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Building on Denmark's commitments in the UN Convention on Disability, we work to strengthen and disseminate knowledge about universal design as a lever to create a more equal and inclusive society for all.
We work with three load-bearing inserts
We work strategically with three pillars: knowledge of universal design, partnerships with key actors and active drivers of the conversation about society's blind spots, human vision and the framework for life lived. In this way, we actively contribute to the recommendations of the UN Committee on Disability in the UN Convention on Disabilities, ratified by Denmark in 2009, which point to universal design as an important effort in creating equality and equal opportunities for people with disabilities.
We promote knowledge
With the ratification of the United Nations Convention on Disability in 2009, Denmark has among other things committed to promoting research and development of universal design. At the Bevica Foundation, we take this commitment seriously with a desire to promote equal opportunities and equal lives for all.
The Bevica Foundation works strategically to create attractive educational and research environments in the field of universal design with the objective of providing future graduates with universal design as a basic premise in their professional understanding and future work.
The work on universal design knowledge is rooted in the foundation's Universal Design Hub, which operates, among other things, an interdisciplinary research network and the Bevica Scholarship Programme.
The work on universal design knowledge has its origins in Denmark's ratification of the UN Convention on the Disability in 2009 and its commitments in relation to the UN Global Goals and the Transversal Principle Leave No One Behind as of 2015.
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We change through partnerships
The Bevica Foundation is not an applicant-driven foundation. Instead, we work in partnerships with key players in architecture, design, technology, education and society.
The partnerships are central to the work of the Bevica Foundation. It is through the partnerships that we gain new knowledge and test universal design in practice. At Bevica Fonden, we want to create a society where equality and equal opportunities are the key words, and where universal design is central. Without our partnerships, this is not possible.
Bevica Foundation Partnerships
In our partnerships, we become smarter about universal design and solutions from practice.
Tools from the Partnerships
Bevica Foundation's partnerships throw off a number of initiatives
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We insist on
The Conversation
The path to a society that is designed so that more people can participate, and where universal design is a basic premise, requires a sustained conversation about who we really have our eyes on - and who we don't see. The Bevica Foundation is an active co-creator of this conversation.
In the Bevica Foundation, we insist on the conversation about society's blind spots and human vision. We drive the conversation in concrete series of conversations with key partners, and we initiate projects that form the basis for the conversations we want to start. Our conversations always draw on our vast network of knowledge professionals and our knowledge library.
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Bevica Scholarship Programme
The Bevica Scholarship Programme is a key part of the Bevica Foundation's work to bring new knowledge about universal design into a Danish context.
In 2023, the Bevica Foundation awarded grants for the first time in the Bevica Scholarship Programme. The interdisciplinary programme is an important part of the Bevica Foundation's strategic effort to bring knowledge about universal design into a Danish context.
The program runs in several phases, where participants acquire knowledge about universal design, diversity and norm criticism through workshops and presentations from prominent presenters. The main prize is at 350,000 kr., which goes to the winning student, and 130,000 kr., which goes to each of the two winning trainers.
In addition, up to 20 will be awarded. travel grants of DKK 30,000 pcs.
The Bevica Scholarship Programme is conducted in English.