Global grassroots innovation tackling the COVID-19 crisis, fueled by the MIT ecosystem

The MIT COVID-19 Challenge harnessed the passion, enthusiasm and expertise of thousands of innovators world-wide via a series of virtual hackathons that resulted in initiatives that address the many challenges related to COVID-19. The MIT COVID-19 Challenge was launched in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative was built by members of the MIT community with the foundational support of the MIT Innovation Initiative, Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, and MIT Hacking Medicine.

COVID-19 IDEAthon

March 21, 2020

Beat the Pandemic I

April 3-5, 2020

Africa Takes on COVID-19

May 1-3, 2020

COVID-19 Datathon

May 10-16, 2020

Beat the Pandemic II

May 29-31, 2020

Latin America vs. COVID-19

June 19-21, 2020

India Turning the Tide

August 28-30, 2020

Hack 4 the Future

November 6-8, 2020

MIT COVID-19 Challenge Ecosystem