International initiatives

A Pimp my Carroça cart displays the text: “Let’s recycle today so that we live well tomorrow.”

Solving global problems with MIT in Brazil

MIT student travels to São Paulo to assist non-profit in recognizing and organizing waste collectors.

February 26, 2016

Israel and MIT: Celebrating eight years of growth at the Institute

The MIT-Israel Program supports new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts in Israel.

February 22, 2016

MIT Professional Education launches its first program in Taiwan

Course led by two from the Media Lab focused on improving the livability of cities while dramatically reducing resource consumption.

February 16, 2016

Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

"Even when you have great technology, you need some incentive for people to reduce pollution. We need to find ways to make the benefit of reducing pollution felt by the ones who are paying the cost of reducing pollution." —Ariel Zucker, MIT doctoral student in economics

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

CLIx will offer young people, especially from lower- and middle-income rural areas of India, access to interactive, hands-on learning experiences to advance their knowledge and skills, and to instill values to help them succeed as professionals and citizens, with a focus on cultivating students’ sense of professionalism.

MIT joins collaboration to bring connected learning experiences to Indian students and teachers

Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) will integrate technology for active learning in secondary schools.

January 27, 2016

This GridForm model of a village in Bihar, India, shows the optimal layout of hardware for the load profiles of the community. Each building, color-coded by the cost (in Indian rupees) of supplying electricity to that structure, is wired to a central generation/storage node (solid lines), and the nodes are connected to each other (dotted lines).

Going off grid: Tata researchers tackle rural electrification

At MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design, researchers are exploring ways to extend electricity access to rural communities in India using microgrids.

January 21, 2016

Preparing for large-scale solar deployment

Researchers are examining measures to ensure a reliable future power system.

December 30, 2015

MIT grad student Leah Rosenzweig coordinating data collection in Jigawa, Nigeria

New insights on political participation in Sub-Sahara Africa

PhD student Leah Rosenzweig's electoral insights shed light on reasons for citizen participation in authoritarian and transitional countries in Sub-Sahara Africa.

December 21, 2015

"At l’Institut de la Vision, I helped develop a tool that is changing how biology is viewed — literally. I now plan to continue research full-time in a lab or company, ideally in France, after graduation." –Sunanda Sharma, MIT-France Program participant

MIT-France: Bolstering connections between MIT and the world

MIT political scientist Suzanne Berger provides perspective on MIT-France, one of the flagship programs of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives.

December 14, 2015

MIT Professional Education students from South Africa use Lego bricks in a manufacturing game to assemble small cars.

MIT Professional Education trains South African managers from the manufacturing sector

December 14, 2015

Masdar Institute PhD students at MIT for the fall term, conducting research and attending classes

Masdar Institute students experience innovation and entrepreneurship at MIT

December 4, 2015

MIT Professor Thomas Malone (standing) announced the launch of new MIT-United Nations climate-hazard online contests Dec. 2 at the Resilience Focus Session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

United Nations and MIT collaborate on climate change resilience

The MIT Climate CoLab, in collaboration with the UN secretary-general, will launch a series of online contests seeking solutions for climate-vulnerable communities.

December 2, 2015

Henry Thomas Tizard (center), British physicist and head of the Tizard Mission, visits with MIT researchers. The 1940 Tizard Mission introduced to the U.S. the newly invented resonant-cavity magnetron and other British radar developments, and helped establish MIT as a major federally funded research university.

How the Tizard Mission paved the way for research at MIT

Seventy-five years ago, an international meeting of scientific minds changed forever how MIT and other research institutions develop new technologies.

November 23, 2015

Members of the GTL Armenia pilot program pose in Republic Square: (l-r) Jessica Maghakian, Narek Dshkhunyan, Daniel Corney, Armen Samurkashian, Yara Azouni and Edgar Minasyan.

MISTI Global Teaching Labs launches pilot program in Armenia

Five MIT students travel abroad to support and empower young technology entrepreneurs.