The Seed Grant is made possible by the Bevica Foundation and Disabled People's Organizations Denmark with the objective of making inclusion and accessibility a natural part of engineering new sustainable technological solutions at DTU.
The special call is part of Skylab Funding with common deadline once every semester.
All DTU students, PhD's and postdocs + alumni (within 1 year from graduation) and teams with at least one DTU profile in the founder team can apply.
GEND receives the Bevica Seed Grant 2022
Evaluation criteria for applications
Accessibility and universal design
Is the object of the project and the business model to create a mindset, environment or product design to ensure that people with motoric disabilities have equal opportunities as people without a disability through either an assistive technology or a mainstream product with inclusive design?
Example: A solution that gives people with motoric disabilities equal opportunity regarding e.g. education, work, transportation, health, social activities or other aspects of life and society, as people without disability, or a solution that considers fill usability be people of different age groups with different physiological, psychological and/or economic ability.
Societal and public benefit
Does the project have a spoken, or unspoken, ambition to have a positive impact on the environment, society or similar? Does the project have the potential to create employment or empowerment of large groups of people?
Example: A solution that can replace existing solutions that are using non-renewable energy.
Market potential
Are you able to describe that there is a market for the product/service.
Does the team have a realistic and clear view of how to reach the market?
Example: Call three companies and ask them if they would be willing to buy your product or service. Can you get them to sign a letter of intent?
Value for money
Will the grant make a big difference for the project? Do they need funding at this point?
Innovation project
Is the technology/service or design new in any way? Does the startup have a realistic view of competitors and a strategy to fit into the market and do they have insight in the work of their competitors.
Team
Does the team have the needed competences to fulfill their plans? Do they have a strategy to find missing competences and can they describe it clearly?
Funding application guidelines
The application should be no more than 3 pages and include at least the following content:
A brief description of the project: What is new about it, what potential does it have and how will you do it? It is also a good idea to include a short description of how the idea has emerged where you stand today.
A short description of market research and results already carried out/obtained by the project.
An introduction of the team behind. We encourage you to work in multidisciplinary teams since they are usually stronger.
A project budget (for the applied amount) and a description of how you will use the support, and where will the funding get you.
