Building the Collaborative Foundation for Europe’s Virtual Worlds
The future of Europe’s Virtual Worlds will be shaped by collaboration — across technologies, disciplines, and borders. This ecosystem brings together initiatives, organisations, and communities that share the ambition of building an open, interoperable, and human-centric digital landscape.
It serves as a convergence point for European and global actors to align strategies, exchange knowledge, and co-create the frameworks that will underpin the next generation of immersive technologies. By connecting domains such as extended reality, artificial intelligence, data spaces, blockchain, connectivity, cloud, and digital twins, the ecosystem strengthens Europe’s capacity to innovate together.
At its heart lies a shared purpose: to ensure that the foundations of Virtual Worlds are trustworthy, inclusive, and sustainable, enabling a truly interconnected and collaborative European digital future.
The four pillars
Collaboration
The ecosystem serves as a hub for cooperation among European and international actors shaping Virtual Worlds — connecting research centres, industries, SMEs, and public authorities. It fosters dialogue and shared initiatives across technological domains, ensuring that Europe’s efforts evolve through collective intelligence rather than isolated innovation.
Synergy Building
By linking communities from areas such as extended reality, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud, data spaces, and digital twins, the ecosystem bridges technological silos. This cross-pollination strengthens the value chain, allowing expertise and outcomes from one field to reinforce others, and creating a truly interconnected innovation environment.
Roadmap Alignment
The ecosystem acts as a reference point for aligning European and national strategies, ensuring that initiatives move in the same direction towards a coherent technological and societal vision. It promotes knowledge exchange, shared roadmapping sessions, and common foresight exercises that help Europe define priorities for Virtual Worlds development and adoption.
Standardisation Support
Through collaboration with European standardisation bodies, the ecosystem contributes to shaping open and interoperable frameworks for Virtual Worlds. It supports the emergence of shared specifications, data models, and ethical principles that guarantee transparency, inclusiveness, and technological compatibility across platforms and sectors.