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FOI2022/00005: May 2021 SMART Competition

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Case reference FOI2022/00005

Published 1 March 2022

Request

Request Received: 6 January 2022

If the information is available and you are able to share it could you please answer the following requests: For the SMART MAY 2021 competition, for both the <18 month (<£500k) and >18 month streams:

1. The number of applications

2. The number of successful applications

3. The success rate

4. The minimum successful score

5. The maximum successful score

6. Maximum score of failed applications

7. Average grant fund value per project

8. Total funds allocated

9. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 71-75, 76-80, 81-85, 86+)

10. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand

I would also like to request the number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score, please

Response

Response Sent: 20 January 2022

Under Section 21 of the FOIA, information already reasonably accessible, the information you have requested is already available in the public domain:

• FOI2021/00479: SMART May 2021 Competition

UKRI actively publish information on the FOI requests that are received. A copy of the request and response sent by UKRI is available on UKRI's FOI disclosure log which contains all FOI requests from April 2018 to November 2021. This includes a number of requests relating to the IUK Smart Grant competitions covering a wide range of information.

Section 21 is an absolute exemption which means that there is no requirement to conduct a public interest test.

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