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• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 Final Conference Report: From Blue-Cloud to the EOSC Node | European Digital Twin Ocean

Europe’s ambition to restore and protect its oceans and waters relies increasingly on open, interoperable, and trusted digital infrastructures capable of transforming data into actionable knowledge.

Over the past years, Blue-Cloud has played a foundational role in federating marine and environmental data, services, and analytical tools across Europe. Through close alignment with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Blue-Cloud has demonstrated how cloud-based, open science environments can support ocean research, innovation, and policy making.

• Read more about Standards, best practices, challenges and incentives for maximising the use of ocean data in the Atlantic region

The need for a change in culture (and curricula), stimulating standards adoption via engaging with best practice and exemplary use cases, further connecting ocean-observing data collection efforts and unlocking archives with historical data: the outcomes of the workshop organised by Blue-Cloud on June 3rd engaged experts across the Atlantic in a dialogue to identify needs and challenges of data sharing ‘pole to pole’ and gave some recommendations towards setting up an Atlantic Data space for the ocean

• Read more about Applying machine learning methods to ocean patterns and ocean regimes indicators

The global challenges that humankind is called to face highlight the need for establishing innovative algorithms and technologies to enable the transition from data to knowledge, and foster the consolidation of a science-informed decision-making process. 

For a successful implementation of this value chain, the development of science-based algorithms clearly represents a crucial phase. We will analyse the latest updates on the application of machine learning methods to ocean patterns and the ocean regimes indicators in the context of Blue-Cloud.

• Read more about Developing zoo & phytoplankton EOV products in Blue-Cloud

As highlighted by Principle 5 of Ocean Literacy, the ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems, which make up the vast majority of all life on our planet and are crucial for biological cycles as well as for economies all around the world.

• Read more about Monitoring aquaculture activities through high-resolution satellite images

The ocean is tightly connected to our well-being, providing a wealth of resources fundamental to human sustenance and global food security, as also affirmed in the sixth principle of Ocean Literacy. Aquaculture offers precious opportunities for us to reduce hunger and improve nutrition while also generating economic growth and tackling poverty.

• Read more about Federating knowledge on stocks and fisheries in Blue-Cloud with the GRSF

The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems. It supports human life, provides food, and sustains countless ecosystem services. As highlighted by the sixth principle of Ocean Literacy, our existence is inextricably interconnected with the ocean, and fisheries are a prime example of this relationship.

• Read more about Exploring and mapping plankton genomics data with Blue-Cloud

Recent metagenomic studies have revealed that marine plankton is far more diverse than previously thought (Carradec et al. 2018, Salazar et al. 2019, Duarte et al. 2020), with hundreds of thousands of genetically distinct taxa and more than 116 million genes documented for eukaryotic plankton and 47 million genes for prokaryotes. However, the taxonomy and/or function of more than half of the planktonic ‘omic’ sequences is still unknown.