Project deliverable

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D5.5 Blue-Cloud VRE federated infrastructures 2nd release

The Blue-Cloud initiative, launched in 2019 under the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, set out to create a federated ecosystem for marine data and services within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The follow-up project, Blue-Cloud2026, is advancing this vision by transforming the initial pilot into a sustainable, scalable and operational European ecosystem that delivers FAIR data and analytical services for research on oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D4.4 VLabs Users Handbook V2

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 collaborative Blue-Cloud 2026 project is offering to the marine community a state-of-the-art Virtual Research Environment designed to implement an incubator of new research ideas, models and services, 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 collabo

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D6.6 Blue Cloud Hackathon 2025 Report

The Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2025 is a collaborative event organised in the framework of Work Package 6 ("Outreach, Engagement, and Education) of the Horizon Europe "Blue-Cloud 2026" project, which aims to promote and disseminate Key Exploitable Results (KER) stemming from the project to key target audiences. The main objective of the hackathon is to bring together scientists, researchers, developers, and innovators to explore and test the open science environment evolved by the Blue-Cloud 2026 project and its related services.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D5.4 Blue Cloud VRE Common Services 2nd Release

This deliverable documents the design principles and software architecture characterising the release and development of the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (VRE) common services, namely the analytics computing framework, the catalogue framework, the storage framework and the enabling framework components. This report is the second of two versions, each one describing the design associated with a specific version of the VRE. This deliverable D5.4 provides the updated and extended version of D5.1 "Blue-Cloud VRE Common Services 1st Release" [8].

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D7.3 Joint Exploitation Plan

This document delivers the Blue-Cloud 2026 Joint Exploitation Plan. It outlines the exploitation strategy, objectives and measures that will be deployed to support the long-term exploitation of the results stemming from the HE Blue-Cloud 2026 project, jointly by Consortium Partners. The Plan focuses on the exploitation of the Blue-Cloud 2026 services and assets as a synergetic digital ecosystem, encompassing and connecting identified Key Exploitable Results, namely:

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D2.5 Established BDI sub setting APIs and Data Lakes Documentation Report

A one-year-long consultation and prototyping phase has resulted in concrete plans for establishing data subsetting capabilities in the Blue-Cloud ecosystem and implementing that vision by deploying a series of data lakes at the Blue-Cloud VRE for data repositories and data collections in support of VRE users and developers of the WorkBenches.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D4.3 Vlabs Users Handbook V1

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.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D7.2 Individual Exploitation Plans of Virtual Labs

Blue-Cloud 2026 builds upon the pilot Blue-Cloud project, which established a pilot cyber platform that provides researchers access to multi-disciplinary datasets from observations, analytical services, and computing facilities essential for blue science.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D6.4 Blue Cloud Stakeholders engagement and synergies 1st report

Since the launch of Blue-Cloud 2026, the project team has proactively worked on establishing strong partnerships and synergies with other projects and initiatives in the Open Science and DTO environments, aiming to create long-lasting relationships to attain the Blue-Cloud's long-term objectives. The team strongly believes that through collaboration and cooperation with initiatives operating in similar fields, the value of Blue Cloud services increases.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D5.3 Blue Cloud VRE federated infrastructures 1st release

The Blue-Cloud project started in 2019, under the H2020 EU's research and innovation funding programme, with the aim of creating a European Open Science Cloud for marine data. This involves federating data and e-infrastructures to provide data products and technologies as open science resources for the wider marine research community. Since 2023, the Horizon Europe Blue-Cloud 2026 follow-up project has been advancing this pilot ecosystem into a Federated European Ecosystem.