Open Fiber with Elis inaugurates the training area for fiber operators in Rome

Open Fiber’s cabling plan, which is building an entirely fiber-optic infrastructure to help reduce Italy’s digital divide, today marks an important milestone in the collaboration with the Elis training center in Rome. Delegate, Elisabetta Ripa, the company officially inaugurates a new training area at the Pop (Point of Presence) in Rome Tiburtina at 5.00 pm, which is located inside the Elis campus. Next to the central hub of Open Fiber, which illuminates over 50 thousand real estate units in the area, from today the students of the specialization course for optical fiber splicers who will be able to train in a simulation space that reproduces the environments with wells, poles and building facades citizens and rural areas where, one day, they will be grappling with the laying of the fiber. “The training of the specialized resources employed on our construction sites is a fundamental node for achieving the country’s ultra-broadband coverage objectives – declared Elisabetta Ripa on the eve of the event -. We strongly believe in this challenge and, thanks to the collaboration with Elis, we have long been directly committed to ensuring the labor market figures capable of responding to the needs of our suppliers “.” To date – continues the CEO – we have connected 11.7 million real estate units and the goal is to reach around 20 million: we therefore continually need new qualified personnel to build a network that, in this difficult year, has shown all its resilience, allowing workers and students to continue their activities without interruptions. We are proud that Open Fiber is alongside ELIS students in this important phase of personal and professional growth. ”In all, there are twelve hubs for fiber optic technologies built by Open Fiber in the capital. They contain the equipment of all the operators that provide services on its network and already make it possible to connect over 330 thousand housing units for a total of about 900 km of new infrastructure so far built in the Rome area. designed for training in the workplace is the result of a collaboration that has continued for years and which sees Open Fiber and ELIS engaged, together, in numerous initiatives aimed at training and youth employment. Among these, the participation of Open Fiber in the school-work alternation program, which sees ELIS and the companies of its consortium dialogue with over 200 high schools through classroom teaching activities with professionals and training experiences in real work situations. Another area of ​​collaboration is the Sistema Scuola Impresa 4.0 project, dedicated to the transformation processes of teaching and orientation to the professions of the future.