MIT Solve 10th Anniversary Global Challenge

📝 About MIT Solve 10th Anniversary Global Challenge

For its 10th Anniversary Global Challenge, MIT Solve is seeking 10 exceptional solutions designed for the next decade. These solutions should address urgent problems and demonstrate credible pathways to scale through markets, policy, procurement, or platforms. The focus is on innovations that prioritize people, pair technological ingenuity with trust, and foster durable economics.

🎁 Benefits of MIT Solve 10th Anniversary Global Challenge

The AI for Humanity Prize

• Open to solutions leveraging data science, artificial intelligence, and/or machine learning to benefit humanity.
• Sponsored by The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, which aims to advance AI and data solutions for a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future.
• Funding: Up to $150,000 awarded to one Solver team.

The E Ink Innovation Prize

• Open to solutions addressing global challenges in areas such as sustainability, education, or intercultural understanding.
• Sponsored by E Ink, a corporation promoting sustainable solutions through ultra-low power, daylight-readable displays.
• Funding: $100,000 awarded to one Solver team.
• Additional support: E Ink may provide materials and technical assistance for solutions utilizing ePaper materials.

The Citizens Workforce Innovation Prize

• Focuses on solutions that prepare people for current and future workplace opportunities, advance new ways of working, and drive economic impact within communities.
• Sponsored by Citizens, committed to helping communities adapt to future demands.
• Funding: $100,000 awarded to at least one US-based Solver team.

The Collegium Prize for Innovation

• Open to scale-ready solutions using innovative technology to improve mental health or transform mental health care globally.
• Sponsored by Collegium, a Boston-area pharmaceutical company passionate about community health and well-being.
• Funding: $100,000 awarded to one Solver team.

The Seeding the Future Prize for Climate-Positive and Equitable Food Systems

• Recognizes high-impact innovations advancing equitable, resilient, and climate-positive food systems worldwide.
• Sponsored by Seeding the Future Van Lengerich Foundation, supporting scalable initiatives for sustainable food systems.
• Funding: $100,000 awarded to one Solver team.

✅ Requirements for Participation

• Solutions must be tech-based and focused on social impact.
• Solutions should already be growing or operating at scale.
• Submissions should aim to improve social or environmental outcomes and align with at least one UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator.

📅 Application Date and Process

• Application Deadline: 21 May, 2026
• Visit the application website to apply.

🔗 Opportunity Application

For more details, visit the official MIT Solve website.

• The AI for Humanity Prize: Up to $150,000 awarded to one Solver team leveraging data science, AI, and/or machine learning to benefit humanity.
• The E Ink Innovation Prize: $100,000 awarded to one Solver team addressing global importance problems, with interest in sustainability, education, or intercultural understanding.
• The Citizens Workforce Innovation Prize: $100,000 awarded to at least one US-based Solver team preparing people for future workplace opportunities.
• The Collegium Prize for Innovation: $100,000 awarded to one selected Solver team using innovative technology to improve mental health.
• The Seeding the Future Prize for Climate-Positive and Equitable Food Systems: $100,000 awarded to one Solver team advancing equitable, resilient, and climate-positive food systems.