MIT Climate & Energy Prize
Runs a startup pitch prize for student teams with climate and energy ideas worldwide.
Teams apply through a single Google form covering seven parts: basic startup and project information, MIT CEP's IP, Capital and Revenue Disclosure Forms saved and uploaded as a named PDF, a pitch deck, an optional two-minute video pitch of the business and team, electronic agreement to the Rules and Conditions of Eligibility, a business-plan section covering the problem statement, core product and…
The prize is for student teams building climatetech and energy startup ideas. It's open to university students and postdoctoral fellows anywhere in the world, not only at MIT.
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Guides for this application
All guides →Grant Work Plan Template: Work Packages, Gantt, Milestones, and Risks
Use this grant work plan template to structure work packages, tasks, owners, deliverables, Gantt timing, dependencies, and risk registers.
Write proposalGrant Concept Note Example: Pre-Proposal Structure for Startups
See a practical grant concept note example, with a worked deeptech pre-proposal, section map, invite-to-full logic, and reviewer checks.
DocumentsGrant Pitch Deck Example: Slides, Storyline, and Video Script
See a grant pitch deck example with slide outline, EIC-style pitch logic, demo-video script, and grant-vs-investor deck differences.
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