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Global Seed Funds in France

Innovative impact with collaborators a world away

The MIT-France Seed Fund, a $2 million endowment funded equally by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MIT, supports new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts in France.

The 2024-2025 Seed Fund cycle has been launched.

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The GSF Application Portal has opened on September 10th, 2024 and has closed on December 10th, 2024.

MIT-France Seed Fund

Through an annual call for proposals, the fund primarily supports travel costs for exchange between a team at MIT and colleagues in universities and public research in France. The French colleague(s) must be identified in the proposal. 

 All general Global Seed Funds criteria, application, and evaluation procedures apply.

$30,000

Priority will be given to projects that:

  • propose a balanced exchange between the MIT and French participants
  • demonstrate complementarity between the MIT and French teams
  • involve undergraduate and graduate students

Contact us

Contact

For more information, email mit-france [at] mit.edu.