page_title: Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli
context_page_description: Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli 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.
context_section_description: 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. SSGRR began its operations in a temporary office in L'Aquila in 1972, while waiting for the construction of its campus in Coppito, near L'Aquila. The school legal status turned to a closed joint-stock company in July 28, 1976, and the official opening of the campus took place in 1977. In 1976 the first director of the school was Luigi Bonavoglia, who successively became president of the school in 1985.
  The school was originally intended for post-graduate training of SIP and STET managers and executives. The lecturers were partly internal and partly coming from other companies or from Italian and international universities and research centers, like CSELT. The fields addressed by the training and research activities were both technical in the ICT sector (architecture of telecommunications networks and services, telecommunications infrastructures and technologies, information technology) and managerial (marketing and strategy, organization, regulation).
  The SSGRR’s scope of work was very wide, because the group was composed of companies ranging from the design of integrated circuits in SGS, to software development and equipment design in Italtel, to telecommunications services operation by SIP. 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.
  In 2001 took place the merger by incorporation into SSGRR of other Telecom Italia group’s companies dealing with training (Consiel Formazione and Trainet) and of the training centers of Telecom Italia, globally rebranded as Telecom Italia Learning Services (TILS). In July 2006, the spin-off of TILS from the Telecom Italia group took place establishing a new company, TILS Holding, owned by Cegos and Camporlecchio Educational. After several corporate and judicial events, which led to the arrest of the managing director Renzo Bracciali on April 28, 2009, TILS Holding ended its operations in 2009.
  Following-up to the shutdown of the company, large part of the staff was re-absorbed in the HR Services subsidiary of Telecom Italia, and the Reiss Romoli brand was taken over by a group of former school employees who relaunched the training activities through a new company, still based in L'Aquila.
caption: Simultaneous interpreting during a class
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