XR4Human Project Kick-Off Programme

USN welcomed the XR4Human partners who flew to the Kongsberg campus
Members of the XR4Human project consortium from 12 Universities and business clusters

USN successfully hosted the 2-day kick-off meeting co-coordinated by the Rigmor Baraas and Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe.

Author: Joyce Anthonia Ojokojo

From November 15th to 16th, the Equitable, Inclusive, and Human-Centered XR Project (XR4Human) successfully held its first meeting at USN, Kongsberg campus. The partners were hosted by Rigmor Barass , the project lead in collaboration with Rosemarie de la Cruz Bernabe, the co-coordinator. During the two-day programme, each partner presented the rationale, tasks, deliverables and plan for the first year.

About the XR4Human Project

The three-year project starts from 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2025 and is funded by the EU's research and innovation program Horizon Europe. The main objective of the XR4Human project is to create living guidance on ethical and related policy and interoperability issues of XR technologies within a European community of practice.

For further details about the project visit the  XR4Human project page .

USN is the coordinating institution with other consortium members from universities and business clusters around the world. 

  1. University of South-Eastern Norway
  2. XR4Europe, Belgium 
  3. University of Oslo, Norway
  4. National Technical University of Athens - NTUA Greece
  5. Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU, Norway
  6. Universiteit Leiden-LEI, The Netherlands 
  7. Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT), Germany
  8. Department of Energy Engineering-IFE, Norway
  9. Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung, Germany
  10. Open AR Cloud Europe Gemeinnützige ug (haftungsbeschränkt), Germany
  11. University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  12. Fontys University of Applied Science, Netherlands