Aria and science department ties based on ‘partnership and trust’

Framework agreement sets out funder’s relationship to parent department and UK Research and Innovation

The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency will have a relationship built on “partnership and trust” with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, according to a new framework agreement for the £800 million funder.

The agreement, published on 17 February, sets out the broad framework within which the funder for “high-risk, high-payoff” research will operate, and its relationship with its new parent department, which was created earlier this month following a split from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.