The IV OBPS workshop is coming! This session will support the Ocean Best Practices System in better fulfilling its mission and vision, thanks to the cooperation of user groups and ocean practitioners.
Don't miss the opportunity to join this incredible event!
The first Blue-Cloud webinar took place on 19 June at 11:00 CEST, with a focus on the five pilot demonstrators which are developing domain-specific Virtual Laboratories for the marine research community.
The Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit on World Oceans Day (8 June) will celebrate the key role that Ocean Literacy plays in transforming knowledge into action for healthy oceans and seas. During the Summit, the European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius launches the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy.
Blue-Cloud joined this webinar organised by the Phidias HPC initiative on the 4th of June 2020, introducing the benefits of FAIR data, cloud services, and HPC to the European marine research community.
The physical EGU General Assembly 2020 intended to take place in Vienna was transformed into a week-long series of online activities, EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online.
As the 7th EMB Forum on Big Data in Marine Science was postponed to October due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the European Marine Board held an online session on the 29th of April.
Bioengineer Cécile Nys from IFREMER joined the Phidias HPC webinar on the 13th of February, with a focus on the long-term improvement of archiving and cloud services in marine science. Making ocean data accessible and reusable is a core aspect of the Blue-Cloud project.
EMSO ERIC, the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory Research Infrastructure Consortium, organised the "EMSO Conference: preparing for UN Decade of Ocean Science" in Athens on 12-14 February.
The All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum gathered political and community leaders, researchers, industry, Youth Ambassadors and inspirational speakers from along and across the Atlantic, to showcase the results of cooperation and their impact on citizens.
A joint hybrid workshop at EMD 2022 organised by the H2020 projects EuroSea and Blue-Cloud and the EC marine data service EMODnet showcased success stories and use cases from the European (and Atlantic) marine data landscape, and charted the way forward for closer collaboration on ocean observation and marine data in the context of the EU Green Deal.
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.