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25 August 2026
Commission launches European Partnership for Virtual Worlds
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25 August 2026
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The Commission has formally launched a European Partnership for Virtual Worlds, choosing manufacturing as one of its headline examples of where the technology already pays off: engineers testing a new production line or a complex structure inside a virtual environment before a single physical part is built.
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Academic / Research and VET Institutions
Company with 250 or more employees
EU Institutions
SMEs (a company with less than 250 employees)
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Advanced Manufacturing Organisation Types
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Industrial Software & Technology Providers
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XR, VR, Augmented reality, Mixed reality, Metaverse
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Unlike a standalone research call, the Partnership is designed to knit together work the EU has already funded separately across XR, digital twins, AI, blockchain and common data spaces, on the view that these pieces need to work together rather than progress as isolated projects. Two new Digital Europe Programme test beds, one specifically for industrial uses, are the first concrete outputs stakeholders can expect to engage with directly, rather than only reading about the Partnership's aims on paper.
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