By working closely with long-term EU marine data services (i.e., EMODnet, Copernicus), and research data infrastructures (i.e., EuroArgo, SeaDataNet, Ecotaxa and others), the Blue-Cloud project is offering to the marine community a state-of-the-art cyber platform designed to implement an incubator of new research ideas, supporting scientists and researchers in designing, testing, and evaluating innovative computational analytical flows that extract valuable knowledge from diverse datasets, while accelerating open science and collaborative research in ocean sustainability.
The Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) offers a comprehensive environment for sharing data, tools, and knowledge, fostering innovation and discovery. By integrating advanced analytical tools, robust computing resources, and diverse datasets from observations and models, the platform empowers researchers to tackle complex ocean challenges and enhances the scientific community's ability to understand and predict marine phenomena while fostering the development of cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.
The Blue-Cloud innovation potential is explored and unlocked by dedicated demonstrators as Virtual Labs (VLabs) co-designed with top-level marine researchers to demonstrate the power of the Blue-Cloud Open Science platform. The objective is to deploy a wide range of custom methods and technologies, such as softwares and algorithms, using cloud-based services in the Blue-Cloud VRE. The VLabs will also bring new data types, such as currents or carbon data, and will also be able to incorporate the Data Discovery and Access (DD&AS) Service to their workflows.
This deliverable provides guidelines on how to use each of the VLabs developed during the Blue- Cloud 2026 project. Users are encouraged to discover and understand the services and run them as proposed by the developers.
The document is structured by sections for each of the VLabs, from VLab one to five. Please note that this document will be improved throughout the project duration and with the input of users, so feel free to reach out if you have any comments or suggestions.