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Almirante Brás de Aguiar Instruction Center
Centro de Instrução Almirante Brás de Aguiar
Motto	Educar e Navegar
Motto in English	Educate & Navegate
Type	Public University-level Military academy
Established	October 13, 1892; 132 years ago (Escola de Machinistas do Estado do Pará)
Commander	Cpt. João Orlando Enes Prudêncio
Location	Belém, Pará, Brazil; 1°22′12″S 48°28′44″W / 1.370°S 48.479°W
Affiliations	Brazilian Navy
Website	www.marinha.mil.br/ciaba/

The Almirante Brás de Aguiar Instruction Center (Portuguese: Centro de Instrução Almirante Brás de Aguiar, CIABA) OMN is a military organization of the Brazilian Navy.^[1]^[2] The institution it is charged with training officers for the Brazilian Merchant Marine and Brazilian Navy Reserve Officer Corps.^[3]

Located in the Amazon region, it nonetheless attracts exchange students from all over the country and even from other Latin American and African countries. The students are Midshipmen in the Brazilian Navy during the three-year-long course. The Academy is certified by the International Maritime Organization and its graduates receive an STCW certificate.^[2]

History

The history of the institution begins when it is established the Machinist Course and Nautical Course, created by the then President of the Republic Marshal Floriano Peixoto in 1892, on the demand of the Admiral Custódio José de Melo.^[1]^[2]^[4]^[5]^[6] Its first headquarters was installed in a room of the old Navy Arsenal Inspectorate building, where the Convent of São Boaventura dos Religiosos da Conceição do Beira de Minhos used to be, and where the Command of the 4th Naval District of the Brazilian Navy is located today.^[1]^[7]

On April 20, 1893, by Decree No. 1362, it was turned into the Machinists and Pilots School (Portuguese: Escola de Machinistas e Pilotos do Estado do Pará).^[1]^[8]^[9] In 1907, new classes started to be taught, such as the Commissary and Radiotelegraphy Courses, which occasioned a new transformation.^[2]^[9] The Merchant Marine School of Pará (Portuguese: Escola de Marinha Mercante do Pará, EMMPA) was created, which left the small room at the Arsenal of the Navy to occupy its new two-story building, also built on land owned by the Command of the Fourth Naval District.^[1]^[2]^[7]^[10]

EMMPA continued to train and adapt crew members, pilots, machinists, radiotelegraph operators and commissioners until, due to technological progress, it was again transformed into the Almirante Brás de Aguiar Training Center by Decree No. 71,718 of January 16, 1973, at the suggestion of the Pará historian Augusto Meira Filho.^[9]^[11]

Merchant Marine Officer Training School

The Merchant Marine Officer Training School (Portuguese: Escola de Formação de Oficiais da Marinha Mercante, EFOMM) is designed to train deck officers and engineers, with a bachelor degree in Nautical Science and as members of the Brazilian Navy's military reserve force board with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.^[9]

The entire student body is referred to as the Regiment of Midshipmen^[1] and is subdivided into three battalions.^[12] The 1st and 2nd Companies form the 1st Battalion, the 3rd and Band Companies make up the 2nd Battalion, while the 4th and 5th Company make the 3rd Battalion. Company assignment is random.

Organization

The academy is administered by the Brazilian Maritime Administration (Portuguese: Diretoria de Portos e Costas), funded by the Merchant Marine Fund (Portuguese: Fundo da Marinha Mercante).^[13]

Academics

The Centro de Instrução Almirante Brás de Aguiar is dedicated to education and training of merchant marine officers (deck officers, engineering officers, as well as the training of other professionals for the maritime industry, ports, transportation and logistics).^[9]^[14]^[15]

Undergraduated education programmes

CIABA-EFOMM offers the following degree programmes oriented for the training of future merchant marine officers:

B.Sc. in Maritime studies (Deck officers' programme)
B.Sc. in Marine machines engineering (Engineering officers' programme)

The bachelor degrees (three years of study) in Marine studies and Marine machines engineering give access, respectively, to the careers of deck officers and engineer officers of the merchant marine.

Professional technical courses

In addition, professional technical (PREPOM) courses include:

Able seaman (Portuguese: Marinheiro Fluvial de Convés, MFC)
Motorman (Portuguese: Marinheiro Fluvial de Máquinas, MFM)
Ordinary seaman (Portuguese: Moço de Convés, MOC)
Ordinary motorman (Portuguese: Moço de Máquinas, MOM)
Steward (Portuguese: Cozinheiro ou Taifeiro, CTS)

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Machado, Cpt. Ronaldo. "Oficialato Mercante" [Merchant Officer]. Revista Marítima Brazileira (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Diretoria do Patrimônio Histórico e Documentação da Marinha (DPHDM). Retrieved 26 June 2022 – via Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Histórico" [Background]. Federal government of Brazil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
^ "Missão" [Mission]. Brazilian Navy (Press release) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 21 June 2022.
^ "Decreto n.101/1892" [Decree No. 101/1892]. Chamber of Deputies (in Brazilian Portuguese). Federal District. 13 Oct 1892. Retrieved 21 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
^ "Decreto n.102/1892" [Decree No. 102/1892]. Chamber of Deputies (in Brazilian Portuguese). Federal District. 13 Oct 1892. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
^ Janoti 1986, p. 66
^ ^a ^b Oliveira 1968, p. 748
^ "Decreto n.1362/1893" [Decree No. 1362/1893]. Federal Senate (Brazil) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. 20 April 1893. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Aqui se prepara o pessoal da Marinha Mercante" [Here the Merchant Marine personnel are prepared]. Diário do Pará (in Brazilian Portuguese). Belém do Pará. 31 May 1985. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
^ "Summario: Actos do Poder Executivo" [Summary: Executive Branch Acts]. Diário Oficial da União (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 Mar 1907. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
^ "Decreto n.71,718/1973" [Decree No. 71718/1973]. Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brasília. 16 January 1973. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
^ "Organograma" [Prganizational chart] (PDF). Retrieved 2022-06-22.
^ "Fundos Governamentais" [Governmental Funding]. Brazilian Development Bank (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-22.
^ "Lei 13.194/2015" [Law 13.194/2015]. Federal government of Brazil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brasilía. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
^ "Cursos" [Courses]. marinha.mil.br/ciaba (in Brazilian Portuguese). Belém. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

Bibliography

Oliveira, José Lopes de (1968). "Vol. 6: Fortificações da Amazônia". In Rocque, Carlos (ed.). Grande Enciclopédia da Amazônia (in Brazilian Portuguese). Belém do Pará: Amazônia Editora Ltda. p. 748.
Janoti, Maria de Lourdes Mônaco (1986). Os Subversivos da República [The Republic's Subversives] (in Brazilian Portuguese). São Paulo: Brasiliense.