The Bevica Scholarship Programme is an opportunity for passionate and talented students and lecturers from all disciplines to create a better world.

In the programme students and lecturers get to investigate the potentials of universal design as a tool within their own discipline, in a joint quest to equality.

During the first year of the programme, you learn more about universal design and meet likeminded people while participating in workshops and online modules that will help you form your project.

After the evaluation process the lucky winners will spend the second year travelling, finding new knowledge, creating new solutions and networking with the top people of their fields.

Read more about the process.

Students

To sign up for the Bevica Scholarship Programme, students must:

• be enrolled at a Danish research-based university, university college, or design school.
• must have completed at least the 3rd semester of their education at the start of Ideation (January 2025).
• Students from all disciplines can participate.

Lecturers

To sign up for the Bevica Scholarship Programme, lecturers must:

• be employed at a Danish research-based university, university college, or design school.
• be able to document active teaching activities within the past two years at the beginning of Ideation (January 2025).
• Lecturers from all disciplines can participate.  

Students

The main prize for students is the Bevica Scholarship of DKK 350.000.

Selected participants receive a Bevica Scholarship travel grant of DKK 30.000.

The Bevica Scholarship is to be used for enrolling in a semester at a foreign university or for taking an internship with a relevant international NGO or company. The travel grant is to be used for investigations in an international context according to submitted project proposals.

Lecturers

The main prize for lecturers is the Bevica Fellowship of DKK 130.000, there are two Bevica Fellowships each round.

Selected participants receive a Bevica Fellowship travel grant of DKK 30.000.

Bevica Fellowships are to be used to visit a foreign research-based university, university college, or design school, to stimulate and strengthen teaching and curricula development within universal design in a Danish context.

• Sign-up – 15 August and 1 December 2024
• Ideation workshops – 1 February and 1 March 2025
• Submission of preliminary project proposal – 1 April 2025
• Shortlist reveal – 1 May 2025
• Creation workshop – 16-17 May 2025
• Submission of final project proposal – 14 August 2025
• Symposium and award ceremony – 9 October 2025

At the end of Ideation, you submit your preliminary project proposal.  

The preliminary project proposal consists of 3-4 pages in which you describe in more detail the problem you identified during Ideation, how you want to investigate it, where you propose to investigate it and why.  

Workshops, online self-studies and peer discussions will provide tools and inspiration for this process.  

There are specific requirements for your submission. Read about the requirements for your preliminary project proposal.

How can universal design contribute to creating a more inclusive society in Denmark – embracing everyone, regardless of ability? And what new knowledge is needed to do so?

The Bevica Scholarship Programme challenges participating students to develop a problem statement relevant to investigate the questions above through your own discipline. The process of developing your problem statement will be supported by workshops, online self-study and sparring with experts and peers.

Participating students are to:

• Define and deepen a key problem statement they wish to investigate within their own discipline by means of universal design.
• Ideate how and where they will carry out their investigation. Including identifying a relevant international knowledge environment to visit and carry out their investigations.
• Identify the expected impact of their investigation and potential findings on generating a more inclusive and sustainable society for all in Denmark– regardless of ability.

Proposed projects are to:

• First and foremost, develop universal design within key aspects of our daily lives: products, environments, programmes, and services.
• Implicitly, promote an understanding of human beings that includes everyone across different and changing abilities.
• Consequently, showcase universal design as a lever for the pledge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Leave No One Behind

By addressing these prioritised objectives, participating students ideate, refine, and pitch their individual investigative projects for evaluation by an international and interdisciplinary jury.

Bevica Scholarships are ultimately granted to students that excel in their ambition to innovate and demonstrate how universal design can be applied within their own discipline to generate a more inclusive society for all in Denmark.

How can universal design contribute to a more inclusive society? How can teaching at Danish research-based universities, university colleges, or design schools support this quest? And what new knowledge is needed to take action?

The Bevica Scholarship Programme challenges participating lecturers to develop a problem statement relevant to investigate the questions above through your own discipline. The process of developing your problem statement will be supported by workshops, online self-study and sparring with experts and peers.

Participating lecturers are to:

• Define and deepen a key problem statement they wish to investigate within their own discipline by means of universal design.
• Identify one or more key aspects of universal design they wish to gain knowledge about to inform their own teaching practice, policies, and/or subjects.
• Ideate how and where they will carry out their investigation. Including identifying a relevant international knowledge environment to visit and carry out their investigations.
• Identify the expected impact of their investigation on their teaching activities and curriculum development in universal design.

Proposed projects should stimulate and strengthen teaching that:

• First and foremost, develop universal design within key aspects of our daily lives: products, environments, programmes, and services.
• Implicitly, promote an understanding of human beings that includes everyone across different and changing abilities.
• Consequently, increases knowledge about universal design as a lever for the pledge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Leave No One Behind

By addressing these prioritised objectives, participating lecturers ideate, refine, and pitch their individual investigative project for evaluation by an international and interdisciplinary jury.

Bevica Fellowships are ultimately granted to lecturers that excel in their ambition to innovate and demonstrate how universal design may stimulate and strengthen their teaching activities and curricula development to generate a more inclusive and sustainable society for all in Denmark.

Ideation consists of two, one-day workshops, and hands-on sparring with experts and peers. Workshops are all-day events and physical attendance is a requirement.

The workshops will take place at Musholm Bugt Feriecenter in Korsør.

Drinks, meals, and snacks are provided. However, transportation is at your own expense.

Shortlisted participants enter Creation phase from May – September 2025. This involves a two-day workshop event and sparring with experts and peers on their individual project proposals before final submission of projects on 14 August 2025.

The workshop will take place at Musholm Bugt Feriecenter in Korsør.

Drinks, meals, snacks and accommodation are provided. However, transportation is at your own expense.

Students

For students, the prize money can be used for tuition, travel, accommodation and living expenses during your investigation in accordance with your specific project proposal and the Bevica Scholarship terms.

You can carry out your investigation at an international university, university college, design school, NGO, or a private sector company.

Lecturers

For lecturers, the prize money can be used for tuition, travel, accommodation and living expenses during your investigation in accordance with your specific project proposal and the Bevica Scholarship terms.

You can carry out your investigation at an international university, university college, or design school.  

• Students: The chance to win a Bevica Scholarship of DKK 350.000 or a Bevica Scholarship travel grant of DKK 30.000.
• Lecturers: The chance to win a Bevica Fellowship of DKK 130.000 or a Bevica Fellowship travel grant of DKK 30.000.
• An opportunity to investigate new and extensive knowledge about universal design, the Leave No One Behind pledge, and inclusion in an interdisciplinary context.
• Access to an extensive network of peers and experts – including support to identify, make contact with and gain access to your potential host institution.
• Opportunity to become a Bevica Ideator, a Bevica Creator, and potentially a Bevica Scholar/Bevica Fellow.‍
• Membership of the Bevica Scholarship Alumni Network.
• Support and profiling through the Bevica Scholarship communication channels and networks.
• An opportunity to join a network of like-minded innovators on a journey to a more inclusive society for all.

If you do not make it to the shortlist the first time you apply, it is possible to enter the programme again, as long as you fulfill the basic requirements.

No. The Bevica Scholarship Programme is aimed at passionate and talented students and lecturers from a wide range of disciplines – from social service professions and humanities to political sciences, law, IT, design and beyond.

You do not have to know about Universal Design, Leave No One Behind or Being Human before you enter the programme. You do, however, have to acquire and demonstrate knowledge about the topics and describe how you want to explore them in the preliminary project proposal you hand in on 1 April 2025 and in the submission of your final project proposal in August 2025.

We strive to practice universal design in all aspects of the Scholarship Programme. We offer different formats and ways of participating in both the workshop and online modules. If you find that any accommodations are missing, please let us know at scholarship@bevica.dk

Everything else you need to know can be found in:

• The Programme
• The Official Call
• The Terms and Conditions
• The Jury Evaluation Criteria (coming soon)

Or you can join us at an information meeting.

Joining the Bevica Scholarship Programme is a chance to change the world.

You get:

• the opportunity to make the world better – by investigating universal design, the Leave No One Behind pledge and inclusion that can contribute to a more equal world.

• the access to an extensive network of peers and experts in a national and international context.

• support and profiling through the Bevica Scholarship communication channels and networks.

• an opportunity to join a group of like-minded innovators on a journey to a more inclusive society for all.