Still wondering if you can benefit from the BlueBRIDGE services? Here is the answer

BlueBRIDGE delivers tailor-made data management services operated through Virtual Research Environments, VREs.

What are VREs?

 

Are you from the Research Sector?

Collaborative data analytics, access, discovery, publication tools to speed up your research.

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Are you a private/public organisation?

Use the BlueBRIDGE innovative data services to support the collaborative production of scientific knowledge...

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Do you work in Education?

We can support educators in efficiently preparing platforms for practical experimentation in scientific courses.

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The BlueBRIDGE January workshop report is out:  discover how BlueBRIDGE and e-infrastructures can boost Blue Growth

The aim of the January BlueBRIDGE workshop “Understanding how ecosystems of e-infrastructures can boost Blue Growth” was to showcase how the Blue Growth sector is benefitting from the BlueBRIDGE services and to discuss opportunities related to data management with e-infrastructures. The workshop brought together over 50 stakeholders operating in the Blue Growth sector with data management challenges needing integrated solutions. We have captured all the main findings in the event report.

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What they say about us

The development of the BlueBRIDGE smart solutions will importantly support decision-makers involved in the ecosystem approach to fisheries and aquaculture management, by facilitating the knowledge production chain from the initial phases of data collection, through to aggregation, analysis and the production of indicators for competent authorities and investors.

Marc Taconet, Chief of the Fishery Statistics and Information Branch Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

In recent years our customers coming from the aquaculture sector became more and more aware of the fact that in order for an aquaculture enterprise to remain viable and profitable, it must be environmentally sound and able to monitor its performance. By integrating some of the analysis and simulation algorithms of our own company software into the BlueBRIDGE infrastructure, we can enhance our data services better, supporting aquaculture producers to answer their main concern: how can I maximize the growth rate of my livestock by minimizing the production costs?

Kostas Seferis, CEO, Integrated Information System SA (I2S)

A common challenge for educators is to set up scientific training that allow students to execute, in parallel, data and processing intensive experiments. Not all institutes have the capability and the resources to support these kind of courses. BlueBRIDGE offers a unique opportunity to professors and educators to set up VREs to run training sessions by exploiting the infrastrcture facilities.

Neil Holdsworth, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

Usually students are presented with theoretical information about data and computational e-infrastructures. With BlueBRIDGE they are able to see how different sets of marine data can be easily accessed and processed with different analytical tools providing them with efficient instruments to support their daily research.

Yannis Vassilou, Director of Institute of Computer and Communication Systems & Professor at the National Technical University of Athens

We are now facing a set of challenges that we think the BlueBRIDGE services and technologies can help us to address. In particular, BlueBRIDGE can support the process of Ecopath model creation, homogenize data access irrespective of data source, support the process of data conversion from original GIS data formats to a format usable by Ecospace and more.

Jeroen Steenbeek, Head Technical Committee at Ecopath Research and Development Consortium

LATEST NEWS, TECHNOLOGY UPDATES, UPCOMING EVENTS AND TRAINING COURSES

Get the latest updates on BlueBRIDGE and find out where you can meet us. Interested in attending a training course on e-infrastructures or Blue Growth related topics? Check what we offer!

Jul 05

RDA Europe-BlueBRIDGE Datathon on Fisheries and Aquaculture: main outcomes and datathon material

 
Jul 03

The report of the April Workshop “FAIR Friendly Research Data Catalogue: how far are we?” is out

The main outcomes of the BlueBRIDGE April workshop “FAIR Friendly Research Data Catalogue: how far are we?” are now available in our report (Download the report here).   The workshop took place on 3 April 2017, in...
May 18

Cross e-infrastructures collaboration: enhancing the BlueBRIDGE services through the EGI computing & storage resources

Last week, Tiziana Ferrari, Technical Director of the EGI foundation, opened the EGI Conference 2017 highlighting the importance of collaboration among e-infrastructures. One of the successful examples highlighted by...
Jan 12

BlueBRIDGE Workshop - Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-infrastructures can boost Blue Growth

BlueBRIDGE hosted a workshop entitled "Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-infrastructures can boost Blue Growth" that took place on 11 January, 2017, from 10:00-16:00 CET, in Brussels, Belgium.

Dec 16

BlueBRIDGE presentation & VRE usage @ NKUA course, 6 December 2016, Athens (Greece)

"BlueBRIDGE: Cloud infrastructure serving aquafarms and supporting models" was among the modules of the  NKUA postgraduate course on “DATA BASES MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS”. The course, which was given by Prof. Yannis Ioannidis...
Dec 08

Principles and methods of broadband/wideband technologies: application to fisheries acoustics, 8 - 12 December 2016 Bergen, Norway

ICES training course on "Principles and methods of broadband/wideband technologies: application to fisheries acoustics" will be taking place this coming september, assisted with the use of the BlueBRIDGE VREs.
Jun 09

Introduction to Stock Assessment, 6-9 June 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

ICES training course "Introduction to stock assessment" will be taking place this coming June, assisted with the use of the BlueBRIDGE VREs. This course provides instruction, demonstration, and exercises in population...
Feb 14

ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points for stocks in categories 3 and 4 - Part II, 14-15 February 2017

The objective of this course was to enable stock assessors and users of ICES advice to understand the underlying principles of each method, the required data and format, as well as how to run the code and interpret the...
Jan 25

ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points for stocks in categories 3 and 4, 25-26 January 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

ICES training course on "ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points for stocks in categories 3 and 4" took place on January 25-26 in Copenhagen, Denmark, assisted with the use of the BlueBRIDGE VREs. 18...
Dec 21

The latest release from BlueBRIDGE: A set of techno-economic assessment tools for aquafarms

The latest Virtual Research Environment (VRE) released by BlueBRIDGE has been conceived for all the aquafarming enterprises that want an answer to the question: how can I maximize the growth rate of
Nov 23

Oceana study: Sustainability could increase fish catches by 57% - BlueBRIDGE makes available the stock assessment model used by Oceana in its Virtual Research Environments

Oceana, the largest international advocacy organization focused on ocean conservation, published a new research that provides the most comprehensive overview so far of overfishing in European fish stocks.
Nov 15

A new suite of three algorithms, implementing a Supervised Machine Learning Workflow based on Feed Forward Neural Networks, is now available for the BlueBRIDGE VREs

A new suite of three algorithms, implementing a Supervised Machine Learning Workflow based on Feed Forward Neural Networks, is now available.