I can add something, if you wish.
We're definitely developing knowledge at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, but our mandate is also to ensure that that knowledge is applied. We're now offering new fellowships to give researchers the opportunity to develop techniques for more effectively transferring knowledge to the public and to practitioners and decision-makers. Every target is different, and there are different cultures and policies. We're also trying to study the transfer process. The transfer of knowledge application is supposedly a science. That's not my field, but we're studying that.
Last year, for example, we established a program for a network on Alzheimer's disease and dementias. In that network, we require that researchers form a network with non-researchers, that is with individuals who work at the Alzheimer Society of Canada, to ensure that the knowledge we already have is applied to patients by caregivers and physicians. At the same time, practitioners and decision-makers have to be taught to go get the knowledge that will help them make decisions.
Practitioners also have to be educated so that they get into the habit of looking for knowledge. That works both ways. In addition, this network must give young researchers skills so that they can work with non-researchers. Traditionally, researchers have worked in their labs, whereas practitioners and politicians have worked in their offices. While they are young, we want them to be able to start acquiring work experience with individuals who practise a profession outside their field and discipline. That's an example.
That will start in March and will last five years. It's a pilot project. This is the first time the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has done this on this scale.