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EC 2020 Strategic Foresight Report: The role of the blue economy

The European Commission adopted its first-ever Strategic Foresight Report, aiming to identify emerging challenges and opportunities to better steer the European Union’s strategic choices. Let's discover why the report is relevant to Blue-Cloud.  

Vote for Blue-Cloud in the latest survey on EU missions for healthy oceans!

EU missions aim to deliver solutions to some of our greatest societal challenges, such as cancer, adaptation to climate change, healthy oceans, climate-neutral cities and healthy soil and food. You can vote for Blue-Cloud's proposal until 14 September 2020.

Sustainable development of aquaculture: EU consultation on new guidelines & Blue-Cloud webinar on aquaculture demonstrator

The farming of fish and seafood, also known as aquaculture, in the EU has been subject to a set of EU-wide strategic guidelines, which set out standard priorities and targets to ensure the sector is run and developed sustainably. The EC has launched a public consultation about the new guidelines to be implemented late 2020.

CNR and CINECA collaborate to further integrate the Blue-Cloud infrastructure

Blue-Cloud partners CNR and CINECA activated a new collaboration aimed at extending the D4Science infrastructure with a computational site hosted at CINECA.

EU targeted consultation on International Ocean Governance

The European Commission and the European External Action Service have launched a targeted consultation to assess development needs and options for the EU’s International Ocean Governance agenda. Have your say until 15 October 2020!

Aquaculture Monitor - A Blue-Cloud demonstrator

Sustainability and security of seafood systems are extremely relevant issues for policy-makers, especially in coastal areas which heavily depend on fishing in terms of sustenance and economy. The demonstrator “Aquaculture Monitor” shows how Blue-Cloud services can support data-related aspects of the monitoring of marine cage aquaculture.

Atlantic Action Plan 2.0: Fostering a sustainable blue economy and the EU Green Deal

Last week, the European Commission adopted an updated action plan for a sustainable, resilient and competitive blue economy in the EU Atlantic area, covering France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.

Open Consultation for the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

The EOSC Executive Board is launching an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation will run for 6 weeks over the summer, closing 31st August and will be in the form of an online questionnaire available on the EOSCSecretariat.eu website. Have your say and help us shape the future of the EOSC!

Open consultation on the priorities of the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda to begin 20th July

On 20th July, the EOSC Executive Board will open a public consultation aimed at defining the priorities of the future Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). It will take place on the EOSCsecretariat.eu website and will run for 6 weeks.

Regenerating our ocean and waters by 2030 - Interim Report now online

The Mission Board on Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters recently published an interim report, proposing to regenerate the European ocean and waters by 2030.

Towards an All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance: EC report now online!

The official report of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum held in Brussels in February 2020 was published by the European Commission. Read about the event and Blue-Cloud's contributions!

The EU Blue Economy Report 2020

In June, the European Commission published the EU Blue Economy Report 2020, an overview of all economic sectors related to oceans and the coastal environment across the EU. What is its relevance to Blue-Cloud?