BlueBRIDGE is a project funded by the European Union to support blue growth (sustainable use of ocean resources) through virtual research environments (VREs) and innovative applications based on EU e-infrastructures. The project aims to facilitate collaboration between scientists, SME innovators, and educators addressing blue growth challenges. It has created 54 VREs covering topics like aquaculture, biodiversity, and stock assessment. BlueBRIDGE also works to enhance e-infrastructure capabilities and integrate resources from multiple providers. Going forward, it seeks to maintain existing VREs and products through business agreements to ensure their long-term sustainability in supporting the blue growth community.

1. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
BlueBRIDGE:
major achievements & future vision
Donatella Castelli
CNR-ISTI
Supporting Blue Growth with
innovative applications based on
EU e-infrastructures
14-15 February 2018, Brussels

2. Companies
ENG
GRID-A, CITE,
I2S, CLS
IT Research &
Academic
Institutions
CNR, UoA
FORTH
Blue Domain
related
scientific
institutions
FAO, ICES, IRD
Training,
dissemination
& outreach
specialised
actors
Trust-IT,
PMBret
Administration
office
ERCIM
Topic: EINFRA-9-15-e-Infrastructure for virtual
research environments (VRE)
Period: September 2016 – February 2018
Total Cost: 5.3 Millon
Extimated Effort: 715 p/m
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3. A new landscape
Big Data
eInfrastru
ctures
Services
VREs
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4. BlueBRIDGE Objective
To exploit the new technological landscape for facilitating
communities of scientists, innovators from SMEs and educators
from different domains addressing Blue Growth related
challenges in their knowledge production chain, from the initial
phases, data collection and aggregation, to the production of
indicators for competent authorities and investors.
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5. Addressed areas
Supporting
assessment of
stocks and
fisheries
Improving
performance
and
sustainability
in aquaculture
Monitoring
fisheries &
habitat
degradation
Boosting
education &
knowledge
bridging
between
research and
innovation
FAO, ICES, FIN, NOAA,
GeoMar, IRD Wageningen
Univ. , ICCAT, IRD, Ifremer
ICRE8, I2S, CITE, Aleia, Forkys,
EllinikaPsaria, et al.
CLS, FAO, Grid-Arendal, JRC ICES, IRD, ICCAT, Univ. Of
Athens, Univ. of Pisa, et al.
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6. Barriers
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Not enough compute and data
capacity, too complex to use
Too long and complex processes
for accessing and using
heterogeneous data & tools
available in different
environments, for collaborating
remotely and for making
products sharable & re-usable
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Integrates
WP
S
e-Infrastructure
based approach
Analytics
EngineAggregatorStorage Mediator ….. Service CommonsRegistry
Enables
VRE
VRE
VRE
External e-Infrastructures, repositories & services
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D4Science Identity Highlights
• connecting +5000 scientists in 44 countries
• integrating data from +50 heterogeneous
providers
• executing +55,000 data analysis/month
• providing access to over a billion quality
records in repositories worldwide
• operating with 99,8% service availability
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9. Activities & products
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Knowledge
generation
VREs creation
Products exploitable
by many consumers
Exploitable to support
other VREs
54 VREs
Thematic knowledge
products
Each VRE can serve
other consumers
Infrastructure
enhancement
Increased infra capacity
and functionality
IT
partners
IT& BG
partners
BG
partners
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Increased capacity and
functionality
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Framework to transparently exploit resources from multiple computing providers
Support of standards to interoperare with external service providers &
consumers (NetCDF, WPS, SDMX, OGS ….)
Data catalogue(s) to support data publication and access
Integration of existing working environments (Rstudio, ShareLateX, ...)
Automatic collection of information on provenance for attribution,
repeatability and reusability
Collaborative processes support

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BlueBRIDGE VREs today
54 VREs
• Aquaculture
• Biodiversity
• Ecosystem approach to
fisheries
• Marine Spatial Planning
• Stock Assessment
• Data analysis
• Scientific Training
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• Public (everyone can access it)
• Private (invited by the VRE
admin)
• Restricted (access can be
requested, VRE admin decides)
https://bluebridge.d4science.org/explore

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Collaborators

13. BlueBRIDGE products
in the future
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Umbrella agreement
MoUs & SLAs to maintain
exhisting VREs & products
Price list for VREs, services &
infrastructure usage

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http://www.bluebridge-vres.eu/