RDA Ninth Plenary Meeting, 5-7 April 2017, Barcelona, Spain

10/Feb/2017

The 9th RDA Plenary Meeting will take place from 5th to 7th April 2017 at the Barcelo Sants Hotel, Barcelona, Spain. The plenary meeting is organised by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) with the support of RDA Europe and sponsored by Lenovo. BlueBRIDGE will be present to the event with two sessions

50 representatives of research organisations, governments, aquafarming enterprises, international fisheries organisations and SMEs attended the 11th January BlueBRIDGE Workshop

16/Jan/2017

The BlueBRIDGE Workshop “Understanding how ecosystems of EU e-infrastructures can boost Blue Growth”, which took place on the 11th January 2017 in Brussels, showcased how the BlueBRIDGE services can support the Blue Growth sector through practical testimonies from the BlueBRIDGE users operating in the domain of aquaculture and fisheries. Click here to have a look at all the workshop presentations...

Are you a European SME facing data management challenges? Then apply to the BlueBRIDGE call for SMEs opening at the end of this month

12/Jan/2017

BlueBRIDGE is selecting 5 data intensive SMEs that need its services to face important data management challenges, all free of charge.
BlueBRIDGE offers a set of services and resources for several communities operating in the domains of aquaculture, the ecosystem approach to fisheries, and marine research. These services and resources can also perfectly fit the needs of data intensive Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

What are the skills and competences required for the emerging Data Science professions? Have your say contributing to the EDISON’s Survey

02/Jan/2017

The EDISON Project launched a survey. The purpose of the research is to accelerate the process of establishing the profession of Data Scientist by identifying skills and competences required for the emerging Data Science professions.

The latest release from BlueBRIDGE: A set of techno-economic assessment tools for aquafarms

21/Dec/2016

The latest Virtual Research Environment (VRE) released by BlueBRIDGE has been conceived for all the aquafarming enterprises that want an answer to the question: how can I maximize the growth rate of my livestock by minimizing the production costs?

ICES announcing the upcoming training courses supported by BlueBRIDGE

18/Dec/2016

The ICES December newsletter announces the two-part course on proxy MSY reference points that will be held in January and February to kick off the 2017 training programme.

Oceana study: Sustainability could increase fish catches by 57% - BlueBRIDGE makes available the stock assessment model used by Oceana in its Virtual Research Environments

23/Nov/2016

Oceana, the largest international advocacy organization focused on ocean conservation, published a new research that provides the most comprehensive overview so far of overfishing in European fish stocks.

BlueBRIDGE @ HydroMediT 2016

17/Nov/2016

From 10-12 November 2016 BlueBRIDGE took part in the 2nd International Congress "HydroMediT 2016" in Mesolonghi, Greece. The 3-day programme explored applied ichthyology and the aquatic environment. The main objective of the conference was to examine global trends and innovations for the sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries.

A new suite of three algorithms, implementing a Supervised Machine Learning Workflow based on Feed Forward Neural Networks, is now available for the BlueBRIDGE VREs

15/Nov/2016

A new suite of three algorithms, implementing a Supervised Machine Learning Workflow based on Feed Forward Neural Networks, is now available. It can be used for general Classification and Regression tasks as well as correlation studies and biological simulations requiring some kind of information extraction from labelled data.  
The three algorithms are briefly described below:

New BlueBRIDGE VRE supporting a scientific training on Stock Assessment

03/Nov/2016

BlueBRIDGE recently developed a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) supporting a scientific training on Stock Assessment. This VRE will be used for the ICES Advanced Stock Assessment Training Course, which will be held from Monday, 28 November, to Friday, 2 December, 2016.