• The objective is to test, trial and support the integration of immersive and augmented reality technologies with state-of-the-art virtual worlds in specific sectors.

Virtual worlds offer unprecedented opportunities in many social areas, such as healthcare, education and training, new forms of interaction and collaboration between people, immersive cultural experiences, and personalised administrative services. The industrial applications of virtual worlds will enable smart, resilient and connected operations through new digital processes and digital models that are more efficient, cheaper and more sustainable than existing industrial processes.

The expected results that will contribute to Virtual Worlds innovation are as follows:

• Contributing to Europe's digital sovereignty and open strategic autonomy in the field of Virtual Worlds.
• Contributing to the development of interoperable Virtual Worlds solutions.
• Contributing to the creation of EU regulatory sandboxes for Virtual Worlds.

• The objective of this call is to accelerate the adoption of GenAI in public administrations by supporting three to four pilot projects. Each pilot project will include one or more use cases where European GenAI solutions are developed and implemented in public administrations in the relevant countries.

The project will be responsible for increasing the scalability and replicability of successful European GenAI pilot solutions through activities that promote knowledge sharing, community building and capacity development.

• • Pilot implementations of European GenAI solutions in public administrations,
• • Replication of GenAI solutions piloted across public administrations and member states,
• • GenAI4EU community of public administrations in Europe.

• The European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies, an umbrella initiative at European level, will lead this effort by bringing together existing sectoral initiatives (e.g. the Cybersecurity Skills Academy and the EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy). It will also promote synergy with initiatives related to newly established sectoral digital skills academies and other EU-funded projects focused on advanced digital skills (particularly high-level (specialised) training programmes funded by DIGITAL), thereby taking ownership of this effort.

• The European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies will be structured around four key elements:
  • Pooling resources and expertise,
  • Capacity building activities,
  • Communication and awareness-raising activities,
  • Market analysis and impact assessment.

• Quality/excellence accreditation seal developed and piloted by the European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies for training modules offered by current or future sectoral academies and initiatives;
• Capacity-building activities such as cross-sectoral mentoring programmes;
• Establishing cooperation with the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform and adding resources/materials in the field of advanced digital skills developed by sectoral academies/initiatives and other EU-funded projects (especially special training programmes funded by the DAP) to the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform catalogue/archive;

• The European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions aim to serve as a catalyst for involving young Europeans in the latest digital technologies. The competitions will support young people's creativity, introduce them to project-based research and education, and connect them to a wider community of research organisations and industry players.

• The purpose of this call is to develop six challenges for the European Digital Skills Competitions in four digital areas corresponding to the Sectoral Digital Skills Academies (Quantum, GenAI, Chips, Virtual Worlds), the Destination Earth Initiative and an additional area to be developed by the consortium.

• Well-defined, up-to-date and relevant challenges for the European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions,
• Competition rules book for participants and jury,
• Roadmap for the implementation of the competitions,
• Implementation and launch of six competitions,
• Sustainability plans for proposed competitions after the end of the project.