Cambridge, MA– The Kempner Institute at Harvard University is pleased to announce the Moise Y. Safra Collaborative Research Award at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, which will provide $50,000 seed grants to support collaborative research and scholarly exchange between the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence and academic research institutions in Israel.
The program is intended to advance compelling research that aligns with the Kempner Institute’s mission to understand intelligence in natural and artificial systems, while advancing the goals of the Kempner Safra Collaborative gift to strengthen intellectual exchange between researchers in the United States and Israel.
Open to current Kempner Institute faculty and research fellows, each seed grant application must include at least one collaborator at an Israeli academic institution. Applications open today, October 13, 2026. Please visit the Kempner Institute website to see eligibility requirements and application details.
About the Kempner Institute
The Kempner Institute seeks to understand the basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems by recruiting and training future generations of researchers to study intelligence from biological, cognitive, engineering, and computational perspectives. Its bold premise is that the fields of natural and artificial intelligence are intimately interconnected; the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) will require the same principles that our brains use for fast, flexible natural reasoning, and understanding how our brains compute and reason can be elucidated by theories developed for AI. Join the Kempner mailing list to learn more, and to receive updates and news.
