MIT Solve Global Challenges 2027
MIT Solve · Social-impact challenge
Varies$10,000 Solver Award per selected team; an average of about $40K per team after selection, from a prize pool of over $1M
An open call for tech-based solutions in health, climate, economic prosperity and learning. Selected Solver teams get a $10K grant, access to more than $1M in sponsor prizes, and nine months of support.
Key terms
- Solutions must use technology to address a challenge
- Must be at the prototype, pilot, growth or scale stage; concept-stage ideas are reviewed only for the Indigenous Communities Fellowship
- One solution per challenge per team lead
- Previously selected solutions can reapply only if they are new
- Both for-profit and nonprofit models appear in the stage definitions
Eligibility
- Where
- Worldwide
- Stages
- pre-seed, seed, series-a, growth
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- No
- Needs partner referral code
- No
- Must be incorporated
- No
- AI focus required
- No
- Students / researchers
- Eligible
- Nonprofits
- Eligible
Also required
- At least a working prototype required
How to apply
Submit through the Solve platform by 6 Nov 2026, 12:00pm EST, per the Global Health challenge page. Application clinics are available.
- Benefit
- cash
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- —
- Credit validity
- —
- Deadline
- 2026-11-06
- Status
- Open
Verified 2026-10-23 · source