FAQs
In our Scholarship Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), you will find answers to everything you need to know.
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 and inclusion.
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 Scholarship Award Recipients 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 university, university college, architecture- or design school.
- must have completed at least the 3rd semester of their education at the start of Ideation (February 2027).
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 architecture- and design school.
- be able to document active teaching activities within the past two years at the beginning of Ideation (February 2027).
Lecturers from all disciplines can participate.
Students
Student Bachelor Main Prize: 200.000 DKK
Student Masters Main Prize: 200.000 DKK
Selected participants receive a Bevica Scholarship travel grant of DKK 30.000 each.
The Bevica Scholarships are to be used for visiting an international knowledge environment. The international knowledge environment may by either an academic, a civic/NGO or private sector environment, depending on the scope of the project.
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 each.
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: 1 September - 1 December 2026
- Ideation workshops: Workshop 1: 6 February 2027.* Workshop 2: 6 March 2027.*
- Deadline for first submission of project proposal: 30 March 2027.
- Shortlist announcement: 1 May 2027.
- Creation workshop: 4-5 June 2027.*
- Deadline for submission of final project proposal: 16 August 2027.
- Award show with pitches from selected finalists: 7 October 2027.*
- Information meeting for all Scholarship recipients: 28 October 2027.
* Physical attendance is required.
At the end of Ideation, you submit your first project proposal.
The first project proposal consists of 5-6 pages in which you describe in more detail the problem and problem statement that 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. On the page "For Participants" you can read about the requirements for your first submission under the section Important documents.
If you proceed to the shortlist, you further develop you project in the Creation phase. You then submit your final project, also consisting of 5-6 pages, on 16 August 2027.
The Creation phase also consists of workshops, peer sparring and tools and inspiration provided by the Scholarship Programme.
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 question above through their own discipline. The process of developing the problem statement will be supported by workshops, online self-study and sparring with experts, and peers.
Participating students are to:
- Define a problem statement to investigate within their own discipline by means of universal design.
- Ideate how and where they will carry out their investigation. Meaning identify a relevant international knowledge environment to visit and carry out their investigations.
- Present the expected new universal design knowledge their investigation will result in and the expected impact in the Danish context of their findings.
Proposed projects are to:
- Develop knowledge on universal design within key aspects of our daily lives: products, environments, programmes, and services.
- Consequently, to the above primary goal, promote an understanding of human beings that includes everyone across different and changing abilities and showcase universal design as a lever for the pledge to Leave No One Behind.
By addressing these objectives, participating students develop and pitch their individual 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 equitable and 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 architecture- and 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 their own discipline. The process of developing the problem statement will be supported by workshops, online self-study and sparring with experts, and peers.
Participating lecturers are to:
- Define 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. Meaning identify a relevant international academic knowledge environment to visit and carry out their investigations.
- Present the expected impact of their investigation on their teaching activities and curriculum development in universal design.
Proposed projects should stimulate and strengthen teaching that:
- Develop knowledge on universal design within key aspects of our daily lives: products, environments, programmes, and services.
- Consequently, to the above primary goal, promote an understanding of human beings that includes everyone across different and changing abilities and increases knowledge about universal design as a lever to Leave No One Behind.
By addressing these objectives, participating lecturers develop and pitch their individual 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 equitable and inclusive 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. Your public transportation travel expenses can be reimbursed.
Shortlisted participants enter Creation phase from May-October 2027. This involves a two-day workshop event and sparring with experts and peers on their individual project proposals before final submission of projects on 16 August 2027.
The workshop will take place at Musholm Bugt Feriecenter in Korsør.
Drinks, meals, snacks and accommodation are provided. Your public transportation travel expenses can be reimbursed.
Students
For students, the prize money can be used for tuition, travel, accommodation and living expenses during your international investigation travels and in accordance with your specific project proposal and the Bevica Scholarship terms.
You can carry out your investigation at an international university, university college, architecture- or design school, a civic/NGO, or a private sector company. You cannot carry out your investigation in Denmark.
Lecturers
For lecturers, the prize money can be used for tuition, travel, accommodation and living expenses during your international investigation travels and 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. You cannot carry out your investigation in Denmark.
- Students: The chance to win a Bevica Scholarship Main Prize of DKK 200.000 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. Students and lecturers from all disciplines are welcome.
You do not have to know about the core theme Universal Design, or the related themes of Leave No One Behind or Being Human before you enter the programme. You do, however, have to acquire and demonstrate knowledge about the topics during the Ideation Phase and describe how you want to explore them in the first project proposal you hand in on 30 March 2027 and in the submission of your final project proposal in August 2027.
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.
See the full universal design accommodations here.
If you find that any accommodations are missing, please let us know at scholarship@bevica.dk.
- The opportunity to make the world more equitable and inclusive for everyone by investigating universal design, as well as the related themes of Being Human and the Leave No One Behind pledge through your own discipline, hence contributing to a more equal world.
- 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.
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The investigation phase, where you travel internationally, begins on 1 January 2028.
Student Award recipients will carry out their investigations/travels during the period from January 2028 to December 2028.
Lecturer Award recipients will conduct their investigations over a longer period, from January 2028 to December 2029.
Yes, the Bevica Foundation will reimburse public transportation travel expenses related to participation in the programme workshops and required meetings. You will need to save your ticket for documentation in order to get your expenses reimbursed.
We want to support participants in fully engaging with the programme and creating the best possible conditions for collaboration and participation.
The Bevica Foundation does not support or encourage travel to war zones, active conflict areas, or other countries or regions to which the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Udenrigsministeriet) advises against travel, whether such advice is based on armed conflict, severe security risks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, or other extraordinary circumstances.
You can find further information and details about these provisions in the document here.
Everything else you need to know can be found in:
- The Programme
- The Official Call
- The Terms and Conditions
- The Jury Evaluation Criteria for Students and Lecturers
Or you can join us at an information meeting.