Barcelona and 5G technology

The Catalan capital is postulated to lead the development of new

technology that can boost important advances in areas as varied as

health or mobility.

The Mediterranean flavor of Barcelona dazzles the Mobile World Congress

3G came to bring the Internet to phones much more comfortable and deep than GPRS and GSM. The 4G – the technology that is used at the moment: it surpassed it to popularize the consumption of audiovisual content in a fluid way on smartphones and tablets. And the next stage in the path of the evolution of communications is the 5G, which will provide the ability to transmit information in real time. And it is that when some element is now displayed in supposedly direct – a Facebook Live, for example – there are always a few seconds of delay between the action and the moment in which it is played. A delay that the experts call latency and that the 5G eliminates by reducing it to the minimum expression.
Although it may seem subtle, the change represents an authentic revolution just when the fourth industrial revolution is underway, with the digitalization of production processes and the internet of things. For example, the road to the autonomous vehicle will be paved and will lead to disruptive advances in areas as varied as health or logistics. This special supplement from Avantgarde explains some of the most advanced applications, but there is still a lot of ground to explore. The change of paradigm is about to begin, it is expected that between 2019 and 2020 the foundations will be felt, and the year of the definitive takeoff of 5G should be 2021.
The change supposes a true revolution just when the fourth industrial revolution is under way, with the digitalization of the productive processes and the internet of things

In this context, Barcelona is running to lead the development of this nascent technology thanks to a city alliance: 5G Barcelona. “The objective is to get the city to be placed in the 5G Championships”, defines the 5G director of the Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital), Eduard Martín. It is a public-private collaboration tool sponsored by MWCapital and of which the City Council of Barcelona, ​​the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the i2CAT foundation, the Technological Center of Telecommunications of Catalonia ( CTTC) and Atos, among other companies. “Barcelona must be one of the big cities in the deployment of 5G technology. It is not only that the new services are tested here, but that they are consolidated in the territory “, clarifies Martín. It is structured in two aspects: first, “possible services are identified and to develop prototypes and pilot tests”, and secondly, “new technology laboratories” are created with the aim of providing services to companies and entrepreneurs, explains the director of the MWCapital. His other great support is the 5G National Observatory.
The Catalan capital is well located, and this public-private partnership has been working intensively since last year. “In addition to being a city with an evident innovative and entrepreneurial tradition, Barcelona has a good ecosystem for new technologies since the 1992 Olympic Games, it has a specialized district like the 22 @ and it can not be forgotten that with The celebration of the MWC is the mobile world capital and between 2014 and 2016 it was the first European capital of innovation “, argues Eduard Martín.

An alliance of woven city with public-private collaboration and that begins to bear its first fruits

“The 5G will be one of the major themes of the MWC this year and I think that will continue for a couple of more editions,” predicts the MWCapital spokesperson. “The change will be transversal, the 5G is a great vehicle for new services and to improve current ones; Can you imagine living a rock concert or an opera from the point of view of artists through immersive reality? ”

“In 2025 there will be 200 million objects connected to the internet, the 5G will have the ability to manage them,” he adds. It is not just a technology 100 times faster than 4G. The change that is coming is deeper, and Barcelona is ready for the challenge.

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Barcelona capital of technology

Barcelona consolidates its position as a technological hub with the arrival of more global firms

Barcelona consolidates, even more, as a technological and innovation hub. The arrival or expansion of activities of up to ten international firms in the last four months gives the Catalan capital a power that has allowed it to attract giants such as Facebook, Lidl or Mediamarkt. They are joined by Amazon‘s biggest bet, which was already present, or the arrival of reference startups in their sectors such as N26 or Chartboost.

Access to talent, quality of life and lower costs are some of the keys that push companies to install their innovation centers in the city.
MediaMarkt, the last example

The last to announce the installation of an innovation center was MediaMarkt. The German trade giant announced earlier this month that it will launch an international technology center in El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona) this year. This tech hub will aim to develop technological solutions for the retail trade.

In June, the German fintech N26 announced that in September it will open its second European headquarters in Barcelona. From these offices, about one hundred engineers will work on the development of the product and the technology of the company. In two or three years, the workforce could double.

May, key month

Looking back a little, May was another key month for business investments in Catalan territory. Several large movements are counted. The first, that of the Argentine satellite company  Satellogic which opened its offices in Barcelona. These offices will be the European headquarters of the company, which plans to create 100 jobs by 2020.

Another great announcement was that of Lidl, who will install its European center of excellence in Plaza Catalunya, right in the center of Barcelona. From there he will provide e-commerce and customer relationship management services at regional level in Europe and will employ 250 people.,
The Australian Moodle will also disembark in the Catalan capital. The company that aims to revolutionize education with its software, intends to create 40 jobs (it will start with ten) and has opted for Barcelona to open its first office outside its country of origin.

Although smaller, the American Chartboost, founded by two Catalans, opened an engineering office in Barcelona at the end of May. Currently, they employ 20 people.

The bet of Facebook

At the beginning of the month, the most mediatic announcement was that of Facebook. The social network made public the opening of a fake news control center that will run the Austrian company Competence Call Center (CCC). The offices will be located in the Torre Glòries, entrance door to 22 @, and will employ 500 people.

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Barcelona capital of luxury

Barcelona stands as capital of luxury, a business that leaves almost 2,000 million

Barcelona capital of luxury

Barcelona continues as the ‘favorite’ luxury consumers, with 32% of sales, reported today at a press conference the president of the Spanish Association of Luxury, Cristina Martin.

The luxury sector in Spain reached in 2015 a turnover of 6,000 million euros, up 15% compared to 2014.

Bilbao has welcomed this morning in the presentation Bilbaína Society Association in a ceremony which was attended by the president of honor, Princess Béatrice d’Orléans, and in which also he participated the designer and member of the institution Teresa Busto .

The breakdown among the cities with the largest presence in this sector has not changed much over the previous year.

So Barcelona continues as ‘favorite’ city of the most affluent consumers, with 32% percent of sales, about 1,920 million if the calculation of the total, followed by Marbella, which accounts for 27% percent of the business is done . Madrid (16%), Ibiza (8.5%), Mallorca (6%), Bilbao (2.8%) and San Sebastian (1.5%) are the following preferred areas to buy.

Spain ranks fifth in the luxury market within the European Union, behind France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

“While most sectors have experienced declines in their levels of production and sales in the luxury sector remain and increase thanks to exports and tourists who visit us,”.

Products ‘gourmet’ and beauty offer the greatest sales volume in Spain, with 55% of the total business, and its turnover has increased by 4.8% over the previous year, stressed Martin.

Also, fashion and accessories, such as jewelry and leather goods, are two sectors that “increasingly become more weight in the luxury ‘made in Spain’ sector,” he stated.

With this call, which brought together eighteen of the sixty companies that make up the entity created in 2010, it has sought to publicize the association and the latest developments in the luxury sector.

The designer has opined that luxury is “excellence, to do the best, with love and effort, either bread or a bag”.

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Pennzoil Spot Ferrari Barcelona

The spectacular race of a Ferrari through the center of Barcelona

Pennzoil Spot Ferrari Barcelona

If Shakira cost him a fine and a good scolding by the City of Barcelona shooting her music video Loca where you saw riding a motorcycle without a helmet and bathing in a fountain, we do not know what will happen when the ad is get viral which just released the oil company Pennzoil car. On the spot you can see how a Ferrari 488 GTB yellow flowing at full speed for various areas of the city. Although the images were recorded by professionals in a closed circuit, as can be seen in the credits of the announcement, the truth is that striking speed reaches the sport in popular areas like the Plaza de Colom, the bridge Porta d’Europa, the Fira de l’Hospitalet or the Ronda Litoral.

The film crew, who decided to choose Barcelona for its international projection, released the announcement last week. In it you can see how a driver takes the Ferrari garage at the Circuit de Catalunya for, then go to different streets to drive recklessly. Skids, impossible curves and sprinting in areas known than the Catalan capital that impress the viewer, so the way they have been recorded as subsequent installation.

The announcement was filmed at night and traffic areas closed to other users. However, it is noteworthy that allow roll ads where are encouraged to bring a sports car to the limit in streets as crowded as the end of La Rambla. In another video released this week, the authors explain how to spot images were filmed and are proud of the result.

Barcelona has become a great set for advertisers around the world seeking in the Catalan capital a sign of easily identifiable identity in Europe.

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Catalan biotechnology

The Catalan Aelix achieved 11.5 million euros to create a vaccine against AIDS

Aelix Therapeutics

Aelix Therapeutics, the company created the first development consortium Hivacat HIV treatments, has secured funding of 11.5 million euros earmarked for their research to create a therapeutic vaccine immunogen -from HTI-, “the first one you can cure infection in a patient. ” In investing, led by Ysios Capital (venture capital specialized in life sciences based in Barcelona), participated the equity manager of La Caixa, Caixa Capital Risc, and the US fund Innovation Johnson & Johnson. Aelix Therapeutics is led by renowned scientists: its founders are Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Maria Gatell, Christian Brander and biotechnology entrepreneur Jordi Naval.

Besides the medical challenge of this operation (more than 36.9 million people have HIV in the world), its characters include a major landmark in science model of excellence in Catalonia: first, a project It involves cutting edge science (Can Ruti and hospital Clinic), local industry (Esteve), public capital (research budgets Generalitat, Government and European Union), philanthropic (Obra Social La Caixa) and private (Ysios, Caixa Capital Risc) has He has been able to attract international capital (Johnson & Johnson). “It is an example of the contribution of all actors in the Catalan scientific industry. This is already happening in Tel Aviv or Boston, and now in Barcelona, ​​”says Josep Lluís Sanfeliu, Ysios Capital partner.

Aelix working on a therapeutic vaccine. That is, “retrains the patient’s immune system. There are a dozen companies in the world with different approaches to it, all in early stages, “says Jordi Naval. “It’s a hot topic, working from different angles, and the data is good.” Aelix vision anticipates fewer side effects in patients and significantly reduced the cost of treatment. “This is our aim, still have to prove it, some time before the product reaches the market,” he added.

With the money earned now, Aelix be reached until 2019 to carry out studies to assess the safety and efficacy in infected patients, equivalent to Phase II clinical study. He has so far tested in animals, and later this year will begin testing in healthy volunteers and patients. “Then, depending on the results, we will think how to complete the trial with the phase III (involving thousands of patients in various countries is different scale), if investors, or a pharmaceutical incorporated”.

Hivacat is a consortium of public-private research created in 2006 by two research centers in more developed AIDS and international reference, the AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa-Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol-Can Ruti (who runs Bonaventura Clotet ) and the Department of Infectious Diseases and AIDS of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Josep Maria Gatell).

In 2009 the Esteve pharmaceutical joined the Obra Social La Caixa and the Generalitat, through the departments of Health and Economy and Coneixement, and the Clinic Foundation. Hivacat coordinator is the researcher Christian Brander, Harvard hired by the Generalitat Icrea program. Since its founding twenty years ago, IrsiCaixa has received 3.1 million euros from the Obra Social La Caixa.

Hivacat has launched eight lines of research addressing major obstacles in the development of HIV vaccines, both preventive and therapeutic. “One of the projects is the therapeutic vaccine candidate HTI. In 2014 came to a point that needed a high volume of investment and decided to form a spin-off that acquires the rights and seeks private investment, “says Naval, companies with experience in the health sector and current director of the Foundation Bosch i Gimpera).

Ysios participated in the development of the business model and has led the investment round (the bottom Ysios Biofund II provides 3.75 million) with Caixa Capital Risc, a regular partner in the main operations of the sector, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation. The operation has been advised by the law firm RCD. Aelix joined his advice to Karen Wagner, Ysios; Jose Antonio Mesa, Caixa Capital Risc; Jordi Naval, co-founder and a representative of JJDC. The company currently has a team of four people in the Parc Cientific Barcelona.

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Mobile World Congress-2016 Fair (GSMA)

Dates from 22nd to 25th February-2016 in Barcelona-Spain

Mobile World Congress, or MWC, is an annual gathering for the mobile industry and related industries, organised by the GSMA, and held in Barcelona, Spain, the Mobile World Capital.

Everyone who is part of the industry is in Barcelona for MWC

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Barcelona e-commerce capital

The power Ecommerce & Tech cluster creating new profiles in this area

E-commerce Barcelona

Since becoming the capital of Mobile in 2011, Barcelona has emphasized its vocation of technological reference in southern Europe. But there is one type of companies engaged in the information and communications technology (ICT) has highlighted over others: those engaged in trade via the Internet. To promote this kind of business, was born about a year ago and a half Ecommerce & Tech Barcelona, a cluster consists of more than 170 partners contributes to the positioning of the city in this sector and finding new professional profiles related to it.

One of the latest additions in the cluster is the Esade business school, who wants to lead talent management that reaches companies of e-commerce. “You have to understand and respond to the new profiles required by the sector,” said the director of the Executive Master in Digital Business ESADE, Xavier Busquets.

The scholar points out that there are three aspects that influence the development of e-commerce companies that have developed in the Catalan capital and the establishment of new companies:

. Ecosystem. A trading company through the network needs a constellation of ancillary companies that can give technological support to grow and consolidate. Thus, the existence of a district like 22 @ is a plus for the city, as firms have implemented in Barcelona technical services of proximity.

. Research and talent. Having ancillary businesses is important, but so is having close centers to research and develop new technologies and ways of working. Also, the training of professionals in the field of ICT allows companies nurture talent nearby, without leaving to look abroad. Busquets highlights the role of complex dedicated to R & D which exist in Catalonia, as well as the wide range of business schools “playing in the first division” globally.

. Administrative collaboration. The commitment of public bodies by new technologies and their implementation in the daily life of citizens, creates a sense of complicity in companies operating in a territory, as it provides them the realization of their projects. In recent years, Barcelona has turned to the incorporation of technological solutions to become a smart city, which is known as a smart city, which has encouraged the development of both indigenous technology companies as subsidiaries of large foreign corporations.

“The technology sector is best placed at present to generate employment,” Busquets says, stressing that training in new technologies is an option for young people who want to enter the labor market, but also for professionals who want to renew their skills.

Ecommerce & Tech Barcelona aims to help triple the number of companies in the sector until 2018, so that a critical mass of hiring more than 15,000 professionals and a sector aggregate revenues, up from € 6,000m will be achieved.

Among companies with e-commerce based in Barcelona include leaders in their field at European level as eDreams, Privalia or LetsBonus, and companies in other sectors that have opted for the distribution of its products through the network, such as financial institutions Banc Sabadell and La Caixa, as well as fashion brands like Mango and Desigual.

 

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Barcelona wants to study the digitization of the city

The Council urges the Mobile World Capital Foundation to conduct a study before the holding of the next Congress on February 22

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At the meeting of the Board of the Foundation Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCB) held on Wednesday, the City Council urged the new leadership, led by Valls, prepared and presented before holding the next Mobile World Congress, which will begin on February 22, a map of the digital divide and the needs of the different districts of Barcelona.

This map aims to evaluate the impact of the MWC be redistributed among all of the city to help improve the education and literacy of citizens and to be the tool with which to develop social and environmental applications.

The mayor of Barcelona and president of the Foundation MWCB Ada Colau has asked to have this map before the next Mobile World Congress (to be held from 22 to 25 February 2016). It has also offered technical support services statistics the City Council in the preparation of this map on the digital divide in the city.

Aleix Valls, new Director

The Board of the Foundation Mobile World Capital Barcelona Aleix Valls was appointed CEO. Valls, mathematician and engineer by profession with a doctorate in fluid mechanics, part of the Mobile World Capital Barcelona from this foundation take shape. The new CEO took part in the initial proposal was that mobile capital Barcelona and is a member of the management team of the organization since it was launched.

Before joining the Foundation MWCB Valls developed his career with projects related to strategic consulting NODE as The Company, like LOOP Consultancy head office in Dubai and managing business development the whole region of North Africa and the Middle averages and Accenture as project manager.

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Michelin star in the outskirts of Barcelona

The Lluerna restaurant in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, held since 2013 the star of the prestigious guide, the only outside the Catalan capital

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Eco leek confit with roasted onion juice under a layer sprinkled with bottarga and bacon. That is the recipe that makes up the only Michelin star in the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona that escapes from the Catalan capital. A varied menu of all the Lluerna Restaurant in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, serves its customers every week since before the grant prestigious culinary guide him in his 2013 edition an award that has kept every year and also retain this 2016, it was learned a few days ago.

“We are a Michelin star atypical” admits the chef Victor Quintillà responsible business with Mar, agronomist with the restaurant and sharing life. The restaurant, located in a quiet area just steps from the oldest part and central Santa Coloma and the Major church, has eight tables and seats about 30 people, but the service is usually around the usual 25. ” In general, everyone asks one of the menus, and each eat 10 dishes. Given this, four or five people are noticed: are 40 or 50 more dishes to cook, “says the ‘wizard’ of Lluerna.

The view is, dimensions and welcoming atmosphere, like a small family business were partly -and still is, to make this restaurant special title that shares with other with dimensions and capacity much larger staff. And the template Lluerna began his meteoric rise with just three workers, a number that in recent years has grown to eight.

A path lunch menu at Michelin

The ride to renew for the fourth time Michelin star has not been short, far from it. Victor adventure and Sea began 15 years ago with a bar-restaurant that were expanded over time and served classic but lovingly prepared lunch menu. The kitchen was his passion and always endeavored to differentiate and innovate. Michelin asked them to include them in your guide and took seven years to receive the Star, but never seek. “I never thought, fell out of the sky”. Never better said.

“Once you’re inside the guide, you know you can come inspectors, and actually come several times a year but you do not realize until they have paid,” explains Quintillà. “People think it’s easy to distinguish them because they come alone, but the fact is that many people come to eat one every day to restaurants like ours. Sometimes, if you want to see the kitchen, identified after the banquet is over, “reveals. “Ultimately, our idea is to have everyone happy, treat everyone as if they were inspectors,” says the chef.

Philosophy and humility Lluerna unchanged. In fact, the price of the card has not risen one euro for four years, although the increase of diners has been remarkable and has allowed them to evolve as a business. They admit that the Star is a “speaker” to put you on the map if you are outside Barcelona, ​​but do not condition their customs Guide. “So far, our kitchen block your criteria, without more,” says Quintillà.
What does a restaurant like this in Santa Coloma?

It’s a question that made them more than once to the responsible place. Interestingly, it is a question posed, say Victor and Mar, the neighbors of the municipality, but not outsiders. 90% of customers are not local Santa Coloma, but Barcelona and surroundings. “The internationalization of Barcelona pushes many quality restaurants but where they can continue meeting in Catalan, for example, and not in English or French. And we are one of the closest they have left, “said the master of the Colomense kitchen.

Raised in the neighborhood of the Fund, both responsible for Lluerna is extremely rooted to Santa Coloma and consider their neighbors should believe the potential of the city, a gastronomic level, in this case, but also in other areas. The commitment to local, so native, is also one of the pillars of the restaurant. This is evident, for example, keeps close collaboration with the Campus Quintillà Food Torribera of the University of Barcelona, ​​a study center where he usually participates through classes and workshops, and looks like a huge bonanza for Santa Coloma.

Beyond affinities with institutions or projects, Lluerna builds on ecological products and proximity your kitchen. Serve Alella DO wines and work with four Maresme farmers to those who ask them specific and differentiated products such as white aubergine, a peculiar vegetable that found some years ago and testaron for months before serving the dish. Every time you give to something, charge a crop and are committed to purchase 100%. “We must concentrate on the quality growing; if we are not careful the product of our land, no one will. They take their chances for you and you must also bid “argues Quintillà who takes refuge in his letter to speak loudly proximity Product: environmentally leek confit with roasted onion juice under a layer sprinkled with bottarga and bacon, a plate whose origin does not exceed the 5 or 10 kilometers radius. And that is worth a Michelin Star.

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Google this week in Barcelona

Google celebrated in Barcelona a campus Express for entrepreneurs

Google Launchpad Barcelona-2015

Barcelona hosts from Monday until Friday the Google launchpad program, the campus Express for entrepreneurs that 13 technology-based startups will benefit the Catalan capital.

After a stint in Tel Aviv, Paris, Berlin, London and Helsinki, the initiative came to Barcelona for the third time and will offer an intensive program of pre-acceleration these 13 startups in collaboration with Incubio, Barcelona Activa, Itnig and connector. The objective of this project, which will be held in Almogàvers Business Factory, is to complement the knowledge of business, expand their networks and advise on the development phases, and mentors will Marc Borràs (Idealist), Silvia Pérez (Scytl) and Jaume Clotet (KPMG).

The 13 participating companies are CreatorStats, Haptter, TimTul, Market in Cloud, Teamhood, myABCKit, IBPindex, Popsail, Doctor eBooking, Woonest, GymByHours, Aloha24 and Adwoow, operating in areas such as sports, health and education.

Google Launchpad has one week and five sessions will be devoted to addressing the product strategy, user experience, marketing and the role of technology. Training in all these areas will be provided by 50 mentors from successful technology companies, consolidated other business segments and entities in orbit startup firms, and up to 250 meetings held ‘one to one’.

He completed the program Google Launchpad a visit to the National Supercomputing Center, attached to the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and features the MareNostrum supercomputer, which uses its 10,240 processors in advance knowledge of subjects such as astronomy, biomedicine and genome sequencing.

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The Mobile World Centre in BCN creates a School of Entrepreneurship

It will provide training in areas such as development of business ideas, identifying opportunities and business plan development

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The Mobile World Centre (MWCentre), driven by the Mobile World Capital Barcelona and Telefonica will launch a school for entrepreneurs with free weekly training from November 18, announced Monday its promoters said in a joint statement.

Entrepreneurs School will provide every Wednesday afternoon workshops, conferences and training sessions focused on the development of business ideas, identifying opportunities, developing the business plan and information about developments or legislative reforms.

The courses are aimed at entrepreneurs and business people who have a viable project for the creation or expansion of business, and in each of the courses may participate up to 20 people.

Attendees are selected according to their concerns, interests and ability to compromise with the demands of the program to “achieve a high utilization of the sessions.”

The initiative comes after the first year of operation of the School of MWCentre, aimed at the general public and has already trained 3,500 people in technology in 420 courses explained.

For the first year of the School of MWCentre, also free and open access to all citizens, has offered activities in various areas: conferences and informative talks on trends and developments; monographic workshops with resolution of questions and debate; and management of devices and applications guided by an expert.

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Environment and cinema come together in FICMA Barcelona

From 5th to 12th November, the International Festival of Environmental Film will screen 120 films in different areas of the city, also in schools

FICMA-Barcelona-2015

With the slogan “Change is underway,” the International Festival of Environmental Film makes Barcelona the world capital of environmental awareness with the projection from 5 to 12 November, 120 films in different areas: the CaixaForum, the CosmoCaixa Cinemas Girona, several universities (University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University Blanquerna) and schools across Catalonia.

The festival, the oldest of its kind in the world, is celebrating the 22nd edition doubles and programming. “We are a film festival that moves and generates awareness, and always committed for social change and promoting environmental education from broadcasting,” said Claudio Lauria, founder and president of FICMA.

FICMA decided to start with two films that combine music, film and environment, with 2 characters: Dr. Jane Goodall awarded the Gold Sun Special Festival 2015, starring the short Trio Jane’s Music of Life in Why is that nature is also music, and the Orchestra of Recycled Instruments Cateura, a band formed by young Paraguayans marginalized areas from which their country has become famous throughout the world to play with instruments recycled materials. The orchestra carries the European premiere of the film harmonic Landfill.

The 2015 edition of the CaixaForum FICMA will close on November 12 with the screening of Last of the Elephant Men, a documentary about the relationship of an indigenous tribe with elephants and how to deal with a desperate fight for survival.

The official, the works competing for the Golden Sun Festival consists of 40 films, documentaries and animated films and fiction, selected from over 1,300 productions 100 countries. These figures have exceeded all records of participation in the history of the Festival. Apart from these films, over 80 films have been chosen also to be part of this ambitious program, divided into two sections: Visions of the World and Small FICMA.

Projections in the classroom

This edition FICMA has created a new section. Each named a Hall Cinema, the festival offers teachers of primary and secondary schools in Catalonia the possibility of a documentary project centers free catalog of works, divided according to age groups and themes, such as climate change, waste, renewable energy, sustainability and water shortages. The aim of this activity is that the environmental documentary genre reaches schools in the form of educational materials and encourage, thereby ecological awareness among young people.

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