Partners from across Europe
Meet the consortium
VOPUS is building an evidence base on how participation in virtual worlds affects wellbeing, social connection, and cultural diversity, drawing on research across pilots and cohorts in multiple countries. The research will evolve over the three years of the project resulting in published papers, reports and open resources.
What participants across countries and cohorts tell us about their experience.
In-depth conversations with audiences, artists, and organisations to gain different perspectives.
Watching how people actually behave and connect inside Operaland.
Anonymised patterns of participation from the way people use the platform itself.
We are developing a Responsible Innovation toolkit - a practical toolkit covering equity, inclusion, data ethics, and fair practice for cultural organisations working in virtual worlds. It will be published openly for anyone to use.
Papers, reports, and open resources developed as part of VOPUS will be listed here as project outputs become available.
One opera house begins bringing elements of a production into OperaLand.
A second house joins, combining content and audiences within OperaLand.
Several opera houses converge within OperaLand at once.
VOPUS - Virtual World Opera for Participation, Unity, and Social Cohesion.
A Horizon Europe research project.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.