The workshop "Improving the knowledge of our oceans and seas and bringing them closer to citizens", co-located with the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum in Brussels, was centred on a better understanding the international data/e-infrastructure landscape and the needed federation efforts to accelerate the establishment of a global “Blue-Cloud”.
The first Blue-Cloud Technical Committee Meeting (TCom) is held in Amsterdam from 22nd to 23rd of January 2020, bringing together the leaders of the Blue-Cloud technical development tasks.
EuroSea's kick-off meeting took place in Brussels on 27-29 November 2019, organized by GEOMAR, RBINS, and EuroGOOS. Blue-Cloud was presented on this occasion as well.
The EOSC Symposium is one of the largest EOSC events. The event saw three intense and stimulating days for all stakeholders to contribute to discussion on the implementation of the EOSC. The EOSC Symposium represents a fundamental milestone in the EOSC roadmap. It builds on the legacy of the former Digital Infrastructure for Research (DI4R) event series and the EOSC Stakeholder Forum events organised by the EOSCPilot project.
Marine and inland fisheries today are at an important crossroads. They make a crucial and growing contribution to food, nutrition and livelihood security. The objective of this Symposium was to identify pathways to strengthen the science and policy interplay in fisheries production, management and trade, based on solid sustainability principles for improved global outcomes on the ground.
The 3-day meeting involved representatives from the 20 partner organisations in order to get to know each other and what assets they have, to share a common understanding of the project vision and activities, to agree on management procedures & collaboration tools and to plan the next six months activities.
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.