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.
Be Part of the Solution!
The Challenge: Gender inequality is Still a daily reality despite decades of progress, gender stereotypes still dictate who does the care work, who gets promoted, and who is heard.
Across Europe, women remain overburdened at home and underrepresented at the top — and these gaps start with deeply ingrained beliefs.
2 out of 3 caregivers in the EU are women.
Women earn 13% less than men for the same work
2 out of 5 senior female leaders were asked about their plans for having children and what was they “prioritized.”
Our Solution: Empathy + Immersion = Action
VR Balance uses powerful Virtual Reality simulations and engaging workshops to challenge gender norms and transform perspectives.
We target current and future leaders — from CEOs to students — to spark personal insight and professional 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 A persistent care gap that limits women’s time, opportunities, and well-being—while reinforcing outdated stereotypes about gender and work.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.
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You are expected to do chores after work, while your equally employed partner relaxes.
- You are a transgender woman who encounters discrimination with her customer-facing role.
- You are a non-binary who grapples with adversity.
🎧 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
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
JOIN US!
🚀 Ready to Experience It?
Participate in our next workshop, book a VR session, or get in touch with our team.