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Forecasting Tipping Points
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Accelerated Adaptation
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ARIA's Accelerated Adaptation programme funds research and technology development for climate adaptation, supporting creators working on solutions to help ecosystems and communities respond to climate impacts. Eligible applicants include research institutions, startups, and other innovation-focused organizations across the UK and potentially internationally.
Bioenergetic Engineering
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ARIA's Bioenergetic Engineering programme funds research and development of tools to engineer biological energy systems, with applications spanning neurodegenerative disease treatment, environmental remediation, and climate resilience. The call targets researchers and innovators developing novel approaches to control and harness cellular and organismal energy pathways.
Collective Flourishing
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ARIA's Collective Flourishing programme funds research and innovation in systems that combine human-centered design, advanced modelling, and foresight tools to help societies navigate volatility and make better collective decisions. The grant targets researchers, technologists, and interdisciplinary teams developing new frameworks for understanding complex global challenges.
Scaling Compute
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This programme funds research into alternative computing paradigms inspired by nature to reduce AI's energy consumption and data requirements, addressing sustainability challenges in artificial intelligence. It targets researchers and institutions developing novel computing and learning approaches that move beyond conventional scaling methods.
Scoping Our Planet
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ARIA's Scoping Our Planet programme funds frontier technologies—measurement platforms, sensors, and AI models—to close critical Earth-system data gaps and improve climate and environmental predictions. It targets researchers, technologists, and innovators developing novel measurement and analytical capabilities to generate actionable knowledge for climate adaptation and environmental management.
Resilient Climate and Ecosystems
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ARIA's Resilient Climate and Ecosystems programme funds research and tool development to understand and manage coupled climate and living systems, with the goal of securing ecosystem resilience and planetary health. The call targets researchers and innovators working on climate adaptation, ecosystem management, and food/health/security outcomes.
Abundant Manufacturing
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ARIA's Abundant Manufacturing programme funds research and innovation to transform food and material production systems toward sustainability, speed, precision, and supply-chain resilience in the face of climate volatility. The grant targets technologies and approaches that decouple resource-intensive production from environmental impact while building adaptive capacity.
Nature-Inspired Computation
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This grant funds research and development of nature-inspired computing paradigms (neuromorphic, bio-inspired algorithms, etc.) to achieve radical improvements in AI energy efficiency and performance with limited data. It targets researchers and innovators developing alternative computational approaches that move beyond traditional scaling methods.
Programmable Plants
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ARIA's Programmable Plants programme funds research and innovation to engineer plants that address food insecurity, climate change, and environmental degradation. The grant targets researchers and innovators developing biological solutions to global sustainability challenges through plant science and synthetic biology.
Extending Our Perception
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ARIA is funding research to develop Hypersensory Intelligence—AI systems integrated with novel sensors to perceive reality in new ways and unlock breakthroughs across disciplines. The grant targets researchers and innovators building next-generation AI perception capabilities.
Future Proofing Our Climate and Weather
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ARIA is funding research to develop tools and strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation in response to abrupt climate system changes. The grant supports foundational research to expand adaptation options and inform crisis decision-making.
Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
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ARIA's Engineering Ecosystem Resilience programme funds advanced monitoring and intervention technologies to halt biodiversity loss and prevent ecological collapse. It targets researchers, innovators, and organisations developing solutions that combine ecological science with engineering to restore ecosystem function and support human-nature coexistence.
Manufacturing Abundance
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This grant funds research and development into advanced materials and molecular assembly technologies that enable sustainable solutions and circular abundance across industries. It targets innovators working on breakthroughs in material science that can address contemporary sustainability and resource challenges.