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To sign up for the Bevica Scholarship Programme, you must be enrolled at a research-based Danish university, university college, or design school. Moreover, you must have completed at least the 3rd semester of your education at the start of January 2025. Students from all disciplines can participate.
To sign up for the Bevica Scholarship Programme, you must be employed at a Danish research-based university, university college, or design school. Moreover, you must 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.
You can sign up between 15 August and 1 December 2024.
Project submissions will open in late March and close on 1 April 2025.
15 August 2024 | Sign-up phase begins |
| 15 August – 1 December 2024 | Information meetings at Danish universities, university colleges and design schools in Aalborg, Aarhus, Kolding, Odense, Roskilde, Lyngby and Copenhagen |
| 1 December 2024 | Final deadline for sign-up to the Bevica Scholarship Programme |
1 January 2025 | Ideation phase begins |
1 February 2025 (Saturday) | Full-day physical workshop with expert presentations, mentor sparring and interdisciplinary group work |
1 March 2025 (Saturday) | Full-day physical workshop with expert presentations, mentor sparring and interdisciplinary group work |
1 April 2025 | Deadline for submission of preliminary project proposal |
April 2025 | Jury assessment |
1 June 2025 | Creation phase begins |
1 June 2025 | Shortlist is announced |
16-17 May 2025 | Creation workshop with mentors and professional experts |
August 2025 | Deadline for submission of shortlisted participants’ final project proposals |
September 2025 | Jury assessment |
9 October 2025 | Bevica Scholarship and Bevica Fellowships are announced (symposium) |
1 October 2025 | Investigation phase begins |
Recipients of a Bevica Scholarship award execute their study stay and travel | |
Knowledge and experience are disseminated to Universal Design Hub during the journey |
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 here.
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.
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.
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