The purpose of the Programme is to give multidisciplinary knowledge and competence on photonics transmission and networking as well as on fundamentals of metrology and of time reference distribution on telecommunications infrastructure based on optical fiber transmission. The Programme is aimed at students with different backgrounds: graduated in the ICT field and graduated from schools of Physics and Metrology, and will train hybrid professional figures who will be able to design and manage state-of-the-art photonic networks to support the ever-increasing IP traffic demands well as to distribute time references from and among metrology centers.

The 2^nd level Specializing Master is a full time Programme of one academic year duration for a total of 69 ECTS; it will start in January 2019 and will end in February 2020.

Lectures will be held in English at Politecnico di Torino premises – starting in January 2019 and ending in October 2019.

Lectures include classroom activities with academic and corporate teaching staff.

The internship period will start in November 2019 and will end in February 2020. 

The teaching Programme is organized as follows:

• courses: 32 weeks of full-time classroom activities (January 2019 – October 2019)
• internship: 8 weeks (250 hours) of on the job training at companies and/or research institutes in the photonic technologies field (November 2019 – February 2020).