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The farming of fish and seafood, also known as aquaculture, in the EU has been subject to a set of EU-wide strategic guidelines, which set out standard priorities and targets to ensure the sector is run and developed sustainably. The EC has launched a public consultation about the new guidelines to be implemented late 2020.

Blue-Cloud partners CNR and CINECA activated a new collaboration aimed at extending the D4Science infrastructure with a computational site hosted at CINECA.

The European Commission and the European External Action Service have launched a targeted consultation to assess development needs and options for the EU’s International Ocean Governance agenda. Have your say until 15 October 2020!

Sustainability and security of seafood systems are extremely relevant issues for policy-makers, especially in coastal areas which heavily depend on fishing in terms of sustenance and economy. The demonstrator “Aquaculture Monitor” shows how Blue-Cloud services can support data-related aspects of the monitoring of marine cage aquaculture.

Last week, the European Commission adopted an updated action plan for a sustainable, resilient and competitive blue economy in the EU Atlantic area, covering France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.

The EOSC Executive Board is launching an open consultation on the EOSC Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). The consultation will run for 6 weeks over the summer, closing 31st August and will be in the form of an online questionnaire available on the EOSCSecretariat.eu website. Have your say and help us shape the future of the EOSC!

On 20th July, the EOSC Executive Board will open a public consultation aimed at defining the priorities of the future Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA). It will take place on the EOSCsecretariat.eu website and will run for 6 weeks.

The Mission Board on Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters recently published an interim report, proposing to regenerate the European ocean and waters by 2030.

The official report of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Forum held in Brussels in February 2020 was published by the European Commission. Read about the event and Blue-Cloud's contributions!

In June, the European Commission published the EU Blue Economy Report 2020, an overview of all economic sectors related to oceans and the coastal environment across the EU. What is its relevance to Blue-Cloud?

The European Commission is launching a Green Deal call for research proposals in September, and one of the proposed topics is a digital ocean. Stakeholders and the public are invited to help shape the call through an online survey.  

Let's discover the "Marine Environmental Indicators" Blue-Cloud demonstrator, which will develop an online service with an associated cloud-based analytical computing framework, and a dedicated web interface to provide and display indicators and information on the environmental quality of the ocean.