Blue-Cloud 2026

A Federated European FAIR and open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters

Blue-Cloud 2026 aims at a further evolution of the Blue-Cloud pilot ecosystem into a Federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR & Open data and analytical services, instrumental for deepening research of oceans, EU seas, coastal & inland waters. It develops a thematic marine extension to EOSC for open web-based science, serving the needs of the EU Blue Economy, Marine Environment and Marine Knowledge agendas.

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Project results on the EOSC Macro-Roadmap

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Federated Data Discovery and Access Services (DD&AS)

Q2 - 2026

The DD&AS service facilitates discovery and retrieval of marine datasets from federated Blue Data Infrastructures (BDIs) using a common user interface. The BDIs are leading and authoritative marine...

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Metadata Broker for Marine Science Data

Q2 - 2023

The Blue-Cloud Metadata Broker is one of the technical service components of the Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access Service (DD&AS). It is based upon the DAB service as...

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Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for marine research

Q1 - 2023

The VRE is a cloud-based platform where users can seamlessly exploit computing environments, algorithms and data sources to support marine research.

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