ICTP's Strategic Plan for the next five years puts emphasis on setting up regional centres of excellence around the globe. The idea is to bring ICTP's unique blend of high-quality physics and mathematics education and high-level science meetings closer to scientists everywhere. ICTP has opened the following partner institutes:
- The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, ICTP SAIFR, is a regional centre for theoretical physics created in collaboration with the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP) and the Sao Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP).
- The East African Institute of Fundamental Research (EAIFR) is based at the University of Rwanda's Kigali campus.
- The ICTP-Asia Pacific was created in collaboration with the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- A partner institute is planned for Mexico: the Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH).
