Hack the ocean, shape the future – join the Blue-Cloud 2026 Hackathon!
Hackathon pilots
The Blue-Cloud Hackathon (7-9 February 2022) invited marine scientists & researchers, data scientists, ICT experts, innovators, students, and anyone passionate about the Ocean to explore and test Blue-Cloud: the new, Open Science platform for the marine domain offering a wealth of data, analytical tools and computing power to support you in developing solutions for a safe, healthy, productive, predictive and transparent Ocean.
Participants were challenged to develop applications that contribute to improving knowledge of marine ecosystems; support the transition to a greener, blue economy; advance Ocean literacy; and/or enhance international collaboration towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030. Teams were grouped into categories and faced different hackathon challenges.
Find here the teams that participated in the challenge and discover the people behind, the ideas, topics and video pitches realised.
More information about the outcomes of the hackathon can be found here. Check the 2022 Blue-Cloud Hackathon official webpage for more information about the challenges and hackathon structure.
The Particle Trackers
AqADAPT
PerfeCt - Performance of Aquaculture under Climate change
WILDCARD - Hack the Blue-Cloud! - Challenge 4
Marine Wildlife Trackers
Wildlife Tracker for Oceans: real-time assessment for marine fauna habitat with Phytoplankton hotspots
The "Wildlife Tracker for Oceans" is a geo-framework dedicated to the real-time assessment of Marine Protected Areas - MPAs.
Challenge: 1A - UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN
Ocean Warning
DataDolphin
DataDolphin - fast & smart marine risk prediction toolkit
DataDolphin developed a user-friendly toolkit that consists of three parts: a data analysis tool that reveals the general connections between data points, a prediction tool that forecasts future trends, and a playful platform that allows anyone to explore marine data in an intuitive and engaging way.
Challenge: 3A - PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS
aquamap
TeamCoral
Impact atlas of Mediterranean aquaculture farming and solutions
<FEEDING THE WORLD - Challenge: 2A>
AtlantECO hacc-UP
All-Atlantic Plankton Diversity & Distribution Mapper
Use AtlantECO and BlueCloud plankton distribution data to develop autonomous species distribution modelling tools and map aspects of the Atlantic Ocean ecosystem.
Hackathon Challenge: 1A - UNDERSTANDING THE OCEAN
Marine Analyst
Black swan finder
NFT-based model to visualize and predict marine ecosystems
What is the tool? A dynamic real-time based 3d virtual marine ecosystem made by NFT.
Why this tool? The ecosystem is dynamic and having real-time data is necessary for understanding the current situation of the ecosystem.
<PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS - Challenge: 3B>
EutroWarn
Early Warning System for Severe Eutrophication
<PREDICTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS - Challenge: 3A>
Cavorit Ocean T(win)
BLUE T(WIN)
The knowledge of modern societies is T-shaped: Expert knowledge is deeply hidden within vertical silos of scientific communities, while on a horizontal layer, public debate and insights are often remarkably self-referential. The effort of connecting sciences under a paradigm of multidisciplinarity and big data might increase this gap.
GoPlankton
Hack the data
Hack the data: Can current data identify the drivers of plankton’s diversity in the Atlantic?