‘Streets, Squares, Parks and Gardens’ pays tribute to the sportpersons and personalities from the world of sport represented in the city of Barcelona.
In the book ‘Streets, Squares, Parks and Gardens’ Juli Pernas, Director of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, has compiled the history of the spaces in Barcelona dedicated directly or indirectly to sport.
First seminar on “Education and the Olympic Movement: Olympic values in education”
The Darder Museum in Banyoles hosted this first seminar on Education and the Olympic Movement organised by the Banyoles Centre for Olympic Studies – University of Girona, in collaboration with the Joan Antoni Samaranch Centre for Olympic and Sports Studies of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation.
Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CAFES) students from the Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sports Sciences in the Olympic Museum.
The students visited the Olympic Museum facilities after completing the “Management of the Olympic and Sport Museum” masterclass, presented by its director, Juli Pernas.
Marta Carranza, president of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and Commissioner for Sport for the Barcelona City Council, head of the Board of Trustees that includes Pere Miró, deputy director general of the CIO and director of the Olympic Charity.
The Barcelona Olympic Foundation Board is made up of the Barcelona City Council, the Spanish Olympic Committee, the State Administration (through the Higher Sports Council), the Catalonia Regional Government (through the Secretary General for Sport) and five individual members: His Excellency Mr Josep Miquel Abad, His Excellency Mr Romà Cuyàs, His Excellency Mr Josep Lluís Vilaseca, Ms Teresa Samaranch and Mr Pere Miró.
Final conference and closing of the 11th Edition of the Olympic Forum
Today’s morning conference began with Paco Medina, director of the Open Camp Project, the first park in the world dedicated to sport where technology and sports are made available to the public. An ambitious project that will see the light of day on 16/06/2016 in the Olympic Ring located on Montjuïc and where the Olympic Museum will be a protagonist.
Social networks were the topic addressed in the morning conference held during the 11th Edition of the Olympic Forum.
Romà Cuyas, former Secretary of Sport; Gerard Esteva, President of the Sports Federation Union of Catalonia (UFEC); Santiago Siquier, territorial representative of the Generalitat and Marta Carranza, Commissioner of Sport of Barcelona City Hall, were in charge of opening the conferences of this 11th Edition of the Olympic Forum.
Technological progress enables precision and control in sports
The afternoon session in the Olympic Forum spoke highly of new technologies and the wonderful possibilities they offer sports.
Winners for the 6TH BARCELONA OLYMPIC FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ART ON PAPER AWARD, organised by the Barcelona Olympic Foundation (FBO)
The winners of this 6TH OLYMPIC FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ART ON PAPER AWARD has been:
VALLEY UPRISING’ WINNER OF THE 6th EDITION OF THE BCN SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL
Xavier Amador, Esports Internacionals Relationships director, and Franco Ascani, president of the FICTS, were the persons who gave the Àmfora Ciutat de Barcelona to the best film in the 6th edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival to ‘VALLEY UPRISING’, a documentary by Nick Rosen and Peter Mortimer. A production by Zachary Barr. The greatest untold story of American counter-culture is that of the Yosemite Valley rock climbers. For fifty years, Yosemite’s massive cliffs have drawn explorers and madmen to leave materialism behind and venture into the high, lonesome granite.
Tribute to Nelson Mandela. The Olympic Museum opens the Mandela-AWEPA space.
Maite Fandos, present of the Fundació Barcelona Olímpica; Miet Smet, president of AWEPA Europe, and Josep Maldonado, President of AWEPA Spain, were given the honour of formally opening the Mandela – AWEPA Space of the Olympic Museum. Maria Teresa Samaranch, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, Albert Batlle, Director-General of the Mossos d’Esquadra police force; Enric Truñó, Executive Councillor for Sport during the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games; Joan Anton Camuñas, former Secretary-General for Sport, and representatives of Barcelona’s consular corps, were among the leading dignitaries who chose to attend the event in recognition of the lifetime achievement of Nelson Mandela.
