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.
This work directly contributes to the objectives of the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters, the EU Digital Twin of the Ocean (including EDITO, its core public infrastructure), and the UN Ocean Decade, by enabling data-driven solutions for ocean sustainability.
As Blue-Cloud 2026 reaches its conclusion, the project hands over a mature, policy-aligned digital legacy: the EOSC Node | European Digital Twin Ocean, is progressing towards operational integration within the EOSC Federation.
Participants will leave with first-hand experience of the EOSC Node European Digital Twin Ocean, insights into Blue-Cloud’s legacy, and a clear view of Europe’s path toward a federated, policy-aligned digital ocean ecosystem, aligned with the goals of the EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters, the EDITO, and the UN Ocean Decade.
Nicola Fiore (EGI Foundation), EOSC Beyond Technical Coordinator, joins the panel “A federated digital research environment in support of European Research” at 14:30-15:30.
