The Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (''Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco'') is a state-run

polytechnic Polytechnic is most commonly used to refer to schools, colleges, or universities that qualify as an institute of technology or vocational university also sometimes called universities of applied sciences. Polytechnic may also refer to: Educatio ...

institute of higher education, comprising schools of agriculture, technology, management, education, art and health. It is headquartered in the city of Castelo Branco where most of its schools operate and has a business management school in the neighboring town of

Idanha-a-Nova Idanha-a-Nova () is a town and surrounding municipality in the district of Castelo Branco, in east-central Portugal. A border municipality with Spain, the population of the municipality in 2011 was 9,716, in an area of 1416.34 km2, making it ...

. The first two schools of this institution opened in 1982 - ''ESA - Escola Superior Agrária'' (agronomy) and 1985 - ''ESE - Escola Superior de Educação'' (education).

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