Stories of Impact

Scan Design Foundation began a long and rewarding partnership with the University of Washington in 2004. Together we have created and funded a variety of programs for students to learn about and travel to Denmark and for Danes to learn about and travel to the U.S. This year, recognizing $10 Million in grants over the years, the UW awarded Presidential Laureate status to the Foundation.

With the support of Scan Design Foundation, hundreds of elected officials, city planners and bicycle planners from the Pacific Northwest have been able to experience world class bicycle infrastructure for themselves on i-SUSTAIN study tours to Denmark. Joined with local business leaders and NGO executive directors, this has led to continually improving bicycle structure in the PNW region.

Since 2005, Scan Design Foundation has supported innovative pain research by UW Medicine. In this blog, three UW researchers who were this year's Scan Design Foundation award recipients, Dr. David Marcus, Dr. Jay Parrish and Dr. Jia Zhu, are interviewed by Dr. Tonya Palermo from UW Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine.

Scan Design Foundation partners with COurban to create custom Masterclass programs with hands-on learning in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the 2019 program, participants visit Copenhagen and Malmö, Sweden to study world-renowned public spaces and bring home inspiration and actionable strategies to the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict.

As a long-standing partner of Scan Design Foundation, i-SUSTAIN, a Seattle-based firm specializing in urban sustainability, has actively been working to bring best practices in sustainability from Denmark to the U.S.

Scan Design Foundation was created by Inger and Jens Bruun to foster and support Danish-American Relations and to provide financial support for pain research.

When I returned to Copenhagen again this August for the ScanDesign internship, I looked up the Københavns Roklub (KR) and asked if I could join.

All in all, it is a semester that is very different from what I had hoped for. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I am in the epicenter of the corona infection, in the midst of an unparalleled election and a movement for racial justice.