Applications Invited for Youth Innovation Challenge

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About the Organization

Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a mission to solve world challenges. Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation. Through open innovation Challenges, Solve finds incredible tech-based social entrepreneurs all around the world. Solve then brings together MIT’s innovation ecosystem and a community of Members to fund and support these entrepreneurs to help them drive lasting, transformational impact. Join Solve on this journey at solve.mit.edu.

About the Challenge

Young people hold the empathy, power, and ingenuity to solve problems, in their communities, the world, and everywhere in between. Solv[ED] is designed to spark a sense of agency in young people aged 24 and under, encouraging, inspiring, and supporting them to become problem-solvers in their communities and the world.

Millions of children are still out of school. The negative impacts of climate change continue to accelerate and shock our natural, social, and economic systems. Economic inequality is growing within and between countries. A global pandemic is exacerbating and exposing massive health and social inequities. We need everyone to roll up their sleeves and take part in addressing these challenges, even (and especially) when we feel overwhelmed. Each one of us has a role to play. And it’s never too early to get started.

The Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for you to submit your tech-based solution that:

• Improves learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on
• Supports financial and economic opportunities for all 
• Accelerates healthcare access and health outcomes, reducing and, ultimately, eliminating disparities in health
• Takes action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Addresses an unmet social, environmental, or economic need not covered in the four topics above.

Prizes

All solutions selected for the Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge will receive a minimum grant of $5,000 each. Additional funding from a pool of $60,000 will be made available to the innovators selected. This funding is made possible by an anonymous donor.

Deadline

January 18, 2022

11:59 AM EST

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