Every year, the Lennart Ivarsson Scholarship awards the BRIO Prize. The BRIO Prize was awarded for the first time in 1992 with an aim of promoting scientific research and development linked to children and toys. This scholarship is given either to a distinguished researcher or to a non-profit organization focusing on children and play.
The Lennart Ivarsson Foundation was established in 1990 as a recognition of Lennart Ivarsson's lifelong work at BRIO AB.
2017 Associate Professor Ylva Ågren, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2016 Assistant professor Märit Jansson, researcher Åsa Klintborg Ahlklo, SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), Sweden
2015 Let Toys Be Toys, volunteer-run grassroots campaign, UK. Visit website
2014 Michel Manson, toy historian and professor at University of Paris 13, France
2013 Sudarshan Khanna, Ph.D, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
2012 Dr. David Whitebread, University Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, University of Cambridge, UK
2011 Ph Doctor Minna Ruckenstein, National Consumer Reearch Centre, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Svenska Scoutådets projekt Operation One World, Sweden
2009 Professor Gisela Wegener-Spöhring, University of Köln, Germany
2008 Save the Children Alliance
2006/07 Professor David Elkind, Taft University, USA
2005 Ph.Doctor Cleo Gougoulis,Peloponnesian Folklore, Athens, Greece
2004 Ph. Doctor Jean-Pierre Rossie, University of Ghent, Belgium
2003 Sweden´s Child and Play Therapist´s Association, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Professor Gilles Brougère, Université Paris-Nord, France
2001 Professor Jeffrey H Goldstein, University of Utrecht, Netherland
2000 Senior researcher B.A. Jörn Martin Steenhold, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Professor Dongju Shin, EHWA Womens University, Seoul, South Korea
1998 Nordic Center for Research on toys, NCFL, University of Halmstad, Sweden
1997 Organisation Spiel Gut, Ulm, Germany
1996 Professor Stephen Kline, Simon Fraser University B.C., Canada
1995 Ph. Doctor Waltraut Hartmann,University of Vienna, Austria
1994 The Swedish Montessori Association
1993 Professor Brian Sutton Smith, University of Pennsylvania, USA
1992 Ph.Doctor Birgitta Almqvist, University of Uppsala, Sweden