Accelerating Innovation in Brazil
This project examines how to better accelerate innovation in Brazil’s companies and industries, focusing on the role of the SENAI Innovation Institutes, a network of applied research centers in Brazil.
Brazil
Accountability and Incumbent Performance in Brazil
This project is designed to test whether information about incumbent performance, particularly with respect to highly salient drought mitigation policies, can induce accountability in northeastern Brazil.
Brazil Seed Fund
Seed funds for Brazil promote cutting-edge research collaborations and help to deepen partnerships between MIT faculty and researchers and their Brazilian counterparts.
Creative Learning in Brazil
The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning in Brazilian public education.
Graduate Certificate in Logistics
The Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (GCLOG), designed for outstanding students from Latin America, includes online coursework and seminars hosted on the MIT campus.
International Development Innovation Network
A consortium of partners led by MIT, IDIN empowers a diverse, global network of innovators to design, develop, and disseminate low-cost technologies to improve the lives of people living in poverty.
Media Cloud Brazil
MIT Center for Civic Media
This project seeks to analyze the online debate on the most controversial and politically hot topics of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet, namely network neutrality and copyright reform.
MISTI Internships
MIT Fab Labs
Activities in Fab Labs range from technological empowerment to peer-to-peer project-based technical training to local problem-solving to small-scale high-tech business incubation to grass-roots research.
MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Brazil
This group of alumni organize workshops, seminars, and meetings primarily but not exclusively dedicated to the MIT Sloan Alumni community in Brazil.
MIT-Brazil
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s flagship international education program, matching MIT students with internship, research and teaching opportunities abroad.
Sana Audio Pulse
MIT researchers collaborating with peers from the US and Brazil have developed Sana AudioPulse, a technology that uses cellphones with specialized hardware, to screen for hearing impairment in newborns.
The Future of Urban Housing in Brazil
The School of Architecture and Planning and the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) at MIT have established a long-term initiative to rethink the future of affordable housing in Brazil, which faces an estimated shortage of 7 million units.
Tracking Informal Recycling in Brazil
Researchers from MIT and the University of São Paulo are working to understand how informal recyclers in Brazilian cities find and collect material, and to help connect the cooperative to citizens.
Vale Technological Institute
MIT Sloan works with Vale Technological Institute (Instituto Tecnológico Vale, ITV) on academic and research efforts that promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development.