The “Shipwrecks” project team gathered in Portugal to discuss ideas and decide on the course of action for the coming months of this WIRE by FilmEU Horizon Mission pilot, from 20 to 22 March 2025.
The agenda for these 3 days of work included presentations from invited guests associated with the stories under development, namely the Spanish writer Francisco Benitez Aguilar (1) and the French maritime archeologist Jean-Yves Blot (2). This internal event also had the presence of Augusto António Alves Salgado (3), director of the Portuguese Navy Museum, located at World Heritage site of Monastery of Jerónimos, in Lisbon. The impact of climate change in Portuguese coastal areas was addressed by Anabela Cruces, professor at Lusófona University (4).
The program of this team meeting also included a field visit to Peniche, to the shipwreck site of the Spanish ship San Pedro de Alcântara, as well as to the recently inaugurated Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade, located at the Peniche fortress. The project team also had the opportunity to visit the Museu de Marinha, located at Mosteiro de Jerónimos in Lisbon. The “Infamous Shipwrecks” project is the joint effort of researchers from Lusófona University (Portugal), IADT (Ireland), NATFA (Bulgaria) and VIA University College – Aarhus (Denmark).
(1) Francisco Benitez Aguilar
Journalist, writer, playwright, poet, Ibero-Americanist.
Author of “El Príncipe Inca, Naufragio de un Imperio” (2024)
(2) Jean-Yves Blot
Marine archaeologist and author; Director of missions of identification /excavation of shipwreck site San Pedro de Alcantara
(3) Augusto António Alves Salgado
Capitão-de-mar-e-guerra
Director of Museu de Marinha/ Navy Museum – Portugal;
PhD History of Discoveries
(4) Anabela Cruces
Professor and director of the 1st Cycle of Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University; PhD in Geology
