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MIT Solve Global Climate Challenge 2027

MIT Solve

About This Scheme

MIT Solve seeks innovative, tech-based solutions to equitably adapt to a warming climate and decarbonize how we live and eat, offering grants and prizes.

The MIT Solve 2027 Global Climate Challenge invites innovators worldwide to develop impactful solutions for the urgent climate crisis. This challenge focuses on equitable adaptation strategies and decarbonization across critical areas, including low-carbon and climate-resilient cities, protection against extreme climate hazards, transformation of agrifood systems, and sustainable use of ocean and coastal environments.

Decades of delayed climate action have made adaptation critically urgent, with significant emissions stemming from food systems, urban development, and industrial practices. Communities globally face escalating heat, flooding, drought, and wildfires, often with limited resources. Solutions are needed that can be implemented within existing systems, budgets, and infrastructure, demonstrating both impact and financial sustainability.

MIT Solve welcomes diverse technologies, from advanced robotics and AI to traditional and natural knowledge systems, that can improve monitoring, enhance infrastructure, optimize resource management, and strengthen community resilience. The program seeks human-centered and tech-based innovations that expand local capabilities and foster trusted decision-making to build low-carbon systems, protect biodiversity, and help communities thrive in a changing climate. Entrepreneurs and teams from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply with innovative ideas that address these pressing global challenges.

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Benefits

Selected Solver teams receive a ₹9.5 lakh (US$10,000) grant directly from Solve, along with access to a pool of over ₹9.5 crore (US$1 million) in additional prize funding.
This includes specialized prizes like the AI for Humanity Prize, Citizens Workforce Innovation Prize, Community Catalyst Prize, and more, offering substantial further investment for winning teams.
Beyond the financial support, the program provides a comprehensive nine-month support journey featuring tailored capacity-building workshops covering critical areas such as marketing, public relations, monitoring and evaluation, and business model development.
Innovators also benefit from leadership coaching, access to valuable in-kind and pro bono resources like software licenses and legal services, and dedicated monitoring and evaluation support.
A powerful network of impact-minded leaders, including MIT connections, offers extensive networking opportunities, pitch events, media exposure, and peer-to-peer support with current and past Solver teams.

How to Apply

1d — 2 Nov 2026

Selection Process

The selection process for the MIT Solve Global Climate Challenge is rigorous and multi-staged.
Initially, Solve's staff and community conduct an initial screening to ensure alignment with the challenge criteria.
Following this, expert reviewers meticulously evaluate and score the submitted solutions based on Solve’s comprehensive judging criteria.
Solutions with the highest scores advance to the semifinalist round.
In the semifinalist stage, Challenge Leadership Group judges, comprising experts and leaders from various industries and sectors, further evaluate and score the solutions.
The top-scoring solutions are then selected as finalists.
Finalists are typically notified in February and invited to participate in a virtual live pitch and Q&A session with the judges.
After these presentations, the judges deliberate to select the final Solver class, who are then onboarded into the nine-month support program.
Key evaluation criteria include alignment with the challenge, potential for impact, feasibility, innovative approach, human-centered design, scalability, partnership potential, and technical feasibility.

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Application Window

1d — 2 Nov 2026