These will range from supporting a forum for contact and exchange between the researchers, providing possibilities for exploring collaborations and job opportunities, to the organisation of joint events and the involvement of the fellows in outreach activities as ambassadors for Marie Skłodowska- Curie actions and for the European Research Area.

The centres will serve as a basis for cutting-edge research and new knowledge generation, and a training base for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, as well as recruiting and retaining the best scientists working on Alzheimer's disease in Canada.

Developing alternative forms of energy depends first and foremost on research into the development of new technologies and now is our opportunity, now that the large companies which trade in oil are amassing a fortune in excessive profits made by taking advantage of rises in stock exchange prices, now that, as we have all realised, the framework programme for research and development is inadequate with the resources at its disposal; this is our opportunity to promote the idea of imposing a clean energy tax on the oil industry, which can be used to finance the development of alternative forms of energy.

27. Considers that work undertaken in universities in other countries and as a member of research teams should be recognised as beneficial for the purposes of research work and that research entails a capacity to innovate; considers therefore that measures should be taken to encourage exchanges of researchers and scholars who are developing new projects, and the inclusion in research teams of trained persons of other nationalities;

Furthermore, the fifth research plan only includes one person per project, although it is impossible to carry out a far-reaching project with grant holders alone.

In the past seven years, we have trained ten interns and four post-doctoral fellows and have hired five of them for positions in Thompson, The Pas and Dauphin.