The average size of our funding currently for this year is about $700,000 for a project that will last between three and five years. That's the average. What are the lower and the higher ends? The lower end might be a grant of $5,000 or $10,000. They are relatively small in number. Often, they support participation by a researcher in a group meeting and things like this.
At the higher end, we have significant grants. Probably the largest that we currently have is for $15 million allocated to a consortium of five institutions working on the adaptation to climate change in Africa or Asia. There are four of those consortia. It's a carbon copy of a model that has been used in Canada and that we have adapted to developing regions of the world. Five institutions are brought together to absorb this money to do programming in a large territory with a number of institutions. These institutions would do a full segment of operations, from providing support to conduct the research, to providing grants to students to complete a master's or a Ph.D., to developing policy work in order to take the research results to influence policy, and have a lasting change in the life and livelihood of people.