About Earth Rooted
Our Mission
Earth Rooted brings people face to face with the lived experience of war.
We build immersive, evidence-based educational experiences led by VR that replace second hand assumptions with firsthand understanding. We work to reach new audiences who will likely never set foot in a conflict zone but will vote, work, teach and make decisions that touch one.
Our Vision
An educated public.
People who understand the realities of war and humanitarian crisis well enough to engage with them honestly.
What We Stand For
Truth Without Agenda
Every VR episode and every classroom module is built on verified testimony and cross-checked reporting. We show what happened and allow audiences to draw their own conclusions.
Safety in Learning
Conflict content can retraumatize as easily as it can educate. Every session is designed with trauma-sensitive pacing and a trained facilitator present.
Community Co-Creation
Refugees, teachers, humanitarian workers and local partners shape our educational content from the first draft to the final product.
Our Goals
We measure ourselves against what changes in a classroom or a newsroom. That means specific, checkable targets:
Learners reached across Europe by 2030
Through VR, school and workplace programmes.
Conflict and crisis regions covered
Expanding our curriculum library with locally verified content for each.
Teachers trained by 2027
In trauma-sensitive conflict education.
European cities with a permanent lab
A standing Conflict Reality Lab in each major city.
An open-access research archive
Testimony and curriculum published for educators worldwide.
Who We Are
Earth Rooted is based in Brussels, Belgium, operating across the EU with programmes delivered virtually to schools and workplaces worldwide.
We are a small team of educators, VR developers, humanitarian sector veterans and facilitators working alongside international partners and, most importantly, the people whose stories we are trusted to tell. Brussels gives us proximity to the EU institutions shaping migration and humanitarian policy, but our work reaches far beyond it.
