Funder: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Planning grants: $10,000–$30,000; full proposals: $30,000–$200,000 in direct costs; one-year projects
Summary: Supports multidisciplinary collaborations connecting MIT’s humanities, arts, and social sciences with other MIT schools and the college.
Key Information: Requires a SHASS PI and an MIT co-PI outside SHASS; the SHASS lead must submit.
Description
The SHASS+ Connectivity Fund, part of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), supports collaborations between researchers in MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and colleagues in other MIT schools and the college. It provides seed support for new partnerships and resources for ongoing collaborations through full project grants and smaller planning grants. Supported activities include research, scholarly workshops, and collaborative meetings.
The fund seeks original work that advances scholarship or artistic practices, with SHASS contributions central to a genuinely multidisciplinary endeavor. Projects should depend on collaborators’ expertise across disciplines throughout the work and offer substantial, transformative potential. Planning grants can develop relationships and ideas toward larger projects. Work addressing the intersection of AI and society is especially welcome.
