Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
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1,058 disclosures
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Request Received: 9 June 2020
which grants in your funding organization fit the following criteria:
Grant type: individual
Science area: multidisciplinary
Budget: Total budget ideally substantial enough for a minimum of 25 individual grants - Individual grants > €100,000
Ideally grants offered in the period 2005-present
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 10 June 2020
Competition: Business-led innovation in response to global disruption round 2 (de minimis).
Written confirmation of the number of black assessors that were part of the assessment panel that was evaluating grant applications for this competition.
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 29 March 2021
RE: Innovate UK Smart Grants: November 2020 (Deadline 20 January 2021). (Applicants were notified of their outcomes on 26 March 2021).
I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below information on the above funding competition for both:
a) Stream 1 projects (6-18 months duration, eligible project costs between £25-£500k), and;
b) Stream 2 projects (19-36 months duration, total eligible project costs between £25K-£2M).
The information I would like to request is as follows:
1. The total number of applications submitted and the number of those that were assessed (i.e. deemed eligible for funding);
2. The overall number of applications awarded funding and a breakdown of how many of these were first-time applications and how many were resubmissions;
3. The total number of applications within each innovation area and the number of those that were successful in each area;
4. The average grant request and project size of the applications successfully awarded funding;
5. The average score of successful applications;
6. The percentages of successful applications that were Industrial Research and Experimental Development;
7. The number of successful Industrial Research and Experimental Development projects that were (i) single applicant/partner, (ii) 2 partners, (iii) 3+ partner;
8. The total funding allocated in this competition round.
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 25 May 2020
1. Please answer the following questions:
a. What was the lowest winning score for the grant?
b. What was the highest winning score?
c. How many applications had winning scores?
d. How many applications scored higher than 79.3%?
e. What was the anticipated lowest winning score for the grant prior to 01 May 2020?
f. Did (1) (e) change after 01 May 2020? If yes, how?
i. How many winners filed their application after the official submission deadline?
j. How many winners amended their filing after the official submission deadline?
k. How many winners had more than 5 full time employees?
l. How many winners committed additional own funds towards the project?
m. What was the average winning score for all UK Innovate grants in 2019, 2018, 2017?
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 31 May 2020
1. How many "Director, Human Resources" does UKRI have?
2. What is the UKRI grade designation of the STFC "Director, Human Resources"?
3. Is there a record of a job evaluation assessment for the STFC "Director, Human Resources"?If, so what was this a JESPIJEGSIHAY assessment?
4. Is the "Director, Human Resources" classified as a UKRI senior role that is subject to the Governments public sector pay policy for Senior Managers (that is, handled in line with the Senior Civil Service)?
5. For the position of "Director, Human Resources", when was the job advertised on Civil Service Jobs website?
6. If the job was not advertised on Civil Service Jobs website, was this a non-competitive appointment, where the individual was appointed without open competition? [please note that this question is not about the current incumbent, but is an enquiry about the UKRI recruitment practice for resourcing position like that of STFC "Director, Human Resources'.
7. Is the position of STFC "Head of HR" the same as STFC "Director, Human Resources? [note: that this job title is mentioned on your website as part of current incumbent's biography].If it is different, please advise what the differences are.
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 27 March 2021
Please could you provide the following information in regard to the two most recent Smart Grant competitions with the following details [August 2020 and November 2020 competitions]
1. Total number of applications
2. Number of assessed applications (not disregarded due to being deemed out of scope etc)
3. Number of applications funded
4. Number of applications funded per 'innovation area'
5. Average funding amount per project
6. Smallest and largest amount of funding per project
7. Average score
8. Success threshold
9. Decision-making process based on portfolio (i.e. why higher scoring projects might not get funded and lower scoring project get funded).
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 18 May 2020
I ask for transparency and for Innovate UK to reveal the number of black women that even received funding from your recent competitions in comparison to their counterparts.
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 31 May 2020
How much has been donated/sponsored by Renishaw PLC on medical research?
Published: 30 June 2021
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Request Received: 23 June 2020
I'm looking for data on the number of research projects that have had been terminated early (i.e. stopped before
they were scheduled to finish) in the last 5 years and 10 years.
Please also let me know how many projects there were funded during this period total so that there is some context.For example, 10 projects funded and 1 terminated early (or 10% terminated early) between XXXX-XXXX yrs.
The information was requested from the Economic and Social Research Council.
Published: 29 June 2021
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Request Received: 8 July 2020
1. How many Scottish based companies have been awarded Innovate UK grants in the last three years? And what % of the total winners is Scottish based?
2. What is the total monetary value of grants awarded to Scottish based companies in the last three years? And what is this % of the total UK grants?
Published: 29 June 2021