VR Balance

An EU-funded project using immersive tech to promote gender equality and shared caregiving responsibilities.

🎮 Step into someone else's reality. Walk in their shoes. Lead the change.

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The Challenge

Gender inequality is still a daily reality. Despite progress, stereotypes dictate who cares, who leads, and who is heard.

0 of EU caregivers are women

0 gender pay gap for same work

0 female leaders asked about children plans

💡 Our Solution: Empathy + Immersion = Action

VR Balance uses VR simulations and workshops to challenge gender norms. We target leaders — from CEOs to students — to spark insight and change.

"You can't change what you don't feel. With VR, we make you feel it."

What do we Offer?

🎯 3 Dynamic Workshops

All based on research, co-creation, and real-world experiences.

Workshop 1: Who Cares? The Care Gap

Explore how caregiving roles are unequally distributed and how that reinforces inequality. The result? A persistent care gap that limits women's time, opportunities, and well-being — while reinforcing outdated stereotypes about gender and work.

Workshop 2: Smashing the Ceiling

Understand how career bias, unequal pay, and role expectations shape workplace outcomes. The result? A cycle of economic inequality that limits advancement, undervalues women's contributions, and reinforces systemic barriers to equity.

Workshop 3: Walk in Their Shoes

Step inside 6 real-life scenarios of gender bias using VR technology. The result? A powerful, immersive experience that builds empathy, challenges assumptions, and sparks meaningful change.

Duration: 5 hours total | Format: In-person

Feel With VR!

Experience What Bias Feels Like

Our custom-built VR simulations are designed in collaboration with MetaMedicsVR and based on lived experiences of working parents, students, and professionals.

6 Immersive Scenarios

Being asked at work, as a woman, if you want children.
Being denied a promotion because you are pregnant.
Expected to do chores after work while your equally employed partner relaxes.
A transgender woman facing discrimination in a customer-facing role.
A non-binary person grappling with adversity.
Other everyday biases that compound over time.

🎧 All simulations are accessible with VR headsets and include guided debriefs.

Join the Movement!

💥 Why This Training Works

📈 Evidence-based – Based on EU research and lived realities.
🎮 Empathy-driven – Immersion leads to understanding.
🏢 Leadership-focused – Built for professionals and future leaders.
📣 Action-oriented – Real tools for change in policy and practice.

"I left this workshop with a changed mindset — and a plan." – Anonymous

Team workshop using VR and collaboration

Who is this for?

👥 Everyone!

Business Leaders & HR Professionals

Lead inclusive change in your organization.

Students and young professionals learning

Students & Young Professionals

Develop the leadership skills of tomorrow.

Educators, Policymakers & NGOs

Bring empathy and evidence into your training and advocacy.

📌 No prior experience needed — just openness to learn.

About Us

🤝 🤝🏿 VR Balance

VR Balance is a European project co-funded by the European Union, aimed at addressing gender inequality in both professional and personal life using immersive technologies and research-based training.

Coordinated by: University of Barcelona

In partnership with:
MetaMedicsVR – Virtual Reality & AI specialists
Social Innovation Fund – Training Experts
Women Entrepreneurship Foundation – Training Experts