MIT Solve Global Challenges
Supports teams tackling global challenges by selecting and backing scalable ideas through MIT Solve challenge pathways.
MIT Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that runs annual global challenge competitions to identify and fund innovators — called Solver teams — addressing major societal problems. The program is globally open: MIT Solve has received more than 28,200 applications from over 190 countries across its lifetime and does not require MIT affiliation, making it the only MIT-b…
Global challenges across health, climate, education, economic opportunity and other themes — the currently accepting 2027 Indigenous Communities, Economic Prosperity, Learning, Health and Climate challenges, with terms published per challenge.
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