Transforming the future of energy requires bold support. Your gift to MITEI fuels innovation, empowers students, and drives global impact.
Help build a clean energy future. Support the MIT Energy Initiative.
Join our urgent effort to change the world by advancing vital innovations and analyses. You can support our work to drive the energy transition, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and address the universal need for secure, reliable, and affordable energy. Through the Seed Innovation Fund, you could sponsor research that leads to new inventions for decarbonizing energy systems. Your support of Energy Scholars and the MITEI Energy Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) will provide MIT’s talented students—the next generation of energy leaders—with research opportunities across many MIT departments and labs.
MIT Energy Initiative Fund
This fund provides unrestricted support of the MIT Energy Initiative.
Your support by the numbers
$15K
Funds a year of UROP support
$100K
Funds one Energy Scholar for one year
$175K
Funds one Seed Innovation Fund research project
Support students
MIT Energy Initiative Energy Education Fund
Supports graduate and undergraduate education-related initiatives, including further development of graduate-level experiential learning opportunities and the expansion of the Energy Studies Minor.
MIT Energy Initiative UROP Fund
Supports Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) projects with a focus on energy-related research.
MIT Energy Initiative Energy Scholars Fund
Supports graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with deep interest in expediting the energy transition.
Support research
MIT Energy Initiative Seed Innovation Fund
Supports a spectrum of innovative, early-stage clean energy research projects.
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MITEI Affiliates are primarily individual donors and foundations that support MITEI’s energy- and climate-related activities across the Institute. Affiliate members receive access to our annual research conference, spring symposium, as well as other symposia, colloquia, and seminars.
I've been able to see how the technical work that I'm doing is going to directly impact policy today and into the future.
Before I received the MITEI funding, I was working on another funded project in order to pay my salary, but I was always interested in pursuing this unfunded project.
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