 As part of the Project 5-100, the university created international research centers to carry out joint research between scientists at ITMO and their peers at foreign research and education centers.By 2014 the university had established 49 such entities with co-heads from USA, UK, Germany, Australia, China, etc.In order to strengthen governmental support for the development of science and innovations in higher education and to improve the quality of higher education, on April 9, 2010, the Government of the Russian Federation instituted monetary grants that are made available on a competitive basis to support of scientific research projects implemented by the world's leading scientists at Russian institutions of higher learning.