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DENMARK, Copenhagen: EK Charrette International Design Workshop

Location:

EK campus Copenhagen, Denmark 

EK Charrette 2026

EK Business Academy Copenhagen – in Danish; Erhvervsakademi København (EK), is happy to invite students and lecturers once again to be part of the Charrette workshop at EK.  
Students from various design disciplines are welcome to participate; Architecture, Urban Design, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Product Design, Digital Design, Web Development, Fashion and Jewelry Design as well as Marketing/Business Development and Concept Development. 
It is important that the students and lecturers are interested in working across disciplines and learning, listening, and developing outside their own field. 

The theme for the Charrette is still being developed, but as always sustainability will be at the heart of the theme, and we can’t wait to share the specifics of the theme with you soon! 

The participation cost will be around €380-400 per student (including workshop fee, accommodation Saturday-Saturday, local transportation, daytime meals etc.).  

THE FRAME
1 week
100 students and advisors from all over the globe (8-10 Fontys students and 2 advisors)
Local organisations and companies in Copenhagen
10 innovative solutions
Unlimited network opportunities

ERASMUS 
The Charrette is again offered as an Erasmus BIP project and students are able to apply for BIP funding. 

Methods and Outcomes

  • As students you will engage with the overall difficult question by engaging with a local urban space.
  • Your task will be to come up with a concept for maintenance that fosters care for what is already there.
  • In other words, you will need to analyze the space and point towards what is worth maintaining and caring for in this space and why.
  • You will then need to come up with a concept for how to create practices of maintaining and caring in the space.

SIGN UP 
Registration is open for 10 Fontys students Human Centered Design and 2 lecturers to participate the Charrette as advisors.
Students can sign up through the form on the right.

CHECK OUT
You can learn more about the Charrette (including former projects) here. 
Learn more about EK Copenhagen. 

This international project is an Erasmus+ BIP / STBM Erasums+ Logo
Virtual Session(s)
Introduction EK Charrette
Time: date and time t.b.d.
EK Charrette International Design Workshop
Start date: Oct 4, 2026
End date: Oct 9, 2026
Costs: € 390
Remark: between €380-400
Registration form

Note: NOT your PCN but your Student number (7 digits)

Payment order of compensation for travel costs is processed and paid out via the bank account known to Fontys.
If tuition fees are paid by a third party, please enter your personal IBAN here:

Please ONLY fill in your bank account if you do not pay the Fontys tuition fees yourself.

Please enter: +, followed by your country code and your number, without spaces or brackets

Please use your Fontys email address with your name, NOT your PCN!

Read the cancellation conditions here

Recap EK Charrette 2025

A group of Human Centered Design students and lecturers Constanze Thomassen and Eric Heijligers travelled to Denmark for the annual KEA Charrette in October yearly since approx 10 years. Theme of the international design workshop differs per year. The theme in 2025 was "The Art of Keeping - Sustainability through Care and Maintenance".