MIT SOLVE

Solve is a community that identifies and supports lasting solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges in learning, health, sustainability, and economic prosperity.

Every year, Solve issues actionable challenges with the potential to affect millions of lives, and anyone in the world can submit their solutions through an open innovation platform. Solve judges — MIT faculty, industry experts, and civil society leaders — identify finalists from these submissions to become ‘Solvers,’ and Solve connects these “Solvers” with its community of leaders and change-makers, who have the resources, expertise, and know-how to get each solution piloted, scaled, and implemented

Technology for good

As an initiative of MIT, solving is core to what we do. We believe that to build a better future for all, we need new voices and ideas. 

We launch open calls for brilliant and bold tech-based solutions that solve big problems.

With over 280 million lives reached to date, we think we’re onto something.

Sustainable impact

Our community of innovators and their solutions have a far-ranging impact, reaching over 280 million lives around the world. That’s tens of thousands of refugee kids in Lebanon with access to offline educational content, that’s a farmer in Ethiopia able to establish credit and break out of generational poverty, it’s a premature baby born healthy in Bangladesh, and a family able to rebuild their home after a devastating earthquake in Nepal. 

These stories remind us that true impact is measured not only in metrics but also in the lasting difference made in human lives.  

Builders of bold solutions

We’re on a mission to find proximate leaders who are using technology to solve problems within their communities and the world.

The most transformative solutions often come from people who never intended to be innovators at all—they simply rejected broken systems. To date, we’ve supported 480 innovators that are reaching 280 million people worldwide.