The Social Shift: XR + AI for Human Impact

The Social Shift: XR + AI for Human Impact is sponsored by Metaverse Europe Foundation. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

The Social Shift: XR + AI for Human Impact - Foundation Metaverse Europe Digital innovation for social institutions – with responsibility, technology and humanity. As a funding and development programme, we support projects that make good use of state-of-the-art AI and XR technologies – to optimize processes, reduce the workload of skilled workers and increase scope for action. – Always at the service of people.

AI that relieves – not replaces Through the targeted use of artificial intelligence, we support social institutions in optimizing work processes, relieving administrative tasks and strengthening professional quality. This creates more space for the essentials: interpersonal relationships and individual care. Rethinking training – XR meets AI We also integrate XR-based training solutions that build on our AI infrastructure.

This immersive training strengthens both new and experienced employees – practical, flexible and directly applicable in everyday working life. Technological progress needs clear values. That is why The Social Shift consistently on Data protection , digital identity security , Legal certainty and sustainable corporate sovereignty .

Our solutions protect both employees and clients – transparently, comprehensibly and fairly. open, strong implementation, joint thinking We design projects that make an impact – with a clear framework, practical methods and all relevant perspectives on board: management, IT, HR and specialist departments work together to develop viable solutions.

Our project support brings structure to complex projects, makes points of friction visible and promotes decisions at eye level.

🔹 Together we define clear project goals and value creation potential 🔹 We prioritize technological options with a realistic implementation horizon 🔹 We develop concrete use cases – well-founded and strategically compatible Whether it’s artificial intelligence to reduce process workload or XR to strengthen presence, learning and collaboration : we help to classify technologies in a meaningful way, recognize their added value – and make them effective in the right context.

The Social Shift harmonizes humanity and technology. For a social future that is smart, safe and sustainable. Would you like to take part?

Please contact us. Consulting with an impact – Insights that make a difference Our strategic consulting formats are based on a clear claim: impact is only fully realized when knowledge is shared and further developed. This is why we document and reflect on key findings from our consultations – and make selected insights accessible to others in the form of white papers, impulse formats or digital learning content .

This creates a growing pool of knowledge that has an impact beyond the individual organization – and contributes to strengthening a common good-oriented, technologically competent and responsible management culture . In the first step, an AI prototype was developed to support professionals in assessing risks to children’s well-being and vulnerability.

The application is based on anonymized case descriptions, relevant professional guidelines and relevant specialist literature. The prototype generates structured and comprehensible assessments and is designed to independently identify and request missing information in the future.

In addition, a VR prototype […] Strengthen decision quality through data intelligence and immersive training Professionals in social institutions are faced with sensitive decision-making situations on a daily basis: Child endangerment, imminent need for care, crises in residential groups. There is a wealth of data available – case documentation, health data, progress reports – but it has hardly been used systematically to date.

An example of […] Prepared by the Metaverse Europe Foundation with the kind support of the Gleiss Lutz data protection team. Artificial intelligence (AI) opens up a wide range of opportunities for social institutions to make workflows more efficient, tailor individual support services more precisely and optimize administrative processes.

One conceivable example is an early warning system for child endangerment: a social institution has […] Inspired by Yoshua Bengio. Further developed by partners of the Metaverse Europe Foundation and experts “I never thought AI would become so powerful so quickly – and I’m worried about what could happen if we’re not smart about it.

”These cautionary words come from Yoshua Bengio, one of the fathers of deep learning and winner of the Turing Award. In his […] What does it even mean today to be “German”, “European” – or “free”? In a world in which global interdependence, technological acceleration and economic power structures permeate all areas of life, this question is becoming increasingly difficult to answer.

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The speaker was Dr Eberhard Schnebel: philosopher, economist, theologian, professor of business ethics at Goethe University Frankfurt, board member of EBEN GR (European Business Ethics Network – Greek Chapter) and expert for data governance in Group […]