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The firms indicated that in this first pilot year, there will be about 20 students per center.
This project will have a second phase of the program.
Meta assured that this program not only intends to educate the new generations for the jobs of the future.
With the goal of creating the first academies focused on the metaverse, Meta announced a partnership with French digital transformation company, Simplon.co, to create Metaverse Academy.
According to data from Statista, the Meta company expanded its workforce continuously throughout the period until it exceeded the figure of 71,970 workers in 2021. This represents an increase in the number of employees of more than 20 percent compared to 2020 . Of these, 59 were Facebook workers in Spain, as of 2019.
Meta creates the “Metaverse Academy”
The Meta technology platform pointed out that with the objective of training young people for new professions related to this type of technology, created in France, the “Academy of the metaverse”.
The alliance between Meta and Simplon.co will open the Metaverse Academy in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Nice with free courses dedicated to the metaverse and immersive technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality.
The firms indicated that in this first pilot year, there will be about 20 students per center, who will start with a course in intensive individual training from 3 to 6 months.
This project will have a second phase of the program, where the nearly 100 students will spend the next 12 to 18 months studying and working in companies that collaborate with the school.
Likewise, the technological platform indicates that these courses are focused on two new professions, such as developer designer specialized in immersive and metaverse technologies, and support/assistance technician.
Laurent Solly, Vice President of Southern Europe for Meta, highlights that “The Metaverse Academy is a first step that will help anticipate the acceleration of uses and train future metaverse builders. We want to participate in the creation of a collective metaverse, creating sustainable jobs for the entire digital ecosystem.”
Meta assured that this program not only intends to educate the new generations for the jobs of the future, but also that people of diverse origins and social situations can apply and enter this program.
“The Metaverse Academy is free and due to the work that Simplon.co does with French society, it aspires to be much more inclusive than the technology sector has been up to now,” they add.
Let’s remember that Meta has been working hard in the Metaverse, where it has already opened its first physical store, which is made for people who want to try products like Ray-Ban Stories, Meta’s augmented reality glasses and sunglasses, as well as viewers. Oculus virtual reality.
The store opened last month, has a space of 1,550 square feet and is located on the campus of the social network in Burlingame, California, in the United States.
Meta is not the only social network that has been working in the metaverse, where Twitter announced a few months ago that it allows the use of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) in the profile images of its users who want to have them in their accounts.
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