MIT Skoltech Program issues call for seed fund proposals
After a successful first round of seed grants, the MIT Skoltech Seed Fund Program is calling for a second round of proposals from MIT principal investigators from any of the Institute's five schools. The call is open now through July 28. The program seeks innovative projects that have the potential to benefit either the development of Skoltech or the mission of the Skolkovo Foundation. The MIT Skoltech Seed Fund Program strongly encourages proposals that involve collaborative research with Skoltech or other Russian academic and research institutions. Interested researchers are encouraged to submit proposals in the following three main categories: research projects in science and engineering (biomedicine, energy, information technology, data science and computational modeling, product design and manufacturing, and space); research projects in the areas of policy, economics, humanities, arts, and social sciences (especially innovation and entrepreneurship, international collaborative programs, technology and policy, and general Russian studies, including Russian history, Russian art, and...