JERICO-RI

Mission

JERICO-RI is an integrated pan-European multidisciplinary and multi-platform research infrastructure dedicated to a holistic appraisal of coastal marine system changes. It aims to bridge existing continental, atmospheric and open ocean RIs, thus filling a key gap in the ESFRI landscape. JERICO-RI establishes the framework upon which coastal marine systems are observed, analysed, understood and forecasted.
JERICO-RI enables open-access to state-of-the-art and innovative facilities, resources, FAIR data and fit-for-purpose services, fostering international science collaboration.

Collaboration with Blue-Cloud

In April 2022 Blue-Cloud and JERICO signed a Memorandum of Understanding highlighting four main action points for collaboration:

• Contribution to Blue-Cloud Roadmap: JERICO shared experiences and skills for the development of the Blue-Cloud strategic Roadmap. In particular, Laurence Delauney was one of the interviewed stakeholders who brought their vision, input and guidance into the Blue-Cloud Roadmap.
• Usage and exploitation of Blue-Cloud VRE services: Blue-Cloud opened an account for JERICO to build a VLab at the Blue-Cloud VRE and gave the necessary guidance and support for this development and deployment. This pilot will be expanded as part of the Blue-Cloud 2026 project in which JERICO is now represented by several of its members for developing a more elaborated VLab.

• Joint dissemination/communication activities: Laurent Delauney, Ocean Best Practices System and JERICO-RI joined the Round Table “Building and bringing a thriving marine Open Science community into EOSC: Opportunities & outstanding challenges” at the Blue-Cloud final event in Brussels in December 2022.

In the framework of Blue Cloud 2026, two areas of development exploiting the synergies between JERICO-RI and Blue Cloud are being developed.

1. Linking JERICO-CORE and Blue Cloud Research Environment: This is being developed in WP5, particularly in task 5.2,  by the team from SOCIB, 
2. Implementation of a Virtual Lab specifically dedicated to exploring the interaction between JERICO-RI and Blue Cloud (Blue Cloud 2026 WP4)

The Integration of Coastal Ocean Observations along Europe (ICOOE) Virtual Lab was proposed to take advantage of the interactions between JERICO-RI and BlueCloud. In particular, by testing the concept of a Virtual Lab that uses the expertise of JERICO-RI partners in coastal ocean processes and that explores the access to the different data sets and related information generated by JERICO-RI. The Vlab is being developed by a set of partners (IH, SOCIB and IEEE) which are also partners in JERICO-RI. The ICOOE Vlab incorporates different tools for processing, exploration and integration of the coastal ocean data. These are based on the specific expertise of the 3 above-mentioned JERICO-RI partners in the coastal ocean environment, processes and observation strategies. This expertise can help to shape the different tools provided by the Vlab in order to meet the specific requirements of the users, with relevance to the research community and the Blue Economy actors. While the Vlab is being designed to explore the datasets that are available in the different data aggregators, the direct connection with the JERICO-RI community also opens the possibility of including specific observations for the coastal ocean that are not yet part of these aggregators.

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