Building Interfaces for Social Inclusion

Learn how to enrich daily lives of children and youth with special needs.

The BISI semester is organized in multidisciplinary collaboration between pedagogy, technology and design. The three educational institutions involved are EAL (Academy of Professional Higher Education, Odense), AAU (Aalborg University, Esbjerg), and UCL, University College Lillebaelt, Social Education in Odense.

Achieve knowledge of how to work with Danish welfare-technology, design and communication together with educational stake-holders and institutions.

The student will contribute to think in strategies of how to develop and design technological solutions for users with disabilities. There is particular focus on social interaction and personal expression, i.e. developing, supporting and strengthening relationships, communication and individual expression.

Based on the individual user and in cooperation with the pedagogical practice and pedagogical companies, the potential for development will be identified, so the possibility for producing an end product as a prototype can help to help the user to feel heard, seen and understood.

International and Danish students will be included in groups to develop solutions to the users' specific problems.

You will know much more about how to enrich daily lives of children and youth with special needs. Be a modern social educator who has high skills in social education and also in cooperating towards a better life quality for children and youth with special needs. Follow this 30 ECTS 5 month course taught in English.

The semester is an offer in the spring; please look to the right for important dates ect. in the application form.

Tuition and Fees - only for students outside the EU

The total tuition and fees for the course will be approximately EUR 3,570. This amount covers all tuition and fees, but does not include books and other materials, which you will need to pay for during your stay. The tuition fee also does not cover the residence permit application fee, which you will need to pay to the Danish Immigration Services and to the Representation where you apply for the permit.  

Students outside the EU, who require a student residence permit must pay the full amount before applying for the student permit. Should your application for a student permit be denied you will receive a refund of EUR 3,370.

If you are a non-EU/EEA or Switzerland citizen, you can apply for a scholarship to cover tuition fee and living expenses. Click here for more information.  

The BISI semester has its own website, where you can learn much more.