"ASSEMBLE Plus 2021 - Marine biological research at the frontier” will showcase recent developments in marine biology and ecology; state-of-the-art technologies available at marine stations and institutes; how to access biological resources and marine research infrastructure; how to improve services provided by marine stations; and, the impact of the services provided on industry and society.

The “COST-ETN hands-on data Workshop” aims to introduce you the data portal of the European Tracking Network. During the workshop you will get familiar with the different functionalities of the system and its importance. Further, the entire data flow from upload to dissemination will be explained, linking your data to the FAIR data principles, open access repositories and data citations.

More information on the link below.

Are you interested in applications of Big data and Supercomputing in the blue economy? Have you already thought about a Digitaltwin of the North Sea and what that could mean for you and your company? Which Marine Data is still lacking for the development of successful industrial applications at sea?

The first meeting of the LifeWatch Maritime Industry Advisory Board is taking place on 25 September 2020.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020's edition of the LifeWatch Users & Stakeholders Meeting happened entirely online!

On day 1 (October 15th) the Belgian LifeWatch partners brought a series of user stories, while on day 2 (October 16th), specific aspects of the Belgian LifeWatch infrastructure were demonstrated.

Agenda:

The OceanTeacher Global Academy (OTGA) offered a training course in research data management, which covered the planning, creating, storing, organizing, accessing, sharing, describing, publishing and curating of data.

The Blue-Cloud Hackathon is an open invitation to marine scientists & researchers, data scientists, ICT experts, innovators, students, and anyone who is passionate about the Ocean to explore and test Blue-Cloud: A new, Open Science platform for the marine domain offering a wealth of data, analytical tools and computing power to support you in developing solutions for a safe, healthy, productive, predictive and transparent Ocean.

Talk by Lennert Schepers from LifeWatchVLIZ: "Breaking out of the research data cycle - 20 years of marine data management" (16:00-16:30, room 4. C1.)