Climate Project Cross-Mission Themes
In Spring 2025, the Climate Project at MIT invited individual MIT PIs to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) for participation in cross-cutting research on two themes:
- Sense, share, and understanding the state of the climate and planet.
- Heat stress and cooling solutions.
Initially, this call will provide around $1M in funding for 6 months distributed across these teams with an opportunity for follow-on funding supported by additional funding of up to $3M over a subsequent 18 months (for a total of $4M over 2 years.)
Update on process
The deadline to submit was May 9, 2025. More than 100 faculty and PIs responded to the call.
The faculty Mission Directors are now in the process of reviewing the various submissions and ideas to build small interdisciplinary research teams to develop full proposals addressing key questions in these themes.
Learn more about the process to develop full proposals that this step will support.
Browse the Open Call FAQ.
Climate Missions
Each Climate Mission will address a broad domain where solutions are required for effective climate response and where a critical mass of excellent research capabilities exists at MIT.
Superseded information
- Full description about the Open Call and Expressions of Interest (PDF)
- Background information
- Theme 1: Sense, Share, and Understand (PDF)
- Theme 2: Heat Stress and Cooling (PDF)
- Eligibility and funding
- Process and timeline to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI)
- Narrative template for EOI. Other forms and templates available upon logging in to InfoReady.
- Schedule and registration for April 2025 workshops
- Information about the second phase: developing full proposals
- Open Call FAQ.
Contact climate_hq@mit.edu for further assistance.