Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli (SSGRR) was the Telecom Italia’s Post-Graduate International Academy and research centre in information and communication technologies, founded in L'Aquila on 1976 by STET and that concluded its activities in 2009.
[1] The school, named after Guglielmo Reiss Romoli, the first post-war STET general manager, was founded consequently to the need to train the new engineers and executives in the telecommunications industry.
The activities were progressively open to participants from companies outside the STET group, consolidating the role of the school as a center of excellence in the ICT sector.
[8] It covers 170 thousand square meters with five tennis courts, one soccer field, a multipurpose facility, a fitness trail, swimming pool and two gyms.
An example of on demand activity was the Corso di Perfezionamento in Telecomunicazioni (Telecommunications Specialization Course), lasting several months and mandatory for all the newly hired employees of the Telecom Italia group.
[16] Based on the availability of the internal faculty, consultancy activities were also offered both on training projects design and on specialist areas in the technical and managerial fields.
[18] The publishing activity was progressively extended to the local printing of the quarterly newsletter Società dell'informazione (Information Society),[19] the proceeding of the conferences held at its premise, and scientific books’ reprints.