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The School of Sagres (Escola de Sagres in Portuguese), also called Court of Sagres is supposed to have been a group of figures associated with fifteenth century Portuguese navigation, gathered by prince Henry of Portugal in Sagres near Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Algarve.
The Escola Superior Náutica Infante D. Henrique is a Portuguese maritime and Polytechnical college dedicated to education and training of merchant marine officers (deck officers, engineering officers and electro-technical officers), as well as the training of other professionals for the maritime industry, ports, transportation and logistics.
The Naval School (Portuguese: Escola Naval) is a higher education level naval academy in Alfeite, Portugal.The Naval School is located in the Lisbon Naval Base premises, located on the south bank of the Tagus river, in front of the city of Lisbon.
The myth of the "Sagres school" allegedly founded by Prince Henry was created in the 18th century, mainly by Samuel Purchas and Abbé Prévost. In nineteenth-century Portugal, the idealized vision of Prince Henry as a putative pioneer of exploration and science reached its apogee. [22]
The golden age of Portugal and Spain was a direct result of the advancements made in navigation technology and the sciences which allowed for deep water sailing. To the population of Europe , trans-oceanic navigation was an almost inconceivably huge idea, yet the world would never be the same because a man with the simplest of tools managed to ...
This Academy is the origin of the present Naval schools of Portugal and of Brazil. In 1792, the three naval regiments (two of infantry and one of artillery) were reorganized and merged as the Royal Brigade of the Navy (Portuguese: Brigada Real de Marinha). This Brigade was commanded by a flag officer and included divisions of naval artillery ...
School of Shipping: Sea Safety Training Group: South African Maritime Training Academy [21] Durban: Durban University of Technology [20] SA Maritime School and Transport College [21] Transnet Maritime School of Excellence [21] Gqeberha: Nelson Mandela University [22] South African International Maritime Institute [23] Tanzania: Dar es Salaam
Catholic University of Portugal (includes polytechnic schools) European University of Lisbon; Fernando Pessoa University (Porto and Ponte de Lima) (includes polytechnic schools) Lusíada University (Lisbon, Porto and Vila Nova de Famalicão) Lusófona University (Lisbon and Porto) (includes polytechnic schools)