Launched in 2019 under EU Horizon 2020 and continued under Horizon Europe as Blue-Cloud 2026, the Blue-Cloud project has developed a single web-based platform to enable researchers to produce, share and reuse research outputs across disciplines and countries. Now, as the project reaches its conclusion, it is aiming to hand over something considerably more durable than a research prototype.
That stable environment is the EOSC Node | European Digital Twin Ocean, a federated open science platform that consolidates harmonised marine data, analytical services, and computational tools within a single access point for the research community.
On June, 22 Science | Business magazine featured an article about the evolution of Blue-Cloud 2026 from a research project into the EOSC Node European DTO. The EOSC Node Europan DTO is also cited within OceanEye, the new initiative to position the EU as the world's leading provider of ocean intelligence, as one of the digital infrastructures needed to operationalise the digital component of marine research.
