BlueBRIDGE workshop: "Supporting Blue Growth with innovative applications based on EU e-infrastructures" - Brussels February 2018

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
supporting education
Anna Davies
Conference and training coordinator, International
Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Anna.davies@ices.dk Supporting Blue Growth with
innovative applications based on
EU e-infrastructures
14-15 February 2018, Brussels

2. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Use of the Blue BRIDGE VREs to support
training, in a variety of contexts, locations
and levels.
- ICES, Scott Large
- UOA, Eleni Petra
- IRD, Julien Barde/Paul Taconet
- CNR, Gianpaolo Coro
Supporting Blue Growth with
innovative applications based on
EU e-infrastructures
14-15 February 2018, Brussels

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Training with VREs at ICES
15/02/2018 3
ICES training courses in 2017
Principles and methods of broadband/wideband technologies​
Bergen, Norway​
Bayesian network analysis including the socio-cultural dimension
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark​.
VMS and Logbook data
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark
Applications of quantitative methods in fishery management
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Introduction to Management Strategy Evaluation
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark​​
Introduction to the R environment
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark​​​​.
Introduction to abundance estimation from fisheries acoustic
surveys​
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark
​​Introduction to stock assessment​
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark​
​ICES methods for setting proxy MSY reference points
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark​

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BlueBRIDGE, DTU,ICES Online
training course
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6. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Blue Skills
Eleni Petra, UOA
elenipetra4@gmail.com

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Blue Skills: UoA approach
• In conformance with Knowledge Bridging we
support the creation of a wide “knowledge
alliance”
• Focus on:
- Marine/fisheries universities
- ICT departments
- Socio-economic departments
- Related research organizations
- Fisheries/aquaculture experts (stakeholders)

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Department of Fisheries – Acquaculture Technology – T.E.I of
Western Greece
14.11.2017
• “BlueBRIDGE: New generation tools for
aquaculture»
• More than 90 students and 2 professors
have been used Aquaculture Training
Lab VRE

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Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment
University of Thessaly
13.12.2017
• “BlueBRIDGE: New generation tools for
aquaculture»
• More than 100 students and 2
professors have been used Aquaculture
Training Lab VRE

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13. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Blue Skills
Gianpaolo Coro, CNR
gianpaolo.coro@isti.cnr.it

14. Overview of current courses
and scopes
Computer Engineers
• 1 course (20h) per year in the PhD in
Computer Engineering at Univ. of Pisa
Biologists/Oceanographers
• At University of Paris (Sorbonne) -
Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) Paris
(Master deg.s in Systématique,
Evolution et Paléontologie,
Oceanography and Marine
Environment) - Villefranche-sur-mer
(Oceanography and Marine
Environment)
Scopes
• The course gives students
an overview of the models,
the practices and the
methods that large
international organizations
like FAO and UNESCO apply
by means of D4Science.
• introduces students to the
basic concepts under e-
Infrastructures, Virtual
Research Environments,
data sharing and
experiments
reproducibility.
• Presents best practices in
stock assessment,
biodiversity conservation
and ecology

15. Topics
e-Infrastructures and Virtual Research Environments
Practice with the D4Science e-Infrastructure
Geospatial data visualization and representation
Statistical models for species distribution modelling
Accessing to large heterogeneous biodiversity catalogs
Signal processing of biodiversity-related observations
Machine Learning applied to species observation records
Lexical search in large taxonomic trees
Cloud computing applied to biodiversity analyses
TabMan
DataMiner
Species
Product
Discovery
GeoExplorer
BlueBRIDGE
Services

16. Current teaching approach
Lecture-style: the course topics
stress is different depending on the
audience
Interactive: after each
explained topic, students do
experiments
Experimental: students
reproduce the experiment shown by
the teacher and possibly repeat it on
their own data
Social: students communicate via
messaging or VRE discussion panel

17. Method
1. The teacher shares a folder
through the Workspace and makes
Training material available
2. Students join the same
Virtual Research
Environment
3. Students produce data and upload
them in a folder on the Workspace they
share with the teacher
4. Uploaded data are notified to the
teacher and represent certification
that the students have worked
correctly
5. Final tests are done using the same
approach

18. Example of course schedule
Day 1. Introduction to e-Infrastructures, Virtual
Research Environments and Large Biodiversity
Catalogs– 9.00 – 13.00
Day 2. Geospatial data descriptions, catalogs and
visualization – 9.00 - 13.00
Day 3. Trends analysis of species observation
records and environmental data– 9.00 - 13.00
Day 4. Data Processing: operations on large species
datasets and taxonomic trees – 9.00 – 13.00
Day 5. Data Analytics: species distribution
modelling using machine learning techniques and
Cloud computing and indicators production – 9.00
– 13.00

19. Policies
No use e-Infrastructure contributors proprietary data and
software: stock assessment data, Geospatial layers, species
occurrences
Use of public data produced by BlueBRIDGE and shared by
other users: AquaMaps, niche models, trained statistical
models, environmental data
Use of publicly available information only with proper
citation: GBIF, OBIS, Catalog of Life, Marine Regions, Copernicus
with proper citation
Students can bring their own data and decide to give them
restricted access

20. Enhancements after BlueBRIDGE
• Reuse models provided by the other participants
More models
• Social networking facilities have supported private and
direct discussions between students/scientists and
teacher
Social Networking
• Online training with material and questionnaires is
possible
Online Training

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Online training
Modules
section
Grading
system
Video
content site
Peer-feedback
system
Creating modules
Creating questionnaires for the
modules
Adding video content
(through YouTube)
Work in progress

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Example - Courses

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Modules
Students:
cannot edit,
delete or create
new
folders/upload
files
can download
contents and see
their progress
can take
questionnaires

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Creating courses
Create, edit and delete courses within a VRE:
• Add Modules (Units) and content to units
• Add students to the course
• Associate questionnaires to units

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BENEFITS
• Today students – tomorrow managers
and aquaculture owners are practically
using high technology environments
• Domain experts, professors and students
give a lot of domain specific and real
word feedback
• By the training courses, technology
“approaches” easier the traditional
domains
• A new, practical means of further
economic and large scale development

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BENEFITS (cont.)
• Training VREs
✓Cooperative training environment
✓Technology supporting tool for corporate
development/common strategy
✓Appropriate tool for vocational training
✓Communication/knowledge of different
departments in companies and gaining of
global knowledge