S10 - Session P3 - Metavers, what opportunities for the bioeconomy? Examples of modeling to act for Sustainable Development Goals

Authors: Anne Rollet *, Pierre-Yves Perez

"Metavers" is a social and political project. Mediated by online multi-player games, this field of digital activity is parallel to the real world from which it takes up: the design of "3d space", the interactions with people and objects, and the confrontation with socio-technical rules and system of constraints. By relying on the Reciprocal Knowledge Exchange Networks and focusing on parity and reciprocity between actors, a start-up and a researcher created a Metavers Immersion Tool. This cube combined three dimensions: Sustainable Development Goals, Level of action and Actors. This allowed each participant to show his expertise and limit and request for help. As part of exploratory research, this tool makes it possible to represent a portfolio of projects of a professionals group from a horticultural territory working on ornamental plants, fruits and vegetables. Because of the specificities of horticulture - great diversity of productions and actors limiting agricultural laws enforcement, habit of collective organizations for R&D and commercialization, production and commercialization system doubly weather sensitive, difficulties to valorize differentiation to customer… - horticultural actors have already built collaborative work platform. Beyond web 2.0 or 3.0, the Metavers Immersion Tool allows horticultural actors to visualize their projects in relation to the SDGs and to benchmark in order to share best practices and adapt them to their pedoclimatic features and mental model. The research project wishes to take advantage of the avatarial dynamic to promote the mechanisms of attention and cognition and learning augmentation. Modeling makes it possible to formulate technical questions n e.g., "How to apply the possibilities offered by the best social bidder?" - but also scientific questions n e.g., "How can upstream actors like producers make stakeholders recognize their expertise in SDGs?" The avatarial approach should help build learning communities that seems one of the conditions for the achievement of the SDGs.