Sussex x ARIA: A look inside how ARIA finds and funds ambitious people
25 November 2025 11:00 until 13:30
University of Sussex Campus - Exact location will be made available to registered attendees.
Speaker: ARIA team and previous Sussex successful applicants.
Part of the series: Funder Full Briefing
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The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) is a UK R&D funding agency that empowers scientists and engineers to pursue breakthroughs at the edge of the possible.
In this event ARIA will share how they shape the spaces they are exploring, how they fund R&D, and how they work with the research community across the UK and world.
Agenda
- 11:00 – 11:10 | Welcome & Introduction
- 11:10 – 12:30 | Open Forum
- Introductions to ARIA
- How Sussex University can engage with ARIA
- Lessons learned from previous funding rounds
- 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch
We will be joined by the ARIA team — including members from their Procurement & Product team and one of ARIA’s Programme Directors.
Registration required This is an in-person event and spaces are limited. Register early if you are hoping to attend.
Register now to attend ARIA event - 25 November 2025
Who’s this for?
This event is for anyone wishing to learn more about how ARIA works and funds R&D from PhD students and post-docs to group leaders, founders and research managers.
About ARIA
Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) was created by an Act of Parliament, and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, and funds breakthrough R&D in underexplored areas to catalyse new paths to prosperity for the UK and the world. Their aim is to empower scientists and engineers to pursue research that is too speculative, too hard, or too interdisciplinary to pursue elsewhere. ARIA’s programmes are shaped and led by their Programme Directors, scientific and technical leaders with deep expertise and a focused, creative vision for how technology can enable a better future.
Within ARIA opportunity spaces, they back high-potential research that is under-explored, but if it works, could deliver major societal and economic impact. From individuals to startups, industry to academia – ARIA support the people and ideas with the ambition to shape the future.
ARIA will fund 100% of eligible costs including Full Economic Costs (FEC)
They are an innovative funder and are keen to explore structures not typical in academic research, such as supporting early career researchers as project leads or funding large (>80%) proportions of senior academics’ time so that they can focus fully on their ARIA project. They also fund HEIs at 100% FEC making them a standout funder in the funding landscape.
If you have any queries about the event, please don't hesitate to email resdevadmin@sussex.ac.uk
Clare Neil, Lucy Bell and the Research Development and Initiatives Team