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Acquera Education’s mission: Lifelong Learning and Constant Enhancement

At Acquera Academy, our mission is to educate international talent to become yachting professionals through innovation and quick thinking.  We lead this transformation by training our students to be not only highly skilled but also deeply attuned to the evolving needs of luxury clients.  In our work we are attentive to details, to technicalities but also to relationships, to people. So, when we thought of our logo, we did not only want something unidimensional and descriptive nor “just” a pretty sign, but we aspired to have a logo that is familiar, yet elevated; simple yet multidimensional; specific yet inclusive. Our…

NAVIGATING IN OUR ACADEMY

Our first Academy started on the 1st of March 2023, and it is doing wonderfully! The selected 14 talents come from all around the Mediterranean: from Sicily to Turkey, including Sardinia, Venice, Civitavecchia, etc…. During this very intense course held in English, we alternate hard and soft skills theory with practical applications to prepare our talents to the challenges of a career in the Yachting industry. But this does not stop here. We wanted this Academy to be focussed and intense, but also enriching and far-reaching for the students. We therefore decided to include in the program subjects that will…

Acquera and Umana

“When we decided to create our Academy, as a central and essential element of our Acquera Education division, we thought that Umana would have been the best partner to help us select and place the best talents. Umana understood immediately our project as they have always believed in the centrality of people to create a virtual growth of a company. Umana Forma trainings all follow a process of continuous learnings and growth which apply to different needs and life stages. They can adapt and suggest new ways for a company to foster internal growth through the talents of their people.…

Solomon’s Knot

Inspired by Solomon's knot, a traditional decorative motif found in ancient graffities around Venice, our logo is rich in meaning and incarnates what we believe in. A bit of history first. The so called “Solomon knot” is found throughout the Mediterranean, but also in African, Amerindian and Asian cultures. It is one of the oldest pagan signs and it is precisely the variety of contexts in which it appears that makes it universal, rich, multidimensional and penetrable. It is a dynamic symbol, a virtual spiral that leads to improvement. It also induces fluidity, the waves of the sea, flexibility, softness, the…