Yes. Let me just talk a bit more about this German-Dalhousie program that has these Ph.D. students, because they come and they are funded by a CREATE grant, which is something that NSERC funds. It insists that the graduate students get placed in industry and get placed in foreign country laboratories. In this case, they're going into German laboratories, they're going into German industries, and the Germans are coming into our industries and to our laboratories, both university and government laboratories here in Halifax.
When they had their workshop, they did a “Dragons' Den”, at which they had to present ideas for what they could commercialize from their science. This was such a fascinating and powerful evening as they talked about how they had to work as a partnership, a German and a Canadian student, and present what might come out of their science as a commercializable entity.
So that is an objective of that program. It's all focused around ocean science and technology, and what technology is needed to promote ocean science and make it better.
They had wonderful ideas, and many of the spinoffs that have come from Dalhousie, like the one that invented the tags and receivers, and like Satlantic, are from scientists who need a tool to do their research.
The sooner we start these students, and if we start them together.... This is a brilliant program, where the funding came partly from Germany, partly from Canada, and it was hooked together. They're feeding back and forth, and of course Germany is a very strong nation in terms of commercialization and manufacturing. This should provide a very powerful set of students coming out of this over six years.
Meanwhile, would you send regards to my good friend Deborah?