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
- travel & meeting costs to facilitate collaboration in Africa
- MIT salaries (e.g. faculty summer months, RAs, postdocs, etc.)
- materials & supplies
- services
- equipment
- indirect costs
Funding may not be used for salaries for foreign collaborators.
All general Global Seed Funds criteria, application, and evaluation procedures apply.
