Results from BlueBRIDGE survey on data management for the marine and aquaculture sector. Respondents: 212 members of the French Business and Sea Innovation Cluster, the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique.

1. BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Report on requirements
and expectations survey
Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique
anais.turpault@polemer-ba.com

2. Framework
• Survey sent to the PMBret’s contact database on February 23, 2016 (2 months online)
• 212 responses on April 22, 2016
o 151 responses fully completed
o 98% of French respondents
9.9%
11.3%
8.5%
29.2%
6.6%
7.1%
10.4%
2.4%
14.6%
University
Research Institute
Environmental Consulting Company
Company (including SME)
Professional Organization
Policy Maker
Association
Intergovernmental Organization
Other
44.0% 47.3%
75.8%
0.0%
20.0%
40.0%
60.0%
80.0%
Fisheries Aquaculture Environment
• Third of respondents are companies,
quarter are academics
• 3 quarters of respondents are concerned
by environmental issues (roughly half of them
by fisheries and aquaculture)

3. Overview
• Some data show a definite interest of survey respondents for the project, its services and tools,
indeed:
o More than three quarters of the respondents want to subscribe to the newsletter.
o Approximately 25% would like to attend a workshop + 50% of “maybe”.
• Half of respondents find that services and tools that will be developed during the project are
relevant (15% found them very relevant). Less than 8% find little interest, explaining:
There are already many databases. What is missing
is more their analysis than their management
- University
Few business data
or market analyzes
- Company
We need a data monitoring in time on
constant parameters to find out about
what is happening at sea. The quality and
consistency of observation should be
preferred on the abundance of data
– Public body
As all scientific projects,
little commercial value
- Company
Certainly for a business (large or
medium) in a context of productivity
and competitiveness but not for small
company
- Company

4. Services and functionalities
What are the BlueBRIDGE services that might be of interest to you?
Answer Options
Response
Percent
Response
Count
Stock Assessment Dashboard 30,3% 57
Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries 38,8% 73
Performance Evaluation in Aquaculture Dashboard 33,0% 62
Strategic Investments Analysis Dashboard 48,4% 91
Aquaculture Atlas Generation 41,0% 77
Protected Area Impact Maps Production 54,8% 103
Scientific Training Environments 52,1% 98
answered question 188
skipped question 11
Which key functionalities of the BlueBRIDGE services might interest you?
Answer Options
Response
Percent
Response
Count
Data collection and management 64,8% 103
Data harmonization to international standards 26,4% 42
Data analysis, modeling/forecasting tools 57,2% 91
Data publication 50,9% 81
Data mapping tools/ Cartography 64,8% 103
Metadata management and master data management 30,2% 48
Other 7,5% 12
answered question 159
skipped question 53
1. “Protected Area Impact Maps”
(54.8%).
2. “Scientific Training
Environments” (52.1%)
3. “Strategic investments in
Aquaculture” (48.4%)
1. “Cartography and mapping
tools”
2. “Data collection”
• “Harmonization of data” and
“metadata management”
functionalities are less attractive to
respondents.
• Respondents believed that the project could help overcoming the problem of harmonization of
the data to international standards and to fill a lack of data.

5. Private companies
• 62 private companies (including SMEs) have filed the survey.
• VREs of interest:
1. “Scientific training environment” (51.7%)
2. “Strategic investments in aquaculture” (44.8%)
3. “Protected Area Impact Maps” VRE (44.8%)
• Main functionalities of interest “Data collection and management” (69.8%). Private companies
are very interested in the functionality “data collection and management", so we can therefore
assume that they want to use the services as a database. As a matter of fact, 46.5% of private
companies have declared that they already use online databases.
• Other functionalities of interest:
1. “Data analysis/modeling and forecasting tools” (53.5.8%)
2. “Mapping tools/cartography” (53.5%)
3. “Data publication” (51.1%)
• Some of the functionalities that will be developed in the different VREs are less interesting for
them such as harmonization of the data (21%) and metadata management (32.5%).

6. Academics
• 45 responses considering both universities and research institutes (1/5 of the respondents).
• VREs of interest:
1. “Scientific training environment” (60.4%)
2. “Protected Area Impact Maps” VRE (51.1%)
• Main functionalities of interest
1. “Data collection and management” (58.8%)
2. “Data analysis/modeling and forecasting tools” (55.8%)
3. “Mapping tools/cartography” (47%)
• 2 thirds of them already use online databases and nearly half use modeling and mapping
software for their current activities, problems to be solved:
1. “Unavailability of data” (64.5%)
2. “Harmonization of data” (64.5%)

7. Contact us
• Find more about BlueBRIDGE on
www.bluebridge-vres.eu
• Follow us @BlueBridgeVREs
• Write us @ info@blue-bridge-vres.eu