th ESSERC Conference.  ESSERC will have a single Technical Program Committee, a coordinating Steering Committee, a Conference Chair and Co-Chair and three Track Chairs, i.e., one for Circuits, one for Technologies and one for a Joint Track.