Address Africa-Relevant Global Challenges
This fund is offered annually by the Office of Vice Provost for International Activities in association with the MIT Center for International Studies.
This fund is offered annually by the Office of Vice Provost for International Activities in association with the MIT Center for International Studies.
The GSF Application Portal has opened on September 10th, 2024 and will close on December 10th, 2024.
Interested Principal Investigators from all schools, departments, labs, and centers across MIT are encouraged to submit proposals in the following categories:
1. Projects in all research areas that will contribute to addressing a specific challenge in Africa or shared by African colleagues. These can be the beginning explorations of larger research projects, they can be entirely self-contained research projects, or they can be planning exercises that result in a more well-articulated and larger-scale research proposal.
2. Other non-research activities that promote engagement and collaboration in topics and activities that may involve Africa, such as developing a course, masterclass, or hackathon, strengthening the innovation/entrepreneurship ecosystem, etc.
Funding may be used for, but is not limited to
Funding may not be used for salaries for foreign collaborators.
All general Global Seed Funds criteria, application, and evaluation procedures apply.
$35,000