Horizon4Poland is an event dedicated to representatives of the world of business and science. In the current edition on November 13 and 14, 2024, it was also attended by representatives of several European partnerships, including: Virtual Worlds, Batt4UE, Clean Hydrogen Partnership, EIT InnoEnergy, Solar PV, AI Data and Robotics Association, Clean Aviation, SESAR Joint Undertaking, EP PerMed, BrainHealth.

The event discussed six thematic areas related to competitions in the Horizon Europe framework program.

The session: Are VR and XR the technologies of the future was prepared and conducted by the Industry Contact Point Digital Transformation with Łukasiewicz – Poznań Institute of Technology together with invited guests.

Virtual Worlds is a newly established – strong and multidisciplinary European partnership, established to develop and promote a thriving industrial and end-user ecosystem, covering all aspects of the Virtual Worlds value chain, while actively engaging people and society. Its aim is to support research and development in technologies such as: XR, sensors, electronics, photonics, 3D, digitization of cultural content, digital twins, testing solutions in real environments, supporting the application of modern technologies in key sectors of the economy and the public area, shaping open standards including metadata, ontologies, protocols, API.