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Partnership website: https://www.virtualworldsassociation.eu/
The Virtual Worlds partnership aims to position the EU as a world leader in virtual worlds technologies. The partnership was signed by the Commission and the Virtual Worlds Association, led by Siemens and composed of 18 founding members. VRT, KU Leuven and IMEC are among these founding members.
Under the partnership, the European Commission plans to allocate up to €200 million within the current Multiannual Financial Framework to research and innovation activities and Virtual Worlds Association members will match this investment with at least €200 million between 2025 and 2030, ensuring strong public-private collaboration to scale virtual worlds across sectors.
- The press release of the launch of the Partnership.
- The Partnerships Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) here.
- The Virtual Worlds partnership is a key deliverable of the EU Strategy on Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds.
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
sarah.stroobants@fwo.be
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
