MIT Solve Global Learning Challenge 2027

MIT Solve runs open innovation challenges that look for tech-based solutions from anyone, anywhere in the world. The 2027 Global Learning Challenge asks: how can we close global education gaps while improving outcomes for every learner?

For 2027, Solve is particularly interested in solutions that:

• Strengthen teachers' practice with evidence-grounded tools that support teachers' judgment rather than automate it
• Work in emergency or low-resource settings, including low-bandwidth, offline or low-cost designs and tools for school or district systems
• Assistive or multilingual technology for learners with disabilities or learners using non-dominant languages
• Better assessment of what learners know and can do, including formative assessment, diagnostics or early screening

Every Solver team gets a US$10,000 (about ₹9.5 lakh) Solver Award grant funded by Solve, and Solver teams receive an average of about US$40,000 (about ₹38 lakh) each after selection from a pool of more than US$1 million in prize funding. Extra prizes are open to selected teams, including the AI for Humanity Prize (up to US$150,000, about ₹1.43 crore, for at least one team), the Crescent Enterprises AI for Social Innovation Prize (up to US$100,000 across as many as four teams), the E Ink Innovation Prize (US$75,000 across up to three teams) and the Seeding the Future Prize for climate-positive food systems (US$150,000 for one or more teams). Some prizes, such as the Citizens and Morgridge prizes, are only for teams based or working in the United States.

Selected teams join a nine-month Solver program with capacity-building workshops, leadership coaching, in-kind and pro bono resources, monitoring and evaluation support, media exposure and Solve's network. The program takes about 25 hours over nine months, plus four days at Solver Orientation in Cambridge, MA (April) and four days at Solve Challenge Finals in New York City (September).

Applications close on 6 November 2026 at 12:00 pm EST (10:30 pm IST). Finalists are told in February and pitch live online before judges pick the Solver class.