Part of ARIA’s Resilient Climate and Ecosystems space
Engineering Ecosystem Resilience
Living organisms underpin our food, climate stability, and materials – ecological collapse threatens the foundations of civilisation. By pairing advanced monitoring with resilience-boosting interventions, we could halt biodiversity loss and enable people and nature to thrive.
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In the space
What ARIA has funded, and what is being explored
In the order they began: short discovery projects and standalone seeds explored the space first; the programme, the FRO, and the training cohort build on what they revealed.
- Exploratory research Discovery projects 22 projects Short, exploratory projects that guided our thinking across the Engineering Ecosystem Resilience space.
- Seed funding Opportunity seeds 14 seeds Ambitious research of up to £500k each, across research teams, universities, and start-ups.
- Programme Accelerated Adaptation up to £54m Exploring pathways to accelerate the adaptation of wild species to prevent biodiversity loss.
- Focused Research Organization Echo Labs £7m Building the scientific infrastructure to measure, model, and forecast ecosystem condition.
- Training Mast-EER 20 students A Masters by Research at the University of Exeter developing interdisciplinary ecological scientists.
- Concept Predicting Evolution Not yet funded A possible new ARIA programme, distinct from Accelerated Adaptation, to turn evolutionary biology into a predictive tool. Feedback welcome.
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