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.
The Challenge
Gender inequality is still a daily reality. Despite progress, stereotypes dictate who cares, who leads, and who is heard.
💡 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 A persistent care gap that limits women's time, opportunities, and well-being — while reinforcing outdated stereotypes about gender and work.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
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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.
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💥 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
Who is this for?
👥 Everyone!
Business Leaders & HR Professionals
Lead inclusive change in your organization.
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
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🚀 Ready to Experience It?
Participate in our next workshop, book a VR session, or get in touch with our team.