UB-Bullipèdia Unit

It is the working team created in the framework of the collaboration agreement between the University of Barcelona and Ferran Adrià, on behalf of elBulliFoundation, for the counseling in the deployment of the “BulliPedia” project.

The UB-Bullipèdia Unit is the academic group responsible for the contents of the BulliPedia, which will also manage the writing of the academic matters complementing the documentary database prepared by the team of Taller el Bulli (the workshop) and elBulliFoundation.

The unit is located on the first floor of the administration building (La Masia) of the UB's Food and Nutrition Torribera Campus, coordinated by a professor of the University of Barcelona appointed by the UB's rector, after consulting with Ferran Adrià, and a representative of elBulliFoundation. The operative responsibility will lie with the director of the Campus.

The coordinator of the Unit will set a management team formed by UB specialists, an assistant secretary and specialists coming from other universities and institutions. The group of specialist who compose the managing team of the UB-Bullipèdia Unit will constitute, in conjunction with contact people in elBulliFoundation and the director of the campus, a board that will have to undertake the objectives stated in the framework agreement.

The BulliPedia is a project promoted from the BulliTaller that represents a key part of elBulliFoundation endeavors and which wants to provide both society at large and the specialized culinary world in particular, by using modern information and communication technologies, with all the quality contents available in the creative base regarding el Bulli's cuisine, the academic core which allow its fully understanding and the entry to other creative worlds and new contributions which can be identified as knowledge innovations.

The maximum responsibility in the BulliPedia project lies with Ferran Adrià and his team by means of elBulliFoundation. Coordination between the UB-Bullipèdia Unit and elBulliFoundation is carried out by Pere Castells, who is part of the academic managing team of the Unit.

With the object to favor a better organization between the structural actors of this project, Ferran Adrià keeps regular meetings with all the specialists and responsibles of the Unit.

The UB members responsible for the monitoring of the agreement activities and the representatives of elBulliFoundation will periodically maintain meetings in order to draft the follow-up report.

The UB-Bullipèdia Unit has to confer academic rigor to the contents introduced in the BulliPedia, as well as to validate the concept upon which the project is based and to always ensure the participation of the best experts and specialists in the prioritized thematic areas of the Unit. It also has to arrange all knowledge linked to haute cuisine on the basis of the initial approach promoted from the information gathered in El Bulli Restaurant.

In order to accomplish the general goal of the project other specific objectives are described, such as: (I) To organize the information research, particularly in regard of cuisine history, the products and the techniques and innovations involved in food processing; (II) To permanently keep a group of renowned specialists who constitute a management team for information gathering and treatment; (III) To validate the information, create the archive of used fonts and channel its integration in the creativity section; (IV) To periodically analyze BulliPedia entries and set the quality control from the academic point of view; (V) To promote participation actions among the best university or high education students and, finally: (VI) To keep informed the specialized food sector community about the evolution of the construction works for the new BulliPedia building.