Sampoerna University has been actively encouraging research and community service activities as the embodiment of Tri Dharma of Indonesian Higher Education. Therefore, Center for Research and Community Service (CRCS) unit has been established under the VRASA (Vice Rector of Academic and Student Affairs) Office to facilitate and administer research and community service activities conducted by our faculties.

The main responsibilities of CRCS unit are:

• To help our faculties to organize the basic research, advance research, and/or applied research;
• To produce innovations that are useful for higher education and for the supremacy of the nation while observing academic norms and ethics based on the scientific autonomic principle of the vision and mission of Sampoerna University; as well as provision of laws and regulations through cooperation with government, industry and community;
• To assist our faculties to organize the community service in the form of services, empowerment and/or cooperation with the communities with due observance of the norms, ethics, and in line with the respective academic competencies; and
• To carry out the community services individually or collaboratively with other faculties and/or students by applying science and technology. These studies are expected to empower the people, improve the people’s intelligence and the required soft skills, and develop the intellectual life of the nation.