The pilot Blue-Cloud aims at federating the 10 leading European blue data infrastructures, providing the framework for multidisciplinary collaboration.
The Blue-Cloud consortium published a position paper on EOSC summarising the project's views, messages, and contributions, for the benefit of the EOSC Governance, the EC, and all other parties involved in the development of the EOSC.
The European Commission released the European Strategy for Data, announcing the creation of nine Common European data spaces addressing specific sectors. What is its relevance to Blue-Cloud?
The latest edition of the ENVRI week took place in Dresden, 3-7 February 2020. The event gathered together over 110 participants from Environmental Research Infrastructures. Blue-Cloud was presented at the event by MARIS in a poster session focussed on related initiatives.
The workshop “Improving the Knowledge of our Oceans and Seas and bringing them closer to citizens”, jointly organised by Blue-Cloud with AANChOR, AORAC-SA and AtlantOS took place in Brussels in co-location with the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum. The event gathered over 90 experts from around the Atlantic to discuss the benefits of establishing a global “Blue-Cloud”.
Our half-day workshop entitled “Improving the Knowledge of our Oceans and Seas and bringing them closer to citizens”, co-located with the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum, takes place on the 5th of February 2020 in Brussels. It brings together key players and experts from the blue economy around the Atlantic.
The public consultation towards the Blue-Cloud Strategic Roadmap to 2030 has reached an important milestone: contributions have been gathered from nearly 100 stakeholders to shape policy recommendations for evolving Blue-Cloud as a thematic, cloud-based Open Science ecosystem for marine research into the future.
The EU-funded H2020 project Blue-Cloud contributed to advancing the interoperability of fisheries data. The FAO FIRMS Global Tuna Atlas will support and improve fisheries management across the globe.
Our impressions on the first Digital Ocean Forum held in Paris on 20-21 April, hosted by Mercator Ocean International, introducing the Digital Twin Ocean.
Blue-Cloud experts from VLIZ, GHER-Uliege, CNRS, Sorbonne University, EMBL-EBI, CMCC, IFREMER, FAO, CLS, have prepared a list of brief articles explaining what researchers can do within our current Virtual Labs.
CORDIS has recently released a synergy info pack for the "Restore our ocean and waters" EU Mission, and Blue-Cloud was included in the list of projects to watch.
The Blue-Cloud Hackathon brought together nearly 150 participants from a diverse community of marine science practitioners, computer scientists and innovators to test Blue-Cloud's web-based ecosystem of Open Science services and resources to address selected Ocean challenges. Three teams were awarded for their work towards improving aquaculture management and studying wildlife interactions.