GSF Belgium
Supporting new research collaborations between MIT and top universities in Belgium
The next round of the MIT Global Seed Funds will open in September 2025 with a deadline in December.
Learn more about GSFMIT-Belgium - KU Leuven Seed Fund
The MIT-Belgium - KU Leuven Seed Fund supports collaborations between MIT and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Maximum award: $30,000
Ranked the most innovative university in Europe by Reuters in 2016, 2017, and 2018, KU Leuven conducts one of the largest independent research operations in the world. The university regularly produces a high volume of influential inventions, and its researchers submit more patents than most of its fellow universities in Europe. Among the university’s inventions are the world’s leading anti-HIV drug, a leak detection system for aircraft, and an encryption algorithm that keeps personal online data secure.
MIT-Belgium - UCLouvain Seed Fund
The MIT-Belgium Université catholique de Louvain Seed Fund supports collaborations between MIT and Université catholique de Louvain.
Maximum award: $30,000
The Université catholique de Louvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Research performed at UCL has led to spin-off firms such as Ion Beam Applications (IBA), a worldwide leader in the field of construction of small cyclotrons for medical and industrial use. Other examples of successful spin-offs are Xylowatt, a company that uses a UCL-developed method to create energy by gasification of waste wood, and Alterface, creator of interactive multimedia systems based on software that reconstructs digital video images.
