What is MIT’s involvement with Masdar City?
The Masdar Institute, in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Science and Technology (MIT), will be the first building completed in August 2009. The Masdar Institute is an independent, not-for-profit, research-driven, graduate level institute. It offers Masters and PhD programs in science and engineering disciplines, with a focus on alternative energy and sustainable technologies. Graduates will receive a degree from the Masdar Institute and a certificate from MIT. The faculty of the Masdar Institute is already doing research at MIT and will be soon publishing research papers. They are currently researching work in systems management, photovoltaic materials technologies and sustainability policy. Also, Masdar has a research network which is a collaborative framework with various universities. In parallel, we have started field research in the City itself with different research institutes. The Fraunhofer Institute for example is doing work on solar cooling and for Salzburg A
