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The University of Leeds is acclaimed world-wide for the quality of its teaching and research, and continues to be ranked within the top 100 universities in the QS world rankings.  Leeds is one of the largest universities in the UK with an annual income of €649m and over 33,000 students (over 6870 from overseas) and approximately 7,540 staff of 99 different nationalities, attached to 560 different undergraduate and 300 postgraduate degree programmes.  In 2010/11 its annual research income exceeded €157 m of which 7.9% was derived from EU awards. The University of Leeds is currently successfully co-ordinating 82 FP7 projects and is a partner in a further 116 FP7 projects.  A further 30 FP7 grants are under negotiation; 10 of which are co-ordinated by Leeds.  It has hosted/is currently hosting 43 Marie Curie Individual Fellowships and Integration Grants and is currently co-ordinating 8 FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training networks and is a partner in a further 13.  Leeds total income from FP7 is in excess of €84m with a further €16.5m under negotiation. Under FP6 Leeds was involved in over 200 funded projects that were awarded research income of over €60m.  The University of Leeds therefore has a very successful track record of managing both individual fellowships and large international projects and of hosting visiting researchers of all career stages for both training and knowledge transfer purposes.

“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău is a medium sized public university, located in Bacău, the capital of Bacău County, in the North-East region of Romania. Since 1961, the university has progressively developed and carried on a tradition in the fields of education and research. With over 6,000 students and about 250 academic staff, the University is now structured as follows: five faculties (Engineering, Letters, Sciences, Economic Sciences, and Faculty of Movement, Sports and Health Sciences), five departments (Teacher Training, Professional Counselling, Technological Transfer, Innovation and Artistic Creation, Distance Learning, and Management), Office of International Relations and Community Programmes.

“Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău has been certified in the Quality Management System for bachelor, master, and doctoral education, for scientific research, technological transfer and counselling since 2007. Since December 2010, the Integrated Management System was certified as follows:  SR EN ISO 9001:2008, SR EN ISO 14001:2005, SR OH SAS 18001:2008 and SA 8000.

The VESTEL group of companies engage in research and product development, manufacturing, sales and marketing in the consumer electronics, white goods and digital product segments with an expertise in embedded systems design,implementation, testing, integration and manufacturing on consumer electronics, information & communication technologies, digital broadcast receiving technologies, electronic media and networking. VESTEL includes a variety of products to its customers including but not limited to LCD, PVR, IPTV, Hotel TV, DVD Players/Recorders, PVR box, DVB-T and DVB-S set-top boxes, wireless products, home network systems, notebook PCs and household appliances.

VESTEL Electronics is the flag ship of the group of companies and the largest consumer electronics ODM/OEM company in Europe by employing 6000 people and total revenues of € 2.67 billion. One of the biggest forces powering VESTEL’s rapid advance towards becoming a global giant through the technologies that it develops its R&D activities are carried out with approx. 500 experts in 10 national and international research and development centers. The primary focus of R&D activities is related to platform digitalization, high-definition, mobility and connectivity.

VESTEL’s research fields cover a number of Strategic  research Agenda items from Eurepean Technology Platforms (ICT, Networked Media and Consumer Electronics).

VESTEL collaborates to investigate new technologies and new consumer trends in collaborations with universities and research institutions, transforming this research into modules, systems, and products that qualify as internationally licensable and patentable intellectual property rights.

For information about Vestel, please visit www.vestel.com

AREAS OF R&D COOPERATION 

• HW
• SW
• Test and verification
• Implementation