ARIA – Advanced Research + Invention Agency
webARIA is the UK's high-risk, high-reward R&D funding agency with direct AI safety relevance through its 'Safeguarded AI' programme, which funds AI-enabled formal verification for cybersecurity, and its 'Trust Everything, Everywhere' opportunity space focused on trustworthy systems.
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ARIA is a UK government R&D funding agency modeled on DARPA-style high-risk, high-reward research principles. It runs the 'Safeguarded AI' programme (£20m) focused on AI-enabled formal verification for high-assurance cybersecurity, and maintains a 'Trust Everything, Everywhere' strategic opportunity space. It offers structured programme funding and rolling seed grants, with open calls for researchers and programme directors.
Key Points
- •ARIA's 'Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity' programme funds AI-enabled formal methods to make high-assurance cyber defence practical at scale (£20m, rolling applications).
- •The 'Trust Everything, Everywhere' opportunity space is ARIA's strategic vision for trustworthy systems, directly relevant to AI safety and assurance.
- •ARIA funds Blue Teams to build security-critical software with machine-checked proofs, validated through red-team exercises.
- •ARIA offers rolling seed grants and structured programme funding; applications for Programme Director cohort 3 are open.
- •ARIA's model empowers scientists with resources and freedom to pursue transformational breakthroughs across highly interdisciplinary domains.
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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.
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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
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Nature-Inspired Computation
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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.
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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 will be given up to
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