Dates:
Competition closes: 27th August 2024, 12:00 (BST)
Shortlisting: 10th September 2024 (30 minute virtual meeting)
Applicants notified: 18th September 2024
Project start date & duration: Flexible, up to three years in duration.
Scope
ARIA invites ideas which engage with their core beliefs, to reap the benefits of intelligent machines.
- Boost longevity and prosperity via robots freeing humanity from physical labour
- Overcoming the critical obstacle of robot bodies holding back advanced robot brains
- Build robots that approach or exceed the capabilities of living bodies
- Ideas that could change the conversation about what is possible of valuable
Out-of-scope
- Ideas which are better suited for the AIRA Robot Dexterity programme
- Projects which are likely to happen without ARIA support
- Commercial/close-to-commercial stage projects.
Eligibility
- No minimum project length. Maximum length of three years.
- Typically require the majority of work (>50% project costs and time) to be conducted in the UK.
- Applicant may be from anywhere in the R&D ecosystem, including individuals, universities, research organisations, small, medium, and large companies, charities, and public research organisations.
- Basic research (TRLs 1-3) – funding via a Basic Grant Agreement.
- More mature R&D (TRLs 3-6) – funding via a Research Agreement
- If you are not an enterprise (and at TRLs 1-6), funding via either a Standard Grant Agreement or Individual Grant Agreement.
Funding Rates
- ARIA provides 100% of the funding, no matched funding required.
- Between £10k and £500k, inclusive of VAT (where application) and all associated costs.
Application Structure
- Part One: Core application – five questions about you and your idea. This is the basis for initial shortlisting, so it’s crucial to stand out at this stage.
- Part Two: Timeline, budget, and administrat3ive questions. PNO’s dedicated compliance team can help ensure you are eligible and that your proposal is well structured and evidenced.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
