Since 2019, the MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund for Faculty Collaboration, supported a total of 37 collaborations between MIT and Israeli Universities.
Suhib Abu-Qbeitah
School of Mechanical Engineering Tel Aviv UniversityChristopher Voigt
Department of Biological Engineering MITIgor Korover
Department of Physics Tel Aviv UniversityThe MIT Center for International Studies has opened the Global Seed Funds (GSF) 2025-26 cycle. Submit your collaborative project by December 16th, 2025.
The GSF grant program promotes and supports early-stage collaborations between MIT faculty members and researchers and their counterparts around the globe. Many of the joint projects funded lead to publications, additional grant awards, and the development of valuable long-term relationships between international researchers and MIT faculty and students.
GSF grants enable participating teams to spend time together, either at MIT or abroad, with the aim of developing and launching joint projects. MIT faculty are encouraged to include MIT undergraduate and graduate students in their projects as participating members of the collaborating team. Most funds provide a maximum of $30,000.
GSF is comprised of a general fund and over twenty country, region or university-specific funds including the Zuckerman STEM Fund in Israel.
MIT- Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund: open to MIT faculty from all disciplines to collaborate with Israeli faculty at one of the following Institutions: Bar-Ilan University; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Tel Aviv University; University of Haifa; and the Weizmann Institute of Science. MIT PhD students must be included in the proposal.
“The MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund shows that the deep bond between MIT and Israeli peers is vital for the advancement of scientific research and the spread of new discoveries. Since its inception three years ago, the Fund allowed students and faculty from both countries to address important challenges, to inspire new solutions and to building meaningful relationships across our academic communities.”
– Eran Ben Joseph, Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Established in 2019, the MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund for Faculty Collaboration is a strategic partnership that continues to enhance collaboration and deepen relations between Israel and the US — the core vision of the program.
To date, MIT and Zuckerman STEM Fund program researchers have collaborated on 37 projects. See the candids from the launch.
August 14, 2023, Tel Aviv (l-r): Lina Deshilton, Executive Director, Zuckerman Israel Institute; Arsen Vasilyan, MIT graduate student; Prof. Eran Ben-Josef, MIT; Marie-Laure Charpignon, MIT graduate student