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MIT-Spain Seed Fund

The MIT-Spain Seed Fund is a part of the MISTI Global Seed Funds.

Funded by the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, the MIT-Spain Seed Fund encourages collaboration between the MIT community and companies, universities, and research laboratories in Spain.

Grants may be used to explore the potential for collective collaboration and technological transfer in a start-up phase. MIT-Spain welcomes proposals from all disciplines represented by the five schools at MIT: architecture and planning; engineering; humanities; arts and social sciences; management; and science.

The maximum award is $20,000 for a year-long project period. Additional funds of up to $10,000 from the MISTI Global Seed Funds may be available for involving qualified MIT undergraduate and graduate students in the project.

Priority will be given to new projects that:

  • centrally involve younger scholars
  • propose a balanced exchange between the MIT and Spanish participants
  • demonstrate complementarity between the MIT and Spanish teams

MIT-Spain funds cannot be used to support salaries or to cover materials or instrument usage costs.

Proposals will be evaluated and selected by the MIT-Spain Scientific Committee. The MIT-Spain Advisory Board defines the priorities of program activities supported by the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce.

The deadline for the 2008-2009 grant round is October 20, 2008 for projects to be carried out through December 2009. Winners will be announced in early December 2008.

For more information, please visit the MISTI Global Seed Funds webpage.

Funded Projects:

2007-2008 Grant Recipients

Flow of Electrolytes Induced by Large AC Voltages

A collaboration between:

  • Martin Bazant, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, MIT Department of Mathematics
  • Antonio Ramos, Associate Professor, Department of Elctronica y Electromagnetismo, Universidad de Sevilla

MIT-Spain/Chamber Support: $13,000

Numerical Modeling of Nano Electronic Devices

A collaboration between:

  • Tomas Palacios, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
  • Enrique ZuaZua, Professor, Madrid Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IMDEA), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

MIT-Spain/Chamber Support: $10,000

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles/Underwater Acoustic Communications

A collaboration between:

  • Milica Stojanovic, Principal Scientist, MIT Sea Grant College Program, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Lab
  • Javier Fonollosa, Professor, Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

MIT-Spain/Chamber Support: $7,000

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