OPENVERSE OPEN and co-created metaVERSe for Europe

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Europe calls for the emergence of a Metaverse that characterises itself for being open, transparent, inclusive, ethically and environmentally responsible, but also capable of restoring the technological sovereignty of EU industry in the global scenario of competition. Such a European Metaverse would foster the following benefits: a) Higher accessibility, greater freedom and control, lower barriers to entry and more equitable distribution of resources; b) Interoperability, privacy and security as well as data ownership: an open human-centric Metaverse would allow different virtual worlds to interoperate with each other; c) More innovation, creativity, and social benefits: an open human-centric Metaverse would foster a collaborative environment where developers and users could work together to create new experiences and features. In that regards, the overarching aim of OPENVERSE is to contribute to laying the foundations of such a European Metaverse by establishing a knowledge base on it, setting up and animating a community of stakeholders, testing a methodology that combines user co-creation and XR in real world cases of industrial and societal relevance, exploring relevant ethical, legal, IPR and governance challenges, and producing industry standards as well as a technology and policy roadmap and recommendations to guide the future establishment of the Open Metaverse concept in Europe and worldwide.

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Web resources:	https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135701
Start date:	01-11-2023
End date:	31-10-2026
Total budget - Public funding:	2 000 000,00 Euro - 2 000 000,00 Euro

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Europe calls for the emergence of virtual worlds that characterises themselves for being open, transparent, inclusive, ethically and environmentally responsible, but also capable of restoring the technological sovereignty of EU industry in the global scenario of competition. Such European virtual worlds would foster the following benefits: a) Higher accessibility, greater freedom and control, lower barriers to entry and more equitable distribution of resources; b) Interoperability, privacy and security as well as data ownership: open human-centric virtual worlds would be able to interoperate with each other; c) More innovation, creativity, and social benefits: open human-centric virtual worlds would foster a collaborative environment where developers and users could work together to create new experiences and features. In that regards, the overarching aim of OPENVERSE is to contribute to laying the foundations of such European virtual worlds by establishing a knowledge base on it, setting up and animating a community of stakeholders, testing a methodology that combines user co-creation and XR in real world cases of industrial and societal relevance, exploring relevant ethical, legal, IPR and governance challenges, and producing industry standards as well as a technology and policy roadmap and recommendations to guide the future establishment of the Open virtual worlds concept in Europe and worldwide.