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A Digital Twin of the Ocean by 2027: Impressions from the Digital Ocean Forum
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.
What can marine researchers do with the Blue-Cloud Virtual Labs?
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.
Blue-Cloud included in CORDIS "Restore our ocean and waters" synergy info pack
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.
Innovative aquaculture and marine wildlife tracking ideas awarded at the Blue-Cloud Hackathon
The Blue-Cloud Hackathon brought together nearly 150 participants from a diverse community of marine science practitioners, computer scientists and innovators to test Blue-Cloud's web-based ecosystem of Open Science services and resources to address selected Ocean challenges. Three teams were awarded for their work towards improving aquaculture management and studying wildlife interactions.
IODE and Blue-Cloud, a learning experience - An interview with Peter Pissierssens
IODE and Blue-Cloud can learn from each other and collaborate to share best practices for ocean data in order to become more relevant to society. Our interview with Peter Pissierssens.
Blue-Cloud provides cross-domain marine data with EUDAT's B2FIND
Blue-Cloud currently uses EUDAT’s B2FIND service to ingest and publish metadata referencing Blue-Cloud’s data in B2FIND's interdisciplinary discovery portal. Discover the benefits of exploiting this service!
SeaDataNet awarded with the "Les Etoiles De l'Europe" Trophy!
The SeaDataNet project, one of the initiatives Blue-Cloud has been in contact with to establish synergy, won the prestigious prize "Les Etoiles de l'Europe". Read more!
Register for the Blue-Cloud Hackathon and win prizes!
Gear up at your own pace over a 3-week ideation journey, join a 3-day virtual hackathon and win up to €60,000 in prizes! Register now for the Blue-Cloud hackathon.
Setting sail with the Blue-Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service
The beta version of the Blue-Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service is online! Test this framework for finding, discovering and accessing marine environmental data and data products, built upon existing European marine data repositories, infrastructures and data services, and made possible thanks to the sharing and input of expertise and best practice from key actors in the European marine data space.
Fostering collaborative Open Science in the marine domain - New Blue-Cloud video online!
The Blue-Cloud consortium has produced a new video to introduce the infrastructures involved in this journey, as well as the core services developed to foster Open Science in the marine domain, in support of a sustainable blue economy. Watch it now!
Nourishing Blue Economy and Sharing Ocean Knowledge: Blue-Cloud contributes to policy brief with key ocean science initiatives
Blue-Cloud is one of ten innovative EU projects to build ocean observation systems that provide input for evidence-based management of the ocean and the Blue Economy, which have joined forces in the strong cluster ‘Nourishing Blue Economy and Sharing Ocean Knowledge’. Under the lead of the EuroSea project, the group published a joint policy brief listing recommendations for sustainable ocean observation and management. The policy brief was presented to the European Commission on 15 October 2021.
Blue-Cloud strengthening interoperability with EOSC through the EGI federated login
The Blue-Cloud has been made accessible via the EGI federation of identities, one of the main logins for the wider EOSC ecosystem, allowing Blue-Cloud users to use their credentials to access any other EOSC services such as the EOSC Portal.