The Fundació per a la Navocació Oceanica Barcelona is installed in the Remolcadors Building

After the end of the 2014-15 edition, the Fundació per la Naveraciò Oceànica de Barcelona has moved its headquarters and its headquarters to the Remolcadors Building of the Moll de Llevit, which will become the permanent headquarters of the FNOB. From this unique building of Port Vell, which dates back to 1911, restored in 2010 and which also houses the Interpretation Centre of the Barcelona Word Race, will be carried out the program of activities of the new period, which will culminate in 2018 with the celebration of the 4th edition of the race around the world at two, without scales. The signing of the agreement between FNOB and the IMOCA Class for three new editions puts the horizon of the Foundation's current development program in the 2027-28 edition.

Xosé-Carlos Fernandez, new Director General of FNOB, has started his management with this significant change of headquarters and announcing a very intense programme of activities for the coming years. With the strong support of the Patronato de La FNOB, efforts have been initiated to have the tax benefits for the next edition of the race. The FNOB will also maximize its teaching activity, and social commitment, to the dissemination of the ocean candle, its raison d'être as an institution.

The main idea is to strengthen the FNOB figure, which will be consolidated as one of the reference entities of the ocean sail, promoting the contact, knowledge and promotion of this sport. The FNOB will create a documentary reference fund for the service of athletes, teams, media and sponsors. The FNOB building, at the entrance to the Port, is a recognizable icon of the city's sporting vocation and its unrenounced relationship with the culture of the sea.

To this end, the consolidation of the FNOB, a major programme is being launched around the Foundation's four main areas:

Sport
• Office of the Navigant, which will assist in the consolidation of the projects of the navigators, providing logistical support, collaboration in the search for sponsorship, training, contacts and institutional support among others.
• Organization of at least one race per year, not only in IMOCA class, prioritizing the promotion of new navigators and the dissemination of ocean sailing.
• Promotion of Barcelona as a port of arrival, departure or passage of all kinds of high-rise races, making available to the organizers institutional support, logistics and services.
• Specific support to the Mini 6.5 Class, a natural entrance door to ocean navigation, in collaboration with entities and associations of this class, facilitating the process of inciting the ocean sailing of competition.

Industry
In the next editions an industrial-business pole will be developed, allowing the generation of jobs of value added and stable, around the ocean sports candle with four vertical axes:

1. The preparation of ships for ocean races (International Nautical Base for IMOCA, Mini, Figaro classes...)
2. Virtual business (value chain) development cluster of R & D & I projects with epicenter in the ocean boat "Mini 6.5."

For example:
• Technological development of image / sound transmission under conditions of support instability (races)
• Development of navigation instruments, such as smart automatic pilot, tissues, materials, etc.
• Zero emission ship development: Electric motors. Recyclable materials...
3. Spin-off projects linked to scientific and R & D & I developments, with universities for final career projects linked to the Value Chain of the Ocean Sport Navigation.
4. Development of the value chain of the lyophilised food product.

Science
The BWR is also environment and commitment to nature, especially the sea. In this regard, the project generates activities in its environment, which serve as a testing and research laboratory for the preservation of the environment in the oceans. The collaboration of the Fundación de Navocació Oceanica in Barcelona with renowned scientific entities at both the international and national levels will again allow the development of effective collaboration projects between athletes and scientists.

The data obtained from the projects developed and funded by FNOB in the last edition of the race have been made available to the scientific community and are being used as a basis for research, thesis and scientific projects that will bear fruit over the next 3 years.

Again, FNOB is in contact with UNESCO with the aim of renewing the convention on the basis of three axes:
1. Ocean science projects (science and science)
2. Scientific Dissemination Methodologies (Dissemination and Pedagogues)
3. Responsible responsibility for the seas (environment and navigators)

Training
The FNOB will carry out training activities and educational programmes, linked to Barcelona World Race and the different activities of ocean navigation. A clear example is the reedition of the annual and continuing educational programmes, not only concerning the knowledge of ocean navigation, but also the intrinsic values of the navigators (ability to overcome, and shared forces, teamwork, discipline...).

The aim is to increase the number of students who have passed through the educational programmes in the last edition, over 35,000 only in the school area. Satisface that the evaluation of the latest educational programmes, carried out by an independent and authorized entity such as the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation with the participating schools that have been involved, has been 9.5 out of 10. We will increase the number of students, maintaining this level of satisfaction.

New headquarters
The FNOB human team is already installed in the Edidi Remolcadors, which will continue to offer in its facilities also the multi-purpose rooms for presentations and conferences, the permanent exhibition concerning the Barcelona World Race and, of course, the boarding dock of the IMOCA Open 60 Mirabaud, for the promotion and dissemination of the ocean sail thanks to an intense programme of activities.

The proximity to the Nautical Base of the FNOB, where the industrial activity related to the ships, maintenance and training will facilitate a more effective management of this important core of activity of the FNOB.

In September, the FNOB's communication department will organize a series of meetings with the media in order to explain the project in detail to 2018 in the framework of a series of round tables, tertulias and presentations at its headquarters, continuing a tradition of participatory and informative events that began in 2011.

For more information:http: / / www.fnob.org / qui-som