The Khronos Group announced the establishment of Khronos AISBL, an international non-profit association headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Khronos AISBL operates under the governance of The Khronos Group Inc. Membership, IP framework, and specification processes remain unchanged.
The new entity enables European organizations to include Khronos as a formal project partner in major EU-funded research and innovation programs such as Horizon Europe. It creates collaboration opportunities for European companies, research institutions, and consortia working in virtual worlds, industrial digital twins, AI, robotics, advanced visualization, and immersive technologies.
The timing aligns with European emphasis on open standards, interoperability, and cross-industry collaboration in programs including the European Commission’s Virtual Worlds Partnership. With a formal presence in the EU, Khronos can serve as a direct project partner for organizations working in graphics, vision, spatial computing, and related domains using royalty-free standards.
Neil Trevett, President of The Khronos Group, said: “Khronos standards are already developed and adopted by organizations throughout Europe, but until now our ability to participate directly in EU-funded initiatives has been limited. With a European legal entity in place, Khronos can now serve as a formal project partner in European innovation programs, bringing open standards expertise into consortia, giving project results a direct path to inform the evolution of interoperability standards, and strengthening European influence in global technology ecosystems.”
Matthieu Worm, President of the Virtual Worlds Association, the private-sector partner in the EU’s Co-Programmed Partnership for Virtual Worlds, said: “The European technology ecosystem increasingly benefits from open standards to enable collaboration across industries, organizations, and national borders. Khronos establishing a European entity creates new opportunities for European consortia and research programs to engage directly with one of the world’s most influential open standards organizations, helping ensure that innovation developed in Europe can interoperate globally.”
European partners also benefit from Khronos’ international standards network. Khronos maintains formal collaborations with organizations including ISO, W3C, the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), the UHD World Association (UWA), and the VRM Consortium. Khronos is an approved ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS Submitter, providing a pathway for Khronos standards to contribute to international standardization efforts. XR4Europe’s article, “Open standards, OpenXR, and European pathways to global XR interoperability,” addresses the role of such standards in cross-border collaboration across Europe’s XR ecosystem.
