The Danish association of Youth With Disabilities (SUMH)

The partnership between the Danish association of Youth With Disabilities (SUMH) and the Bevica Foundation aims to promote universal design and a more nuanced view of human, as well as train young people to become advocates for strengthening the inclusion of people with disability and expand the concept of normality through universal design.

Through the partnership, which was established in 2020, the voices of young people from their lives with disabilities have become more prominent. In parallel, the organisation has developed, allowing the organisation to lift the agenda into many more different arenas.

The young voice of SUMH is central to the work with the Foundation's other strategic partners, as they provide indispensable perspectives from the lived expeiences of disability into many of the initiatives that arise in the partnerships.

These perspectives would otherwise be invisible. The video below is produced by DTU Skylab from the partnership with Technical University of Denmark.

The voices of the young people and the important work of the Association was recognised in 2025 with a grant of an additional DKK 12 million from the Bevica Foundation.