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Seed Fund Program | MIT Energy Initiative The MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund Program supports innovative, early-stage clean energy research, encouraging researchers from across the Institute to collaborate in exploring new energy-related ideas and to open up new avenues for research. Since the first round in 2008, MITEI has made over 230 awards totaling more than $29 million.
Every year we make awards of up to $150,000 each for exploratory projects that show great promise for high-impact, transformative energy research. Winning proposals have come from PIs representing 29 DLCs across MIT, and we encourage submissions from all disciplines.
The program is a great way to engage with MITEI and each year, it attracts well-established energy experts as well as new faculty new to MIT or new to energy research and others who are applying their expertise in different fields to energy for the first time. Funding is provided through the MITEI Founding and Sustaining Members Program , as well as philanthropic support.
All MIT faculty and research staff with principal investigator privileges are eligible. This program supports research ideas that are exploratory with high potential impact and long time horizons. The program is not intended to provide additional resources for projects that are already underway, or incremental in nature.
You can read about awards from recent rounds in spring of 2025, spring of 2024 and spring of 2023 . Proposals across the energy spectrum that advance the energy transition, and related environmental research areas are welcome, including in science, technology, and social sciences. We welcome proposals on topics you find novel and potentially transformative.
Proposals that address innovative technologies with potential to significantly accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions while meeting growing global energy needs are particularly appropriate.
Proposals primarily focused on systems, economics, or policy analyses using established methodologies would be better directed to the calls for proposals issued by MITEI’s Future Energy System Center , which is much more likely to fund that type of research. The call for proposals will be issued in October with a Dec. 8 deadline .
Decisions will be announced in early May. Proposals must be submitted online using the MITEI Seed Fund application. Only MIT PIs are eligible to apply and proposals must include a reviewer abstract, a public abstract, a preliminary budget, and be no longer than five pages.
Please contact Brian Hodder at bhodder@mit. edu to be added to our mailing list and to be notified when the online application is available, or if you would like additional information. MIT Energy Initiative awards Seed Fund grants to six early-stage energy projects From decarbonizing chemical processes to developing new types of batteries, the winning projects of this annual award aim to develop solutions targeting net-zero emissions.
Six innovative energy projects received MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund grants Annual MITEI awards support research on carbon removal, novel materials for energy storage, improved power system planning, and more. How to decarbonize the world, at scale The MIT Energy Initiative’s Annual Research Conference highlights strategies for implementing large-scale reductions in the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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