Federated European Ecosystem
The project aims to develop a Federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR & Open data and analytical services, instrumental for deepening research of oceans, EU seas, and coastal & inland waters. Dr Zhiming Zhao of the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group, part of the Informatics Institute, joins the project and contributes to developing and exploiting Oceanographic Virtual Research Environments and Data Management services.

The project will last 42 months with a total budget of 8M euros. MNS will share 100K from the project to support Dr Zhao to explore the opportunity to integrate the BlueCloud VRE with LifeWatch infrastructure and make it available for larger communities in ENVRI-FAIR/Lifewatch.

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Two major research actions
European Commission invests €16 million in two major research actions for healthy oceans and waters by 2030