Can we programme vegetation to take away extra CO2, enhance meals safety, and ship medicines to these in want? Alternative seeds assist bold analysis aligned to the ARIA alternative areas. For the ARIA Programmable Vegetation name, we’re trying to problem assumptions, open up new analysis paths, and supply steps in the direction of new capabilities with as much as £500k per mission.

What’s in scope?

+ Concepts that sit inside the ARIA Programmable Vegetation alternative area. By this, we imply your proposal ought to present how your thought both aligns with or challenges the assumptions of the Abstract, Beliefs, or Observations within the alternative area;

+ Each land vegetation and aquatic vegetation (incl. inexperienced algae);

+ Microorganisms influencing vegetation, supplied that they’re getting used to change a facet of a plant’s type or perform;

+ Concepts that might change the dialog about what’s attainable or worthwhile;

+ Concepts that vary from early-stage, curiosity-driven analysis by way of to pre-commercial science and expertise.

What’s out of scope?

+ Concepts which are inside scope of the Artificial Vegetation programme (purposes for this have now closed);

+ Cyanobacteria;

+ Concepts which are undifferentiated or are prone to occur with out ARIA’s assist;

+ Business or close-to-commercial stage merchandise.

Who’re we trying to fund?

We welcome purposes from the complete R&D ecosystem. We’re eager to listen to from early profession entrepreneurs and researchers, and people from a broad vary of sectors and backgrounds, together with public sector analysis organisations and charities. We care extra about your thought and intrinsic motivations than we do about your CV.

What funds and timeline can you plan?

We offer funding from £10k as much as £500k per mission, inclusive of VAT (the place relevant) and all related prices (each direct and oblique).

There is no such thing as a minimal size for a proposed mission however the most size is three years.

Apply for funding

Deadline: 9 April 2025 [13:00 GMT]. You could find full details about the decision and apply on the ARIA web site.
You could find extra open funding calls in our Funding Finder.