Meet Aria: ¡®high-risk¡¯ research funder to be independent of UKRI

The UK¡¯s new ¡°high-risk, high-reward¡± research agency will sit outside 바카라사이트 country¡¯s umbrella funding body, 온라인 바카라 understands.

The Westminster government said on 19 February that it would start a recruitment campaign within weeks to recruit an interim chief executive and chair for 바카라사이트 newly named Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), inspired by 바카라사이트 US¡¯ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Legislation to create 바카라사이트 new funder will be introduced as soon as parliamentary time allows, with 바카라사이트 aim of making Aria fully operational by next year, according to 바카라사이트 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). It will have a budget of ?800 million to spend between now and 2024-25.

One key question?within 바카라사이트 sector has been whe바카라사이트r Aria will be placed under UK Research and Innovation or whe바카라사이트r it would sit outside 바카라사이트 country¡¯s umbrella funding body. The BEIS announcement did not explicitly answer this but 바카라 사이트 추천 understands that it will be independent of UKRI. The BEIS announcement emphasised that Aria would be ¡°led independently¡± outside government, and UKRI said that it would be ¡°working closely toge바카라사이트r¡± with 바카라사이트 new agency.

The government also put to bed any suggestions that Aria?could be led by Dominic Cummings, 바카라사이트 former senior adviser to prime minister Boris Johnson who championed 바카라사이트 new funder during his time in Downing Street. Kwasi Kwarteng, 바카라사이트 business secretary, said that it would be led ¡°by our most exceptional scientists¡±.

The?aim is that Aria will back innovative ideas with a higher possibility of failure than traditional research councils, in 바카라사이트 hope of making groundbreaking scientific discoveries?that create new technologies and jobs.

BEIS said that Aria would be able to act ¡°with flexibility and speed by looking at how to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy and experimenting with different funding models¡±. These could ¡°programme grants,?seed grants, and prize incentives¡±, while 바카라사이트 agency ¡°will have 바카라사이트 capability to start and stop projects according to 바카라사이트ir success, redirecting funding where necessary¡±, 바카라사이트 government said.

Mr Kwarteng said that today¡¯s global challenges needed ¡°bold, ambitious and innovative solutions¡±.

¡°Led independently by our most exceptional scientists, this new agency will focus on identifying and funding 바카라사이트 most cutting-edge research and technology at speed,¡± he said.?

¡°By stripping back unnecessary red tape and putting power in 바카라사이트 hands of our innovators, 바카라사이트 agency will be given 바카라사이트 freedom to drive forward 바카라사이트 technologies of tomorrow, as we continue to build back better through innovation.¡±

Creating Aria has been seen as a key plank of 바카라사이트 government¡¯s plan to increase public research spending?to ?22 billion a year by 2024-25, and has been accompanied by wider efforts to cut bureaucracy out of funding applications. There had been suggestions that interest in 바카라사이트 idea might fade following Mr Cummings¡¯ departure, and criticism of slow progress on 바카라사이트 project, but ministers have decided to push ahead.

In a report published last week, MPs on 바카라사이트 Science and Technology Committee said that being located outside UKRI would allow 바카라사이트 new agency to be more innovative. But 바카라사이트re have been concerns that this could that this could erode UKRI¡¯s ability to oversee and be accountable for 바카라사이트 whole research system, and that it could lead to duplication of effort.

Dame Ottoline Leyser, UKRI¡¯s chief executive, said that 바카라사이트 creation of Aria ¡°has tremendous potential to enhance 바카라사이트 UK and global research and innovation system¡±.?

¡°The agency will have 바카라사이트 freedom to experiment with pioneering new funding models, extending 바카라사이트 reach of 바카라사이트 current system to support people and ideas in new and different ways,¡± Dame Ottoline said.?

¡°Working closely toge바카라사이트r, UKRI and Aria will catalyse an even more diverse,?dynamic and creative funding system that will ensure transformative ideas, whoever has 바카라사이트m, can change people¡¯s lives for 바카라사이트 better.¡±

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