Wednesday, December 10 – IDEC SPORT and GROUPE IDEC alongside the Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute with The Famous Project CIC and Richard Mille
As the maxi-trimaran and its sailors skirt Brazil while waiting for the low-pressure system, it’s an opportunity to look back at another scientific mission that has helped us better understand how the body and brain adapt to the most demanding conditions.
For those who are not familiar with it, the ICM is a research center where patients, doctors, and researchers work together with the aim of treating and, one day, curing diseases of the brain and spinal cord.
The long-standing commitment of our two entities is very important in this fight, which requires courage, daring, and tenacity.
It was therefore only natural that, as part of the Jules Verne Trophy challenge that Alexia Barrier and her seven sailors embarked on aboard the maxi-trimaran IDEC SPORT, GROUPE IDEC continued its longstanding support for the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute.
The crew of The Famous Project CIC is participating in a unique scientific protocol to better understand how the body and brain resist, adapt, or become exhausted: a central question in a transatlantic race or global challenge of this type.
Monitored and trained by Thomas Andrillon, a researcher at the Brain Institute specializing in sleep and alertness management, each member wears a device capable of measuring brain activity during wakefulness and sleep to better understand the management of the sleep-wake cycle in extreme sailing.
The Famous Project CIC continues its journey south along the Brazilian coast. Very soon, the girls should hook into a weather system that should propel them towards the Cape of Good Hope.
Follow the adventure on IDEC SPORT’s social media and via the comprehensive map =>> https://trimaran-idec.geovoile.com/julesverne/2025/viewer/
