In 1988 CEFRIEL (www.cefriel.it) was established as an ICT consortium among universities in the Milano area, several large companies and the regional government. Its mission was to foster technology transfer between university labs and the main ICT Italian companies, by initiating a Master in Information and Communication Technologies and pursuing innovative projects through a joint effort of its own experts, academic researchers and engineers from the industrial partners.
Today CEFRIEL has been joined by numerous Italian and foreign industrial partners, and it can rely on collaborators for promoting technological innovation of products and services.