GSF Africa

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 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. 

The MIT-Africa Seed Fund allows for the funds to be used for: Research-related services, supplies, equipment, or materials MIT salaries (e.g. faculty summer months, Ras, postdocs, etc.) To cover travel and meeting costs to facilitate international projects and collaboration in Africa.