Meta To Open ‘ Metaverse Academy ‘ in France

Facebook's parent company Meta and a French digital training firm will launch a “metaverse academy” in France for the new academic year.

Meta, which used to be called Facebook, and the French company Simplon, which offers digital training, are bringing Web3 to higher education. In France, they are opening “metaverse academies” where students can learn about specialties in the metaverse.

The focus of the academies will be on the metaverse, but training will be done in person. The two companies will set up academies in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, and Nice. The current aim is to teach 20 students in each city per year, or 100 students in the first year of the program.

Laurent Solly, Meta’s Vice President of Southern Europe, said that administrators would pay extra attention to diversity. One of the program’s goals is to have 30% of the first class be women. The co-founder of Simplon, Frederic Bardeau, said that he wouldn’t look at resumes but would support “positive discrimination.” October 2021, Meta said it intended to create 10,000 jobs in Europe in five years' time to build the metaverse, the US technology giant's new strategic priority.

Both Meta and Simpson think that the economy of work will be very different in 2030. Even so, the two companies have said that 80% of the jobs in 2030 have not even been thought of yet. The academies will try to use Web3 in education and training so that people can start getting ready for the job market in 2030.