Creating Virtual Reality Stories for Cultural Heritage Through Student Contest

Cultural heritage benefits nowadays through the outburst of digital storytelling methods and technologies. One of the interesting approaches is through student contests, in which the participants generate fresh perspectives on the tangible and intangible heritage. At the same time, these contests help improve future skills in students. This chapter reports on such an international student contest organized in the frame of the Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture programme. We describe the design and implementation of the contest, as well as the process used by the winning students to develop the digital storytelling artefacts, as a useful case study for organizing such a happening.