European Commission launches funding instrument to upscale Digital Twins towards the Citiverse

Together with 5 Member States – Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Spain – , the European Commission has launched of the ‘Local Digital Twin & Citiverse EDIC’. The European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) is an mechanism of the Commission Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 with the goal to  create an instrument for shared investments in knowledge & funding at the European level.

Living-in.EU, the movement for the European way of Digital Transformation of cities and communities will help the EDIC in the deployment of Local Digital Twins and virtual worlds through ‘the Citiverse’ programmes at local level.

Cities, communities, regions and Member States will have access to standardised and interoperable instruments to establish Local Digital Twins on local or regional level via Living.in-EU.The Citiverse, Europe’s version of the metaverse, will be developed next.

You can consult the original press release here.