Global Seed Funds in Israel

Innovative impact with collaborators a world away

MIT-Israel seed funds support new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts in Israel. Like all MISTI seed fund programs, our Israel program funds early-stage, open and publishable research projects with interested researchers at MIT and at academic universities and public research institutions. View past seed fund awardees.

 

The 2024-2025 Seed Fund cycle has been launched.

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

MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund

Through an annual call for proposals, the fund primarily supports travel costs for exchange between a team at MIT and colleagues in universities in universities in Israel. This fund is open to MIT faculty from all disciplines to collaborate with Israeli faculty at one of the following instituitions: Bar-IIan University; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Tel Aviv University; University of Haifa; and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Israeli colleague(s) must be identified and at least one MIT PhD student must be included 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 MIT and Israeli participants.
  • demonstrate complementarity between MIT and Israeli participants. 
  • include MIT PhD students.

MIT-Israel Broshy Medical and Healthcare Fund

The MIT-Israel Broshy Medical and Healthcare Fund welcomes MIT faculty from all disciplines to collaborate with researchers at all Israeli universities on medical and health related research.  Priority will be given for research collaborations (1) related to Brain and Cognitive Science research, or (2) with faculty at The Open University of Israel.

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 Israeli participants
  • demonstrate complementarity between the MIT and Israeli teams
  • involve undergraduate and graduate students

David Dolev

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Managing Director, MISTI programs in the MENA region