Call for Proposals: MISTI MIT-Israel Seed Funds

MISTI offers seed funds to enable MIT faculty and researchers to launch early-stage international projects and collaboration with colleagues abroad.

MISTI Global Seed Funds includes a general Fund for projects in any country and additional country funds for projects in 14 countries including Israel (Fund open to all Israeli faculty) . There is also a specific Fund for collaboration between MIT faculty and faculty at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Funding may be used to cover travel, meeting and workshop costs to facilitate international projects and collaboration. Faculty applicants are encouraged to involve MIT undergraduate and graduate students in their projects. In 2016, MISTI awarded over $1.7 million to 84 projects. Over $1.6 million is available in this current grant cycle.

The application deadline is September 18, 2017.

For more information and to apply: http://misti.mit.edu/faculty-funds/overview

Contact: [email protected]