Students

How do we create a more inclusive society embracing everyone, regardless of ability? How can universal design contribute to the process? And what new knowledge is needed to do so?

The Bevica Scholarship Programme challenge participating students to ideate and define a relevant problem statement for investigation to answer these questions. Participants will define and elaborate on their problem statement and identify a relevant international knowledge environment in which the problem can be further investigated.

Following workshops, online self-studies and sparring with experts, and peers, participating students individually:

• Identify a key problem statement they wish to investigate within current societal values, policies, practices and/or designs.
• Ideate how and where they will carry out their investigation.
• Define the impact of their investigation and potential findings on generating a more inclusive society for all. 

Regardless of the disciplinary background and interest of the participating student, investigations should:

• Develop universal design through key aspects of our daily lives: products, environments, programmes, and services.
• Promote an understanding of human beings that includes everyone across different and changing abilities.
• Strengthen Universal design as a lever for the pledge of the Sustainable Development Goals to Leave No One Behind

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

Bevica Scholarships are granted to students that excel in their ambition to innovate and demonstrate: inclusive approaches to human beings and explore Universal design as a value-based design principle that supports the pledge to Leave No One Behind in a future sustainable society.

Lecturers

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 lecturers to answer these questions, through an investigative international exchange visit, to gather knowledge about how the principle of Universal design can inform and expand their teaching activities and curricula in a Danish context. 

As defined by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Universal design is ‘the design of products, environments, programmes, and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design’. Hence, teaching Universal design is a multifaceted and multidisciplinary task involving a wide range of disciplines addressing key aspects of our daily lives. 

During the Bevica Scholarship Programme, lecturers will ideate and define their own investigative exchange visit to an ideal international research-based university, university college, or design school, and argue how their visit will stimulate and strengthen their teaching activities and curricula development within Universal design, towards a more inclusive society for all. 

Following workshops, online self-study and sparring with experts, and peers, participating lecturers individually: 

• 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. 

• Define the potential impact of their investigation on their teaching activities and curriculum development in Universal design.

Regardless of the disciplinary background and interest of the participating lecturer, investigations should serve to strengthen teaching that: 

• Innovates the development of universal designs through key aspects of our daily lives; products, environments, programmes, and services. 
• Promotes an understanding of human beings that includes everyone across different and changing abilities. 

• Increases knowledge about Universal design as a lever for the pledge of the Sustainable Development Goals to Leave No One Behind. 

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

Bevica Fellowships are granted to lecturers that excel in their ambition to innovate teaching practices, policies, and subjects in a Danish context. Theese innovations must demonstrate inclusive approaches to human beings, explores Universal design as a value-based design principle, and, ultimately, support the pledge to Leave No One Behind in a future sustainable society.