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EC.S01 (U) / EC.S11 (G)

Work with organizational and institutional stakeholders and end-users to analyze challenges and develop solutions related to the war in Ukraine.

Who can participate?

This class is open to everyone. We will have in-person class meetings on MIT campus and a remote Zoom option.

There are two main ways to be involved:

You likely want to be involved as a Participant if

  • you are an undergraduate or graduate student (though this is not a requirement)
  • you have something like 15+ hours per week available for this class
  • participants will be primarily attached to a specific project team and may have any level of expertise
  • for MIT undergraduates, this class is offered as EC.S01, a 6-unit P/D/F course
  • for MIT graduate students, this class is offered as EC.S11, a 6-unit course with standard A-F grading

Participant registration here (this leads to a Google Form that you should fill out – MIT IAP registration formally opens on December 1st)

You likely want to be involved as a Mentor if

  • you have specific subject-matter expertise in one of our project tracks (see below)
  • you have limited time (<10 hours a week) available for this class
  • mentors’ contact information will be provided to teams to request help

Mentor registration here

Alternatively, if you want to just attend the lectures, please also fill out the registration so that we know you’ll be there, and so that you can get the Zoom link if you are attending remotely.


Challenge Tracks

Challenge problems from the following areas have been submitted by our external partners. Student teams will work directly with experts and user groups from Ukraine, the United States, and other locations.

1. Participatory Democracy

  • Bot detection on social media
  • Wiki-based baseline for content moderation
  • Early signal detection for disinformation monitoring
  • Disinformation narrative tracking across borders & contexts

2. Civil
Defense

  • Detection of aerial threats
    (Acoustic, RF localization & tracking)
  • Detection of explosive remnants of war
  • Mapping of risks & hazard from sparse environmental images

3. Societal
Resilience

  • Energy System Monitoring (Acoustics)
  • To be annouced
πŸ‘‰πŸ½ See the full list of projects at Challenge Problems page