ARIA – Advanced Research + Invention Agency
webARIA is the UK government's high-risk R&D funding agency modeled on ARPA, with dedicated AI safety programmes ('Mathematics for Safe AI' and 'Trust Everything, Everywhere'), making it a key institutional actor in publicly-funded AI safety research in the UK.
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ARIA is a UK government R&D funding agency designed to empower scientists and engineers to pursue high-risk, high-reward breakthroughs. It operates across multiple 'opportunity spaces', including two dedicated to AI safety: 'Mathematics for Safe AI' and 'Trust Everything, Everywhere'. It funds both exploratory seed research and structured programmes with open calls for proposals.
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- •ARIA is a UK ARPA-style agency giving Programme Directors significant autonomy to pursue high-risk, potentially transformative research.
- •Dedicated AI safety opportunity spaces include 'Mathematics for Safe AI' and 'Trust Everything, Everywhere'.
- •Also funds neurotechnology ('Scalable Neural Interfaces') and broader science areas like climate, robotics, and synthetic biology.
- •Operates open calls for proposals including a £100m Activation Partners call and rolling opportunity seed funding.
- •Represents a significant government-backed institutional commitment to AI safety research in the UK.
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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
20 May 2026 Safeguarded AI
Explore our updated programme thesis and apply for funding
Discover more 23 April 2026 Hypersensory Intelligence: Olfactory Perception
Read our latest programme thesis and share your thoughts
Discover more 20 April 2026 Enduring Atmospheric Platforms
Find out what's happening in the programme
Discover more Join our third cohort of Programme Directors
Applications for our third cohort of Programme Directors will open in August 2026 for a May 2027 start date. Learn more about what we're looking for and register your interest so you can be the first to hear updates on the application process.
Find out more Opportunity spaces
Defined by our Programme Directors, ARIA opportunity spaces are highly consequential for society; under-explored relative to their potential impact; and ripe for new talent, perspectives, or resources to change what’s possible. Each opportunity space represents fertile ground we'll harvest for technical breakthroughs through programme and seed funding.
Discover our opportunity spaces below:
Scoping Our Planet
Future Proofing Our Climate and Weather
Programmable Plants
Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
Manufacturing Abundance
Smarter Robot Bodies
Extending Our Perception
Nature Computes Better
Mathematics for Safe AI
Trust Everything, Everywhere
Collective Flourishing (paused)
Scalable Neural Interfaces
Bioenergetic Engineering
Sculpting Innate Immunity
Scoping Our Planet
Programme: Enduring Atmospheric Platforms
Programme: Forecasting Tipping Points
Understanding the Earth system is limited by serious measurement gaps that lead to significant uncertainties in predictions. What if we could cultivate frontier technologies, from measurement platforms to AI models, to generate actionable knowledge that serves society in diverse and impossible ways?
Discover more Open calls
Programme Funding
Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity
We seek to test and accelerate the hypothesis that AI-enabled formal methods can make high-assurance cyber defence practical at scale. This call is structured as two tracks: Track 1 (Blue Teams) for building and verifying security-critical components, and Track 2 (Red Team) fo
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