The Naval School 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 school offers university and polytechnical graduate programmes intended to train the future officers of the Portuguese Navy. It also offers postgraduate programmes, these being open to civilians, as well to naval and other military personnel.
Organization
The Portuguese Naval School includes:
- Commanding officer – a rear-admiral;
- Deputy commanding officer – a naval captain;
- Scientific Council;
- Pedagogical Council;
- Board of School Discipline;
- Naval Research Center (CINAV);
- Office for the Coordination of Evaluation;
- Directorate of Teaching;
- Student Corps – a battalion composed of five cadet companies;
- Support services.
Academics
University graduate programmes
- Master in naval military sciences, Navy speciality (5 years)
- Master in naval military sciences, Naval administration speciality (5 years)
- Master in naval military sciences, Marines speciality (5 years)
- Master in naval military sciences, Naval engineering (mechanics) speciality (5 years)
- Master in naval military sciences, Naval engineering (weapons and electronics) speciality (5 years)
- Master in naval military sciences, Naval medicine speciality (only the part of naval training, the medicine studies being done in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon)
Polytechnical graduate programmes
- Bachelor, Administration and secretariat (3 years)
- Bachelor, Weapons and electronics (3 years)
- Bachelor, Mechanics (3 years)
- Bachelor, Marines (3 years)
- Bachelor, Computer science (3 years)
- Bachelor, Divers (3 years)
- Bachelor, Hydrography (3 years)
- Bachelor, Communications (3 years)
Postgraduate programmes
- Postgraduate in hyperbaric medicine
- Postgraduate in law and cybersecurity
- Master in maritime history
- Master in military history
Other programmes
- Training program for special duty officers
- Training program for limited duty Officers
- Basic training program for officers
Research and development
The Portuguese Naval School includes the Naval Research Center (CINAV, Centro de Investigação Naval) that has the responsibility of coordinating, developing and supporting naval research activities. Some research projects being developed at the CINAV are:
- Submarine acoustics;
- Light weapons;
- Electroencephalogram analysis;
- Georeferenced data analysis;
- Naval unmanned air vehicles;
- Marine machines maintenance.