Collaborative research awards or grants are issued to MIT and Kuwait investigators in response to specific proposal solicitations. Two programs are designed with different scope and funding levels, one focusing on exploratory research and the other on signature research.
The goal of this program is to open new early-stage research directions relevant to MIT and Kuwait and to create platforms for the joint creation and dissemination of knowledge.
The goal of this program is the collaborative advancement of multi-disciplinary research and creating frameworks and testing feasibility of technologies and developing them to a stage that is close to deployment.