trAining younG researchers On shaping MetaveRse for business and social vAlue (AGORA)

培训年轻研究人员塑造 Metaverse 的商业和社会价值 (AGORA)

• 批准号: EP/Y032454/1
• 负责人: Efpraxia Zamani
• 金额: $ 66.43万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY032454%2F1
• 关键词: trAining; younG; researchers; shaping; MetaveRse

As metaverses operate in real-time their wide adoption is expected to create digital public spaces for interaction in which the already possible online interactions are intensified and blended with the physical world as never before. To lead in this field and maximize positive implications, Europe needs to ensure that new multi-dimensional challenges arising, are addressed in accordance with European values. AGORA responds to the lack of doctoral programs which go beyond the technical understanding of Metaverses and consider its business and social value while unpacking and addressing potential unintended consequences. Through a rigorous and robust research and training programme, AGORA aims to develop a critical research and talent base capable of leading by example. AGORA's approach is to train the researchers not only to understand Metaverse's infrastructure but also to understand and oscillate between the different levels of Metaverse's business and societal value, paving in this way a more integrated understanding of this disruptive ecosystem. Combining theoretical and hands-on industrial research and transferable skills training will enable researchers to target high-quality publication outlets and to become creative and autonomous so that they can exploit and commercialize research results and become competitive in the global arena. One of AGORA's unique selling points is its ability to prepare the ESRs to work in any of the three pathways (academia, industry, policy making) as well as their intersections. AGORA's inter-sectoral network brings together leading academic and non-academic co-supervision arrangements of high quality, stimulates the development of new industrial doctoral training procedures between top business schools and industries in the region.

随着虚拟宇宙的实时运行，它们的广泛采用预计将创建用于互动的数字公共空间，其中已经可能的在线互动将得到加强，并以前所未有的方式与物理世界融合。为了在这一领域发挥领导作用并最大限度地发挥积极影响，欧洲需要确保根据欧洲价值观解决出现的新的多层面挑战。 AGORA 回应了博士项目的缺乏，这些项目超出了对 Metaverses 的技术理解，并在分析和解决潜在的意外后果的同时考虑其商业和社会价值。通过严格而有力的研究和培训计划，AGORA 旨在培养能够以身作则的关键研究和人才基础。 AGORA 的方法是培训研究人员不仅要了解 Metaverse 的基础设施，还要了解 Metaverse 的业务和社会价值的不同层面并在其之间摇摆，从而为对这一颠覆性生态系统的更全面的理解铺平道路。将理论和实践工业研究以及可转移技能培训相结合，将使研究人员能够瞄准高质量的出版物，并变得富有创造力和自主性，从而能够利用研究成果并将其商业化，并在全球舞台上具有竞争力。 AGORA 的独特卖点之一是它能够让 ESR 在三个途径（学术界、工业界、政策制定）及其交叉点中发挥作用。 AGORA 的跨部门网络汇集了领先的高质量学术和非学术共同监督安排，刺激了该地区顶级商学院和行业之间新的工业博士培训程序的发展。