Over the course of 42 months starting in January 2023, the EU-funded Blue-Cloud 2026 project aims at further evolving the pilot Blue-Cloud project into a federated European ecosystem to deliver FAIR and open data as well as analytical services for research of oceans, EU seas, and coastal and inland waters. It is developing a thematic marine extension to the European Open Science programme (EOSC) in support of the Green Deal, Destination Earth, the EU Mission "Restore our Oceans and Water by 2030" and UN SDGs, ultimately providing a core data service for the Digital Twin of the Ocean initiative.
Blue-Cloud operates in the framework of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), and its Service platform features a variety of services that can be used for undertaking world-class science via the EOSC ecosystem. By working closely with long-term EU marine data services (i.e., EMODnet), and research data infrastructures (i.e., EuroArgo, SeaDataNet, Ecotaxa and others), the Blue-Cloud 2026 project introduces a federated model, offering e-infrastructure services (computing, storage, analytics, SSO, AAI, generic service), a data discovery service (10M+ datasets and products from European marine infrastructures), and research intensive virtual labs, embedded in a VRE open to any users with federated identity. In the Blue-Cloud federation, Blue research infrastructures (RIs) and other data and service infrastructures and technological providers make their services available to the community via agreed, FAIR formats and technology and standards and best practices supporting data exchange and interoperability, that EOSC recommends or accepts.
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Blue-Cloud 2026 is co-coordinated by CNR, Trust-IT & MARIS, counting on a core team of partners such as VLIZ, Ifremer, MOI, Seascape Belgium. Overall it mobilises a solid, multidisciplinary, committed team of 40 partners from 13 EU countries. The Blue-Cloud 2026 project is funded by the Horizon Europe programme under the Grant Agreement Grant agreement N. 101094227.
