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The OpenVerse project aims at integrating knowledge, experts and actors around the creation of inclusive, open and ethically responsible European Virtual Worlds. This is done in alignment with the European Commission’s strategy on Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds.
As part its work, OpenVerse is conducting a landscaping exercise of initiatives that promote the uptake of Virtual Worlds technologies in each EU Member State. If you are involved in or aware of any Virtual World / Metaverse / Extended Reality initiative in Flanders, please contact Mattia Trino of the Big Data Value Association.
As a follow up, OpenVerse is planning a workshop on 22 January 2025, with the aim of reuniting all the initiatives and discuss together collaboration opportunities and the next steps that can be taken by this growing community!
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The European Partnership on One Health Antimicrobial Resistance (OH AMR) is about to launch the joint transnational call 2027 (JTC2027) “Understand, Model and Stop AMR Transmission”. The call opens on 18 November 2026. The call will follow a two-step evaluation process.Novel and improved measures are urgently required...
Read moreThe European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation has published ERA in Practice: A Guide for the R&I Community, developed with the support of INSPIRING ERA. The publication connects the four European Research Area policy priorities for joint action of the Pact for Research and Innovation (2021), with practical tools...
Read moreNet4Society, the NCP network for Cluster 2, has published an updated edition of the document "Opportunities for Researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon Europe". This document is designed to help potential applicants to find SSH-related call topics across the different parts of Horizon Europe in Work Programmes...
Read moreOn 5 November 2026, the European Commission published a correction for Horizon Europe topic HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-05. Under the section ‘Topic description - Scope’, the sentence on collaboration with projects funded under other topics in the work programme has been updated. The original text referred to...
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Avia-GIS is a Belgian innovative SME established in 2001. They have built research and public authority trust over the past 19 years and developed a unique, disruptive software suite - VECMAP® - that supports society to overcome one of its important health threats, the spreading of Pests of Public Health importance.
With the help of a Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase 2 project, they will be able to add Integrated Pest Management functionalities and go to the market. With the grant, that was an essential component of their second investment round, Avia-GIS aims at raising its revenue from the current 2 M€ to 14.2 M€ in 2024, and increase the headcount from 15 to 58.
