GSF Africa
Supporting new research collaborations between MIT and Africa
The next round of the MIT Global Seed Funds will open in September 2025 with a deadline in December.
Learn more about GSFMIT-Africa Seed Fund
The MIT-Africa Seed Fund supports collaborations between MIT and universities, research institutions and NGOs across Africa.
Maximum award: $35,000
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.
