ODA Adjustment Funding

Additional ODA funding of £19.7 million is being made available across the 46 Research Organisations who were most impacted by last year’s review of ODA funding. This additional ODA money is aimed at partially off-setting some of the reductions across UK Research and Innovation’s GCRF and Newton portfolio. The reallocation of this additional funding follows end of Financial Year analyses by UKRI and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) of their ODA budgets. A number of factors and pieces of information have enabled this additional ODA money for 2021-22 to be released including Covid disruption to project timescales, general project slippage and the releasing of contingency budgets. The Research Organisations will receive between £100K and £1.35M. Ulster's award is £250k under award reference EP/X525261/1