Ministry of Education and Science of Russia

Carrying out functions on the development and implementation of state policy and legal regulation in the field of higher education and related additional professional education, scientific, scientific, technical and innovative activity, nanotechnology, development of federal centers of science and high technologies, state scientific centers and science cities, intellectual property (with the exception of legal regulation of issues related to control, supervision and provision of state servants in the field of legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, programs for electronic computers, databases and topologies of integrated circuits, including those included in the unified technology, trademarks, service marks, appellations of origin), in social support and social protection of students, youth policy, as well as the functions of providing public services and managing state property in the field of higher education and the corresponding additional professional education, scientific, scientific, technical and innovative activities, including the activities of federal centers of science and high technologies, state scientific centers, unique scientific stands and installations, federal centers for collective use, leading scientific schools, a new generation of national research computer network and information support scientific, scientific, technical and innovative activities.