Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau 
“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.
Dr Elena Nechita
Associate Professor
Vestel Electronics 
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
Consumer Electronics(TFT TV, STB...), IT products, Smart Home products.- HW
- SW
- Test and verification
- Implementation
Dr Metin Nil
R&D ManagerVirgen del Rocio University Hospital, Andalusian Health Service 
Mr Carlos Luis Parra
Head of Technological Innovation
Vistek ISRA Vision A.S.
Vistek was founded in 2006 as a spinoff from Sabancı University – Turkey. In December 2009, a German company - ISRA Vision, which is number 1 in Europe and number 3 in the world in machine vision, became a partner to Vistek and the name became Vistek ISRA Vision. We have two application groups: 1. Industrial applications, 2. Social applications.
Industrial applications business unit develops solutions for quality inspection, assembly automation, smart production decisions for productivity increase. In essence, Vistek delivers enhanced “smart” camera based automation systems that can quickly and effectively scan various processes, and then output statistical analysis. Over the last five years, Vistek has offered sophisticated automating systems across a broad range of industries, including automotive, glass bottle / glassware production, white goods, LPG, etc. However, we are recently concentrating more on glass and food industries. Some of the applications we have developed include: glassware inspection, fig sorting (separating figs with aflatoxin), olive sorting, glass cullet sorting, 3D measurements of parts, etc.
Social applications are more in the R&D phase. We develop solutions for gender recognition, activity monitoring (especially for patients with dementia), to support caretakers and medics.
