Project deliverable

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D7.1 Individual Exploitation Plans of Workbenches

Essential Ocean Variables (EOV) and Essential Biodiversity variables (EBV) are critical for the analysis of the state of the environment and for numerical simulations, which can now be exposed to wider audiences and be used to accelerate Ocean knowledge and deepen our understanding of the trade-offs of human activities in the marine environment thanks to the potential brought by ongoing efforts to co-construct the European Digital Twin Ocean (DTO).

• Read more about D3.1 First release of aggregated and harmonised EOV datasets

The objective of WP3 is to design, build, deploy and test analytical pipelines for generating highly qualified and harmonised data collection for some selected Essential Ocean and Biological Variables (EOV and EBV respectively). These pipelines are called 'workbenches'. For the physical and eutrophication workbenches, these resulting data collections will integrate and harmonise different datasets from various Blue Data Infrastructures (BDIs). This includes cleaning the data collection from duplicates and applying additional quality control (QC) checks.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D5.2 VRE Operation Report

The Horizon Europe Blue-Cloud initiative started in 2019 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 Blue-Cloud 2026 follow-up project has sought to further evolve this pilot ecosystem into a Federated European Ecosystem, offering FAIR and open data and analytical services crucial for advancing research on oceans, EU seas, and coastal and inland waters.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D6.2 Communication, Dissemination, Outreach and Education Plan, 2nd release

The main goal of Blue-Cloud 2026 WP6 is to promote and disseminate the project ambition, on-going activities and Key Exploitable Results (KERs) to the identified list of key stakeholder groups throughout content-rich communication activities, via multi-channel user-centric campaigns. This is done through consistent and content-rich communication activities, by using multiple integrated communication tools. The success of this mission is highly dependent on a continuous interaction with all WPs.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D2.6 Tuning between Blue-Cloud Data Lakes and DTO development, 1st report

The European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO) initiative, announced by President von der Leyen, aims to harness digital technology to provide comprehensive knowledge of the ocean. The European Digital Twin of the Ocean seeks to provide an innovative set of user-driven, interactive and decision-making tools backed by the best science and data. Its core development is underway with the European Union (EU) funding through the European Digital Twin Ocean (EDITO) R&D projects.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D2.6 Tuning between Blue-Cloud Data Lakes and DTO development, 1st report

The European Digital Twin Ocean (EU DTO) initiative, announced by President von der Leyen, aims to harness digital technology to provide comprehensive knowledge of the ocean. The European Digital Twin of the Ocean seeks to provide an innovative set of user-driven, interactive and decision-making tools backed by the best science and data. Its core development is underway with the European Union (EU) funding through the European Digital Twin Ocean (EDITO) R&D projects.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D2.4 BDI sub-setting APIs and Data Lakes - Concept and Specifications Report

The Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service (DD&AS) is one of the core components of the Blue-Cloud technical framework. It facilitates the discovery and retrieval of marine data sets and data products from blue data infrastructures (BDIs), such as key EU infrastructures such as EMODnet, SeaDataNet, EurOBIS, and more, for external users in stand-alone mode. It also interacts with the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment, the component federating computing platforms and analytical services, for populating the VRE data pool.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D5.1 Blue Cloud VRE Common Services 1st 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 first of two versions, each one describing the design associated with a specific version of the VRE.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D2.1 Existing DD&AS and Blue Data Infrastructures – Review and Specifications for Optimisation Report

The Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service (DD&AS) is one of the components of the Blue-Cloud technical framework. It serves federated discovery and access to Blue Data Infrastructures (BDIs) for external users and also interacts with the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment (the component federating computing platforms and analytical services) for populating the VRE data pool. Within the framework of the H2020 pilot Blue-Cloud project, the first operational release of the Blue-Cloud DD&AS was deployed.

• Read more about Blue-Cloud 2026 - D2.2 New Blue Data Infrastructures – Service Analysis Report

The Blue Cloud Data Discovery and Access Service (DD&AS) is one of the core components of the Blue-Cloud technical framework. It It facilitates discovery and retrieval of marine data sets and data products from blue data infrastructures (BDIs), such as key EU infrastructures such as Copernicus Marine Service, EMODnet, SeaDataNet, and more, for external users in stand-alone mode. It interacts with the Blue-Cloud Virtual Research Environment, the component federating computing platforms and analytical services, for populating the VRE data pool.