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由于虚拟世界是实时操作的，它们的广泛采用有望创造出用于互动的数字公共空间，在这种空间中，已经可能的在线互动将得到前所未有的加强，并与物理世界融合在一起。为了在这一领域发挥领导作用并最大限度地发挥积极影响，欧洲需要确保根据欧洲的价值观应对新出现的多层面挑战。AGORA回应了缺乏超越Metaverse技术理解的博士课程，并考虑其商业和社会价值，同时解决潜在的意外后果。通过严格而强大的研究和培训计划，AGORA旨在发展一个能够以身作则的关键研究和人才基础。AGORA的方法是培训研究人员不仅要了解Metaverse的基础设施，还要了解Metaverse的商业和社会价值的不同层次，并在这些层次之间摇摆不定，从而对这个破坏性的生态系统有更全面的理解。将理论研究和实际工业研究与可转移技能培训相结合，将使研究人员能够瞄准高质量的出版渠道，并变得具有创造性和自主性，以便他们能够利用研究成果并将其商业化，并在全球竞技场中具有竞争力。AGORA的独特卖点之一是它能够使ESRs在三个途径（学术界，工业界，政策制定）中的任何一个以及它们的交叉点上工作。AGORA的跨部门网络汇集了高质量的领先学术和非学术共同监督安排，促进了该地区顶级商学院和行业之间新的工业博士培训程序的发展。

As metaverses operate in real-time their wide adoption is expected to create digital public spaces for interaction in which the already possible online interactions are intensified and blended with the physical world as never before. To lead in this field and maximize positive implications, Europe needs to ensure that new multi-dimensional challenges arising, are addressed in accordance with European values. AGORA responds to the lack of doctoral programs which go beyond the technical understanding of Metaverses and consider its business and social value while unpacking and addressing potential unintended consequences. Through a rigorous and robust research and training programme, AGORA aims to develop a critical research and talent base capable of leading by example. AGORA's approach is to train the researchers not only to understand Metaverse's infrastructure but also to understand and oscillate between the different levels of Metaverse's business and societal value, paving in this way a more integrated understanding of this disruptive ecosystem. Combining theoretical and hands-on industrial research and transferable skills training will enable researchers to target high-quality publication outlets and to become creative and autonomous so that they can exploit and commercialize research results and become competitive in the global arena. One of AGORA's unique selling points is its ability to prepare the ESRs to work in any of the three pathways (academia, industry, policy making) as well as their intersections. AGORA's inter-sectoral network brings together leading academic and non-academic co-supervision arrangements of high quality, stimulates the development of new industrial doctoral training procedures between top business schools and industries in the region.