Principal Investigator Evan Lieberman
Project Website https://misti.mit.edu/
The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) makes it possible for MIT students to experience the world while advancing knowledge, tackling tough challenges, and preparing for lives of impact, service, and leadership in an interconnected global society.
For almost 40 years, MISTI has pioneered international education at MIT. We work across departments, centers, and labs throughout the Institute to enable immersive, impactful learning experiences and research opportunities for students and faculty alike.
Whether it’s creating one-of-a-kind students programs, fueling partnerships between researchers, or serving as an enabling partner for exciting programs across the Institute, MISTI delivers the training, resources, insights, and expertise that make it possible for MIT students and faculty to learn from the world and with it.
MISTI empowers MIT students and faculty to advance knowledge and solve the world’s great challenges by connecting them with researchers, companies, and other partners around the world.
MISTI Furthers MIT’s educational objectives by creating applied international learning opportunities for MIT students that increase their ability to understand and address real-world problems. It bolsters the Institute’s research mission by promoting collaborations between MIT faculty members and their counterparts abroad.
MISTI also Partners with companies, universities, research institutions, non-profit organizations, and government entities, especially those that serve as hosts and collaborators for our students and faculty, to address shared challenges. MISTI Collaborates with partners around the Institute, serving as a vital nexus of international activity, to enable and inspire international projects and initiatives.
MISTI’s Global Seed Funds bring investigators from MIT together with peer institutions abroad to explore areas of research and projects that might benefit from greater international collaboration while also encouraging new learning opportunities for MIT’s undergraduate and graduate students.