One of Việt Nam's most important training centres, the Hồ Chí Minh National Institute of Political Studies was established in 1962. It offers training courses for officials from central agencies and organisations, journalists, publishers and artists aimed at improving their awareness in the origin, content, value and role of Hồ Chí Minh Thought, with a view to ensuring its application in ideological and cultural work and boosting the movement to raise revolutionary morality according to the example of Uncle Hồ. The Institute has a network of four sub-institutes and 61 political schools in provinces and cities across the country. Over the past five years the Institute has published the complete works of President Hồ Chí Minh - including 1,700 essays and speeches - both in print and electronically and has carried out 10 major research projects on the late President's beliefs.