Each year several OPCW staff will join with the IFS secretariat meeting to agree on final project selection for co-funding by OPCW. The support from OPCW can be for individual as well as collaborative research and will also support IFS workshops relevant to the peaceful application of chemistry in developing countries. The IFS director said "the funding relationship with OPCW began in September of 2001, the new agreement, signed yesterday, expands the scope of the original agreement and augers well for a long and constructive engagement between the two organisations".