Empowering female humanities students to document the testimonies of women affected by conflict and displacement — through virtual reality and 360° digital storytelling.
A four-country consortium builds, pilots and openly publishes a gender-sensitive curriculum that closes the digital confidence gap in the humanities, while giving underrepresented women's voices a permanent place in the European cultural record.
Female humanities students — the majority of humanities enrolments across Europe — are structurally excluded from digital skills training built around STEM entry points. The result is a gender digital divide that awareness campaigns alone cannot close, and a growing archive of untold stories: the testimonies of women affected by conflict and displacement remain underdocumented, often because no scalable, ethical methodology exists to record them.
HerStory in VR embeds VR and 360° production inside an authentic humanities task: recording the oral testimony of a woman with lived experience of conflict or displacement. Students gain production competence and confidence together; witnesses gain a permanent, publicly accessible platform in the Matrix of Voices — the project's standalone VR application.
A four-module, gender-sensitive curriculum integrating oral history methodology and VR production — developed, peer-reviewed and pre-tested before pilot delivery.
A standalone VR application hosting 20 curated 360° testimonies, hosted by CYENS for a minimum of three years beyond the funding period.
A pre/post digital self-efficacy dataset across Cyprus, Norway, Greece and Serbia — the first cross-country evidence base on gender-sensitive VR pedagogy in the humanities.
Twelve facilitators trained at a centralised Train-the-Trainers event in Athens, equipped to deliver the curriculum independently at four pilot sites.
An Evaluation Report and multilingual Policy Brief translating findings into recommendations for scaling gender-sensitive digital skills interventions.
Every intellectual output published open-access in English, Greek, Serbian and Norwegian on the Erasmus+ Results Platform.