Blue-Cloud aims to be the unique reference European ecosystem of Marine Research & Innovation initiatives. Blue-Cloud is rele ... vant to the work programme ‘H2020-BG-2018-2020 – Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’ and its topic ‘The Future of Seas and Oceans Flagship Initiative’. The technical framework of the pilot Blue-Cloud will feature: 1) a component to serve federated discovery and access to the blue data infrastructures and 2) a component to provide a Blue Cloud VRE as a federation of computing platforms and analytical services. The required data input for the Blue Cloud VRE will be arranged by interaction with the Blue Cloud discovery and access component as well as by users ingesting data sets from other external sources and their own data sources. The data input can be in-situ data, earth observation data, and model outputs. The analytical services can be various algorithms and generic services, for instance for sub setting, pre-processing, publishing, and viewing data and data products. Blue-Cloud (Piloting innovative services for Marine Research & the Blue Economy) is a 36-month project, funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Horizon 2020. read more