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El Barcelona World Race Ocean Campus

In no sport is so much scientific and technological knowledge required by athletes as in ocean sailing competition. At the Barcelona World Race we were pioneers in designing and implementing educational courses to transmit this knowledge to fans, students and the general public. It is a project of social responsibility and branding education, whose MOOC (in Spanish, Catalan and English) can still be followed on the online platforms of the University of Barcelona.

In 2014, the Barcelona World Race faced its third edition. Latitud 42 had been responsible from the beginning for the Editorial Direction of the regatta creating the communication content.
After the commitment of the Fundació Oceànica Barcelona (FNOB), organizer of the regatta, for the development of science (see the Oceanographic Observatory) and education (See the Educational Program), we were proposed to develop a platform to bring the broad knowledge scientific and technical to the followers of the regatta and to the whole society.
The result was the Barcelona World Race Ocean Campus (currently Ocean Campus FNOB), a pioneering initiative in the world of sailing. The objective of disseminating with university rigor the wide range of scientific, humanistic and technological disciplines that are applied and developed in the sport of ocean sailing and whose knowledge and use are essential both for survival at sea and for sporting success in a ocean regatta.

Some of the courses at the BARCELONA WORLD RACE OCEAN CAMPUS

WEATHER - STRATEGIES TO WIN. WEATHER AROUND THE WORLD

Weather is essential for sailing safety and is the very essence of tactics and strategy to win a race. It is the science most directly related to ocean sailing.

This course explains the main engines of time on Earth and what navigators need to know about them. What are the bases of oceanic meteorology, how are digital files generated from forecast models and how navigators receive them on board, via satellite, to integrate them into high-competition software. They are also taught to analyze the meteorological characteristics of the Barcelona World Race route that crosses up to 12 different climatic zones in which the most extreme phenomena take place.

The followers of the regatta were able to analyze the meteorological situations day by day.

From the website tracker and obtain explanatory content of the course in the same way as THE GAME players, with daily weather analysis.

Teacher and Coordinator: Marcel Van Triest

Associate professors: Jordi Barinaga and Santi Serrat

Teacher and Coordinator: Tomàs Molina

OCEANOGRAPHY - A KEY TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING OUR WORLD

In the Barcelona World Race skippers also become scientific agents who will collaborate in oceanographic research projects with the IOC-UNESCO.

In this course, oceanographic bases are explained. How the seabed is classified and formed, how current satellite sea analysis systems work, ocean chemistry and the processes that have led to its formation.

Teacher and coordinator: Jordi Serra

Teachers: Jordi Flos, Jordi Font, Jordi Salat, Antoni Cruzado and Isabel Cacho.

FOOD AND NUTRITION - GASTRONOMY AND HIGH PERFORMANCE FOOD FOR A ROUND THE WORLD

Eating properly while sailing around the world is not easy. The food and nutritional requirements are very high. Food must weigh the minimum, withstand a humid environment and high temperature variations, and be stowed safely and in an organized manner. Its nutritional value has to be high and be able to provide the needs of a very hard physical and mental activity subjected to the most extreme climatic conditions.

This course explains what are the foods that are embarked on the Barcelona World Race, how they are designed and manufactured freeze-dried, how to create menus of high organoleptic value (good taste and texture) which is a very important feature in the psychological performance of long-distance sailors. The course presents the method of calculating nutritional needs and how a diet is planned to perform at its best during the preparation and sailing periods around the world.

Associated projects in the Barcelona World Race 2014/15: Development of foods with high nutritional and organoleptic value in conjunction with the Unitat, Bullipèdia Campus Torribera, Celler de Can Roca, Sosa Ingredients and Telstar.

Celler Can Roca

Teachers and coordinators: Pere Castells and Vicky Pons.

CHRONOBIOLOGY - THE BRAIN ON A NON-STOPPING AROUND THE WORLD.
CHRONOBIOLOGY AND SLEEP MANAGEMENT

The sailors of a regatta that go around the world in a west-east direction in three months, sailing in four-hour watch shifts. They navigate the Atlantic from north to south, with few variations in longitude, but with many variations in latitude, going from the boreal winter to the southern summer; then they go around Antarctica with many variations in length, eventually gaining one day from the calendar. In this situation, their biological rhythms and sleep patterns are significantly altered, so their cognitive ability and physical performance may be compromised.

This course deals with the foundations of the biological patterns that govern sleep and performance in general, and their application to solo and two-man ocean sailing. How the circadian rhythms are altered when navigating around the world after months of environmental changes and the fractionation of the activity-rest rhythm and what are the strategies to follow to get to sleep and adapt to the harshness of the journey.

Associated projects in the Barcelona World Race 2014/15: The course team carried out the investigation Cognitive changes associated with ocean navigation in extreme conditions with Aleix Gelabert and Dídac Costa, patterns of the

One Planet One Ocean. Measurements were taken before and immediately after navigation, which included functional neuroimaging, polysomnography, sleep-wake patterns and cognitive performance, as well as daily measurements during the entire navigation period of sleep-wake patterns, cognitive performance and environmental factors. . There was very little previous scientific work and none with the recording techniques that were used, not even during a regatta as long as the Barcelona World Race.

Teachers: Sandra Giménez Badia, Anna Adam

MEDICINE
INJURIES, ILLNESSES AND TELEMEDICINE IN EXTREME SAILING

During a sailing around the world, sailors are subjected to the harshest physical, mental and environmental conditions, so their health is seriously compromised. The Barcelona World Race lasts three months and the sailors sail for many weeks through the most inhospitable and far from land seas on the planet. For this reason, they have to possess a high degree of medical and hygienic knowledge to survive on their own and overcome possible diseases, injuries and physiological alterations that may befall them in the ocean. On the other hand, the organization of the regatta establishes a remote medical assistance system based on the most advanced telecommunication technologies.

This course teaches what are the basic medical techniques for the prevention of medical problems on board, how to prepare and the techniques of action to solve the main medical problems that can arise in a round the world tour. Remote medical care protocols and associated technology will also be described.

Associated projects in the Barcelona World Race 2014/ 15: Medical assistance to sailors through the Regatta Medical Directorate in charge of Dr. Belén Gualis from the Teknon Medical Center. Development of improvements in the methodologies used in telemedicine.

Teacher and coordinator: Belen Gualis

HOW IT WAS MADE

Editorial area FNOB

Direction and coordination

Santi Serrat

Realization and multimedia production

Àgata Olivella

Carles Clastre / Barcelona World Race TV

Editorial coordination, graphic editing and publication

Cristina Barredo / Latitude 42

Video production
Mireia Perelló

Translation to English
Alice mclean

Academic area UB

Direction and coordination, promotion
Jordi Renom

Assessment and certification system
Jordi Renom, Antonio Herrera / Inlea

Intellectual property legal advice

Ignasi labastida