Limited Liability Company
Samsung Moscow Research Center

12, Dvintsev street, building 1, office#1500,

Moscow, 127018, Russian Federation

Tel. (+7 495) 797-2500; Fax: (+7 495) 797-2501

Vilnius University

Prof. Jūras Banys

Pro-Rector for Research

Prof. Rimantas Vaitkus

Pro-Rector for International Affairs

May 3, 2012

Dear Prof. Banys, Prof. Vaitkus

Samsung Moscow Research Center (SMRC) would like to express its great respect to your University and personally to you. We confirm our interest in developing mutually beneficial research collaboration with your University.

We are pleased to announce about the beginning of annual international competition of research projects conducted in the frames of Global Research Outreach (GRO), a world-wide academic research collaboration platform of Samsung opened to world's leading universities and research centers.

We are very delighted to inform you that now we are seeking novel ideas in 71 research subjects as stipulated in the list of 15 themes described below:


Limited Liability Company
Samsung Moscow Research Center

12, Dvintsev street, building 1, office#1500,

Moscow, 127018, Russian Federation

Tel. (+7 495) 797-2500; Fax: (+7 495) 797-2501

· Biomedical Science & Engineering

· Biotherapeutics

· Computational Science

· Connectivity

· Energy

· Image Sensors

· Medical Technology

· Metabolic Engineering

· New Materials

· New Memory

· Next Generation ICs & Interconnections

· Power Electronics

· Process & Design for Product Development

· SoC

· UX


Limited Liability Company
Samsung Moscow Research Center

12, Dvintsev street, building 1, office#1500,

Moscow, 127018, Russian Federation

Tel. (+7 495) 797-2500; Fax: (+7 495) 797-2501

For detailed information about the conditions of GRO program, please, visit our website at www.sait.samsung.co.kr/eng/GROhome/gromain.jsp. You can find out there more about GRO including technology subjects, time line, and past GRO award history.

Deadline for the applications submission is June 16, 2012. E-mail address for submission in the Eastern Europe geographic area is . If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our regional GRO Program Committee is ready to render all the necessary assistance for you on the preparation of your proposals and will fully support the promotion of your proposals in the Samsung Electronics HQ.

We are also would like to announce that on May 10 the Director of SMRC Open Innovation Team Dr. Yuri Borisovich Golubkov will visit Vilnius for the presentation of the GRO program and discussion of other collaboration opportunities between Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Eastern European Universities. If it is possible we kindly ask you to arrange the meeting in Vilnius University. The participants may both scientific administrations of RTU and professors who may be interested. The preferred time is 15-00. Please contact Dr. Dmitry Zaytsev for the arrangements.

Sincerely yours,

Lee Young Min

General Director Samsung Moscow Research Center, LLC