We are pleased to announce the release of the first paper in our series, MetaverseUA Chair Research Papers titled ‘A European Regulatory Framework for the Metaverse’, authored by Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballet, one of the members of the Chair’s Scientific Committee, and Aurelio López-Tarruella Martínez, the Chair’s Director.

We’re thrilled to share the recording of the inaugural webinar in our «Thursdays in the Metaverse» series! Our first event featured Anselm Küsters, a leading expert in EU policy and digital governance, who presented a thought-provoking talk titled “Standards and Competition in the Metaverse: Assessing the EU’s Approach to Virtual Worlds”.

Last Monday 15 April 2024, the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse organised the Webinar “Final Fantasy: A Roadmap for Virtual Property in the Metaverse”.

RECORDING AVAILABLE | On Thursday, 8th February 2024, the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse, in cooperation with the European Union Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office, hosted the Webinar “Protection of Privacy in Virtual Worlds”.

El próximo 8 de febrero 2024, de 17.00 a 20.00, la Cátedra para el desarrollo responsable del metaverso celebra su primera aniversario con la conferencia “Metaverse for Dummies (una aproximación jurídica para novatos)”, que tendrá lugar en la Sala de conferencias de la Sede Universitaria de Alicante, ubicada en el edificio de C/ San Fernando 40.

La Academia Mexicana de Derecho internacional privado y comparado en colaboración con la Cátedra para el desarrollo responsable del Metaverso (Universidad de Alicante) y el Proyecto PAPIME PE309424, han organizado la mesa 3 de las “Charlas en el Metaverso”, que tendrá lugar, el próximo jueves 15 de febrero 2024, a las 16.00 CEST (11:00 en México), en la plataforma de mundos virtuales ENGAGE.

RECORDING AVAILABLE | On the 4th December, the Spanish & Portuguese Chapter of Licensing Executive Society International (LESI) and the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse organized the Webinar “Interoperability in the Metaverse”.

RECORDING AVAILABLE | Last Tuesday 14 November 2023 the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse, in cooperation with the G-IPTech Centre at the School of Law of Queen’s University Belfast, hosted the Webinar “Exploring Content Moderation Challenges in the Metaverse”.

RECORDING AVAILABLE. Tuesday 31st October 2023 the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse celebrated the Webinar on “Personal Data Processing within Immersive Virtual Worlds: Compliance Challenges of the GDPR”. In this amazing session,

GRABACIÓN DISPONIBLE | El pasado lunes 10 de julio la Cátedra Metaverso UA y la Cátedra de Derecho Notarial de la Universidad de Alicante celebraron la conferencia virtual “Propiedad, transmisión y herencia de activos digitales en el metaverso”

RECORDING AVAILABLE | Last Monday, 3 july 2023 the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse and the Cátedra Fundación Integra sobre Identidad y Derechos Digitales held the Webinar “Decentralised Digital Identity in the Metaverse under eIDAS 2”

RECORDING AVAILABLE | Last Monday, 26 June 2023 the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse held the webinar “Avatars and The Protection of Digital Identities in the Metaverse”. This has been the first event dedicated to this topic and will be completed with the webinar that will take place next Monday, 3th July 2023 called “Decentralised Digital Identity in the Metaverse under eIDAS 2”.

RECORDING AVAILABLE | Last Monday, 5 June 2023, at 16:30 (CET), the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse held its first webinar entitled «The European Digital Acts and the Metaverse: Fit for Purpose?».

RECORDING AVAILABLE | The first webinar of the MetaverseUA Chair on «Ethical challenges for the responsible development of the Metaverse (I)» took place last 17th of May.

RECORDING AVAILABLE | On the past day May 11th took place at the University of Alicante, with a significant attendance both in person and via streaming, the conference «New Challenges of Data Protection in AI and the Metaverse»

La Cátedra MetaversoUA tuvo el honor de participar en el III Congreso Internacional “La tutela de los derechos en el entorno digital: hacia una transición centrada en la persona”, el cual tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Valencia los días 4 y 5 de mayo de 2023

RECORDING AVAILABLE | Similar to the event held at the University of Alicante, in order to present the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse, another activity took place at the headquarters of the Permanent Delegation of the European Commission in Madrid on the 15th of March 2023

RECORDING AVAILABLE | The Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse kicked off its activities with an event organized in collaboration with the Institute of International Economics and held at the University of Alicante on the 13th of March 2023.