In April 2010, The Government of the Russian Federation approved Regulation #219 "On State Support of Innovative Infrastructure Development in Federal Institutions of Higher Professional Education." The Programme of HSE Innovative Infrastructure Development has been chosen as one of 56 winning programmes of the 196 higher education institutions participating in the open competition of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The HSE has been ranked 12th by the number of points won, which is a very strong performance taking into account the social and economic profile of the University. The Programme of the HSE Innovative Infrastructure Development got a special mention in a speech by Sergei Mazurenko, the Russian Deputy Minister of Education and Science, as an example of one of the best higher education institution documents of its kind.