Aligned with the Army General Staff guidelines, the School implemented modernization and management improvement projects. At the same time, through specific projects, it preserved historical objects and collections, as well as the memory of previous commanders who entrusted ECEME with personal objects. The School adopts diverse curriculum and disciplines corresponding to the offered courses, using the Teaching by Competences Methodology. It seeks curriculum which continuously is updated and that is reviewed periodically with the use of a methodology substantiated on scientific basis, specially developed for the Brazilian Army education system. The school evaluation system has been continually improved, considering students’ performance in school activities, especially in group work and in the results of formal tests. The School emphasizes integration and group work in its activities, adopts a reading program to stimulate the reading and to extend the culture of the officers and develops a broad external relation with educational entities, civil and military, seeking the cooperation in many areas of education. The School has a modern cultural space, the library, which brings together a reception hall and an exhibit. The library has a large collection of materials for consultation, besides being linked to other libraries in the country and abroad, it specializes in military science. In addition to reading selected books and stimulating self-improvement, the School offers its students visits to historical sites such as the Santa Cruz Fortress, the Imbuhy and Rio Branco Forts, the Army Historical Museum, the National Historical Museum, the Museum of WWII Casualties and exhibitions of cultural interest. Physical training is fundamental for good school performance. Military physical training is included in the discipline plan and supported by the Centro de Capacitação Física do Exército – CCEFEx (Army Physical Training Center). According to the Admission and Enrollment Regulation Instructions (IRCAM), the selection process for Higher Military Studies Courses (CAEM) is executed in three subprocesses: registration, institutional selection and intellectual selection. After the registration deferment, the institutional selection is carried out by the Permanent Committee of Inquiry of the Diretoria de Avaliação e Promoções – DAPROM (Army Evaluation and Promotion Department). The third subprocess, the intellectual selection, is carried out by discursive tests. The admissions competition, for the combatant and military engineers officers, is composed of 02 (two) tests, which cover the subjects of geography and history. Medical officers only perform the geography test. All applicants must already be qualified in one foreign language. The competition selects the future leaders of the Army and due to the functions they will perform, they will require cognitive and affective capacities, which can be summarized as follows:  1.