Opportunities Overview
MIT REAP RGN offers a number of opportunities for REAP Alumni, including:
Objectives
- Build a global community of regional innovation leaders
- Enable continuous intra-cohort and inter-cohort MIT REAP collaborations
- Track impact of MIT REAP team activities post-program
- Increase awareness of the MIT approach to the science of innovation
- Assess impact through surveys & data
Convenings and ‘Reunions’
- Convenings and ‘reunions’ open to all MIT REAP Alumni (and often current MIT REAP Teams)
- Events held 1-3x / year, in a variety of global MIT REAP regions
- MIT REAP team uses future travel to see MIT REAP Alumni
- MIT REAP regions to present their progress and exchange knowledge
MIT REAP Team Mentorship Initiative
- Opportunity for MIT REAP Alumni –Mentors – and current MIT REAP Teams – to engage more closely in collaboration and knowledge-and expertise sharing.
- Project-based opportunity for collaboration, available during the 2-year MIT REAP program.
- Choose from different categories of challenges to work on, including action-based challenges, workshop-based challenges, domain-based expertise, or stakeholder-based challenge.
- Partnership opportunities, knowledge transfer, pilot and collaborative studies, and convenings.
How to engage in MIT REAP Team Mentorship Initiative? Work with MIT REAP Director directly.
MIT Alumni Engagement
MIT REAP is working on strengthening the engagement between MIT Alumni and MIT REAP Teams. We have identified three basic options from this type of engagement:
- Broader networking event – an opportunity for MIT Alumni and MIT REAP Teams to connect, brainstorm, and engage in action-learning gatherings.
- Smaller private event – an opportunity for key Alumni to interact with MIT REAP Teams and for MIT REAP Teams with the aim to solve specific problems and to help the MIT REAP Team in strategic ways.
- Event related to faculty visit – an opportunity to take advantage of a faculty visit to get to know the MIT Alumni in a MIT REAP region.
How to engage with MIT (Sloan) Alumni? Work with MIT REAP Director directly. Connect with your MIT Alumni Club. Connect with your local MIT Sloan Alumni Club.
- Enables members to continue intra-cohort and inter-cohort exchange of information, and collaboration
- Rich online content with latest trends, research, experiences and other relevant news from primarily REAP Alumni and MIT
- Exclusively for MIT REAP Alumni
- Opportunity to continue to learn from new MIT faculty research and receive updates about MIT REAP faculty visits, MIT events, and MIT REAP alumni reunions
- Rich online content with latest trends, research, experiences and other relevant news from primarily MIT REAP Alumni and MIT
- Post questions, ideas, and press coverage of your team in implementing your MIT REAP strategy
- Exclusively for MIT REAP Alumni
Future Opportunities
- MIT REAP Visiting Scholar Fellow – an opportunity for university affiliates or regional leaders to engage with MIT as a full-time student to do research on innovation science and policy specific to their region
- MIT REAP International Faculty Fellowship – an opportunity for university faculty from MIT partner institutions to come to MIT for a semester of learning about MIT’s teaching approach and MIT’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation landscape.
How to engage in MIT REAP Team Mentorship Initiative? Work with MIT REAP Director directly.
For more information, please read MIT REAP Global Innovation Network (GIN) Overview.