Metaverse

The UNIC Open Metaverse Initiative

In 2021, the University’s Department of Digital Innovation and its affiliated Institute For the Future launched the UNIC Open Metaverse Initiative, a new comprehensive initiative focused on the academic, research and policy issues relating to the metaverse, with a particular emphasis on open public systems and standards.This initiative builds on UNIC’s track record as the leading university in blockchain and crypto-assets.

Focus Areas

As we move towards extended reality worlds fueled by decentralised technologies, the initiative aims to build new academic/training programmes, pioneer research toward open and interoperable architectures, foster innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as support NFTs on campus.

Academic / Training Programmes

• MOOC NFTs and the Metaverse
• MSc Metaverse

Innovation & Entrepreneurialism

• Public launch of the first cohort of UNIC incubated NFT/metaverse startups.
• Annual cohorts of NFT/metaverse startups.

Research & Policy

• Center for an Open Metaverse (COM)
• The Open Metaverse Alliance (OMA)

NFTs on Campus

• The first permanent university gallery for NFTs
  (The Block Gallery)
• NFTs as donations for student scholarship and research support

MSc in Metaverse

The MSc in Metaverse is an interdisciplinary programme focused on preparing creators, developers, architects, social scientists, financial professionals, policy makers, and others for careers in metaverse design, programming and management. The master’s programme is designed to help students explore the relationship between Metaverse technologies and its applications (e.g. technical, business) to attain a new insight on how to design, develop, and gain value from the implementation of new Metaverse products and services.