ARIA – Advanced Research + Invention Agency
webARIA is a UK government high-risk R&D funding agency with dedicated AI safety opportunity spaces, including 'Mathematics for Safe AI' and 'Trust Everything, Everywhere', plus an active 'Safeguarded AI' programme applying AI-enabled formal methods to cybersecurity — making it a significant institutional funder in the AI safety ecosystem.
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ARIA is a UK government R&D funding agency modeled on high-risk, high-reward research principles, empowering scientists to pursue breakthroughs across multiple domains. It maintains dedicated AI safety-relevant opportunity spaces including 'Mathematics for Safe AI' and 'Trust Everything, Everywhere', and runs an active 'Safeguarded AI' programme focused on AI-enabled formal verification for cybersecurity. It offers both structured programme funding and rolling seed grants up to £500k.
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- •ARIA is a UK government agency funding high-risk, high-reward research with two AI safety-focused opportunity spaces: 'Mathematics for Safe AI' and 'Trust Everything, Everywhere'.
- •The active 'Safeguarded AI' programme tests whether AI-enabled formal methods can make high-assurance cyber defence practical at scale, with Blue Team and Red Team tracks.
- •ARIA offers seed funding up to £500k for early-stage research across its opportunity spaces, with rolling and deadline-based calls.
- •ARIA is recruiting a third cohort of Programme Directors (applications opening August 2026), shaping future research directions including potentially robot locomotion.
- •The agency's model accepts high failure rates in exchange for transformative societal and economic returns from successful breakthroughs.
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Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of the possible
Scroll to get to know ARIA ARIA is a UK R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.
Society’s most important advances have stemmed from those willing to think differently about what might be possible.
The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) empowers scientists and engineers, from our Programme Directors to the teams we fund, with the resources and freedom to pursue breakthroughs at the edge of the possible.
Many will fail to meet their target, but their efforts will inspire the next generation. Those that do succeed will generate massive social and economic returns.
Discover more about ARIA The latest from ARIA
09 September 2026 Precision Mitochondria
Meet the Creators we're funding in this programme
Discover more 17 August 2026 Become an ARIA Programme Director
Learn more about the role and apply to be a Programme Director
Discover more 12 August 2026 Hypersensory Intelligence – Olfactory Perception
Explore our latest call and apply for funding
Discover more 06 August 2026 Ubiquitous Particle Profiling
Explore our latest programme thesis and share your thoughts
Discover more Become an ARIA Programme Director
Applications for our third cohort are now open – apply by 28 September for a May 2027 start.
Learn more and apply Opportunity spaces
ARIA's opportunity spaces are the frontiers where we believe transformational breakthroughs are possible. They're our strategic visions of the future: areas of unmet opportunity where we believe new capabilities will most benefit humanity and where ambitious research could fundamentally change what becomes possible.
Each opportunity space is highly interdisciplinary – spanning multiple disciplines and potential applications in new ways. Together, they form our framework for discovering and exploring new ideas – from guiding the development of our programmes all the way through to funding researchers to unlock these visions and build the future.
Discover our opportunity spaces below:
Nature-Inspired Computation
Resilient Climate and Ecosystems
Abundant Manufacturing
Adaptive Machines
Scalable Neural Interfaces
Programmable Physiology
Trust Everything, Everywhere
Nature-Inspired Computation
Programme: Scaling Compute
Programme: Olfactory Perception
Unsustainable energy requirements and limited datasets demand alternative scaling pathways for AI. Novel computing, learning and perception paradigms inspired by nature will enable radically greater efficiency and adaptability.
Discover more Open calls
Programme Funding
Hypersensory Intelligence – Olfactory Perception: TA1 Full proposals
This £65m programme seeks to build the foundations for general-purpose olfactory perception – matching or exceeding biological systems in programme challenges. We’re accepting proposals for Technical Area 1, in which up to six teams wi
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