CEFRIEL is a technology transfer institution created in 1988 to support industry-university cooperation in Information and Communication Technology. CEFRIEL's shareholders are universities, public administrations, and major ICT industries.

CEFRIEL primary objective is to strengthen existing ties between academic and business worlds in the innovative ICT sector.

CEFRIEL has been conceived and structured to pursue its mission.

Thanks to its distinctive operative model and multidisciplinary competences, CEFRIEL is able to design a wide range of innovative products and services based on customer requirements and integrating the most recent scientific research results, the best technologies available on the market, the emerging standards and the reality of the industrial processes.

CEFRIEL is part of the ICT Institute, recently created by Politecnico di Milano to coordinate and promote overall initiatives related to higher education, research and innovation in the ICT sector.