The Virtual Worlds
Partnership
VWA role
The VWA acts as a structured interface between the Virtual Worlds community and European public institutions. It supports the co-programmed Virtual Worlds Partnership under Horizon Europe, to represent the partners other than the Union.
A Public - Private Partnership
Community platform
We're growing a strong, representative European membership that can connect digitally through our upcoming hub and in-person on events. We'll also start in the summer the VWA Local network to bridge national and european representativity, starting by electing
SRIA
Bringing together a coalition of industrial, research centers, and companies, this strategic and guiding document sets out the main priorities, challenges, and expected impacts in terms of research and innovation for the virtual worlds industry. It explores areas of application, technological dimensions, socio-economic impacts, and governance and infrastructure issues.
Joint projects
The Association enables regional multi-partner cooperation to collaborate at European level, supporting co-creation, development and experimentation of pan-European Virtual Worlds applications and services. By facilitating consortia, we'll launch concrete projects, pilots and sector-focused initiatives.
Working groups
Create working groups and invite members to participate
Events
We support Virtual Worlds related events or industry vertical ones in three ways: Event Organization, Event Contribution and Event Participation. All focused on improving and promoting immersive technologies, extended reality, digital twins, virtual collaborative spaces, interoperability, and digital skills.
Workshops
Online or in-person focus group session on Virtual Worlds technologies, applications per industry verticals and about the socio-economic aspect of VW. These initiatives are meant to gather stakeholder inputcan be find in our event contributions or a standalone initiatives such as teh “Virtual Worlds Café” series.
Public

Representing the European public sector by:
- Funding research (300M€)
- Propose an EU strategy for VW
- Support EU industrial ecosystem
- Empower EU talent growth
- Encourage adoption of global standards in line with EU vision &values
- Encourage public use of VW
Private
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Representing the European Virtual Worlds industry by:
- Steering R&D Agenda (SRIA)
- Facilitate Public/Private dialogue
- Connect the Ecosystem
- Bring visibility to EU Players
The Virtual Worlds Partnership actions
Federate
Federate the European community working on Virtual Worlds technologies and applications
Strategize
Contribute to strategy, including the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA)
Collaborate
Enable collaboration through projects, pilots and multi-partner initiatives.Collaborative Research Networks
Drive adoption
Accelerate adoption,
bridging research results
to real-world markets and users
Sovereignty
Strategy
Added value for tenders
Adoption of sovereign solutions
Regulation
Interoperability Standards
Open Ecosystem
Funding
Shape Horizon Europe Calls
Promote consortiums
(Large, SMEs & Academia)
Policy
VWA as policy-influence channel
Best Practice Exchange Citizen-centric Innovation
The VWP is the latest item in the EC strategy on virtual worlds




Political Priority
of the European Commission
The European Commission is launching a series of initiatives targeting citizens, universities, and businesses on virtual worlds.

EU Strategy
The European Commission has voted and adopted an ambitious and robust strategy on virtual worlds to ensure an open, secure, trustworthy, fair and inclusive digital environment

A Public-Private Cooperation for Research and Industry
The VWA acts as the European Commission’s partner to turn its innovation and industry vision into reality. We bring together the full value chain and drive synergies around the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.
EU Objectives
Global Influence
Encouraging adoption of global standards for open and interoperable VW in line with the EU's vision and values.
Business
Supporting a European industrial ecosystem to scale up excellence and address fragmentation.
Public use of VW
Encourage societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities
Talents growth
Empowering people to foster awareness, access to trustworthy information and build a talent pool specialists.
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