country or a person, on grounds of race, religion, politics…. is incompatible with….the Olympic movement" (-Olympic Charter). FACT-A: • The Athens Olympics (2004) cost 14,6 billion US.D, mostly spent on sport facilities, designed for 'peak time utilization', to remain underutilized after the event. FACT-B: • More than 80% of world nations are unable to compete for the privilege of hosting any international mega-sport event, thus condemned to the status of passive participants in this grand human saga. It is a sort of discrimination, on economical-social-political grounds, and therefore a critical flaw and a stain on the Olympic Ethos. The solution The suggested idea-concept is to reduce drastically the economic burden of construction, recruitment and employment of the required technical task-force and the involved real-estate costs. All that by constructing Floating-transportable "Olympic Facilities", capable of traversing the seas and operating while moored in the proximity of major coastal hosting cities, to be rented to the interested hosting countries of mega-sport events (Olympics included) for the duration of the event. FACT-C: • ~85% of world countries border on marine environments with an access to the world's ocean system. The suggested solution (the only one to exist so far) entails complex design and engineering considerations, operational logistics and economic manipulations. The envisaged fleets, with mega-stadiums, Olympic villages, auxiliary sport facilities, communication-media modules …etc, with a span life of 20÷30 years, may serve up to 500 events or so, and sustain profitable inter-event activities, thus promising to be a very viable sustainable economic enterprises. For the hosting country, with renting for the duration of the event only, it can make the difference between "to host or not to host"…

Describe the current stage of your initiative and your implementation plan over the next three years

The initiative and the vision sustaining it are in early evolutionary stage. At present I have to build the initiative's self- assurance through collecting speculative responses of respected critiques and relevant opinion shapers and moralists, of professional knowledgeable engineers and economists, embracing the multidisciplinary fields of related facts.
After presenting the vision and some thoughts concerning its practicality: in Moscow-personal exhibition-2003, in sport conferences: Jerusalem (2003) and Copenhagen (2005), and in Structural Design related conferences in Bucharest and Warsaw (2005) and Beijing (2006) and getting some press coverage, all with very encouraging responses,It is ripe for entering its preliminary Research and Development stage.
The challenge is enormous because of its multidisciplinarity and complexity, with issues ranging from Geography to Environmental studies; from Economy to Sociology and Global (sport) Politics; from Architecture and Urbanism (floating or not); to many Engineering and Technology aspects (structural, marine, environmental) Transportation and Communication Media; Logistics, Maintenance and last but not least-ocean going mega-vessel design.
The prize money will have to facilitate the creation of a multidisciplinary and accomplished think-tank to generate a staged research program into the specified areas and mobilize the academic research environment and resources (doctoral and masters students) for the promotions of the initiative and preliminary design of all the incorporated modules, after due programmatic processing.
the prize money will enable to attract some complementary resources which are available at the institute.
During the next three years and on the basis of the upcoming research and design results, I intend to start communicating the idea to the various Olympic, Unesco and other cultural authorities and some enterprising economic bodies which may be instrumental in promoting the vision and the initiative.

Describe how your strategy meets the entry criteria ("What We're Looking For")

The initiative requires a vision to be shared by many, based on moral-ethical convictions that for the sake of promoting harmony among nations, friendship and eventually peace, we must respect the aspirations for self expression and self esteem of the underprivileged.
Competitive sport is a human trait, capable of promoting mutual respect among individual's societies, nations and races.
Ensuring affordability and accessibility to the games
as an active participator and contributor,
on equal terms is essential for maintaining the Olympic legacy and the ethos of competitive sport
and that is the meaning of :
"making the world work for 100% of humanity."
The Olympic (modular) fleets, realized as a viable-sustainable economic enterprise on the basis of geographic-regional associations, together with their professional-technical crews to be rented to the interested hosting parties-authorities-countries, for the duration of the events, is going to cut down drastically the involved costs, thus making it affordable to the rest of the underprivileged humanity to actively contribute to the evolving global saga.
Collectively we can dream the vision into reality.

Describe the qualifications and experience of you and/or your team and your ability to execute your implementation plan

Qualifications and experience; ability to execute the initiative

1. I'm an Architect, D.Sc and Professor emeritus of the faculty of Architecture & Town Planning of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (I.I.T), with a long academic and professional experience. Served for eight years (between 1977 and 1993) as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture.
Main research activity is in the fields of Structural Morphology and Space Structures; Industrialized Product and Building Systems (with some realized projects); Urban Design-An Alternative Urban Design Paradigm -The Multi-Layer City; Development In The Marine Environment, The Israeli Marine Option, which happened to influence the Israeli policy toward the issue.
Was awarded many academic and professional prizes, among them: The Pioneers Award for "Distinguished Contribution in the field of Space Structures" (2002), by the Space Structures Centre of Surrey Univ. (G.B) and IASS
2. The Technion, I.I.T, is a dense and energized interdisciplinary academic environment, with very qualified personnel and eager student population, which will enable an orchestrated research and development effort once the funding is realized. Some colleagues from Civil Engineering, Marine Engineering, Urban Economics and Architecture were already involved to various degrees in the ideation stage. And still, no illusions: we will need the help and moral and funding support of many others, until sport politics will embrace the vision as their own.