FAIR-EASE and Blue-Cloud 2026 Join Forces to Advance Open Science and Data Interoperability
As the FAIR-EASE project enters its final month, it is closing with a high-impact event that highlights both its achievements and its ongoing legacy.
On 28 August 2025 at 10:00 CEST, FAIR-EASE and Blue-Cloud 2026 will host a joint webinar entitled "Advancing Open Science: Interoperable Data Access and Cloud-Based Workflows". This collaboration is rooted in a formal Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2024 between CNRS (FAIR-EASE) and CNR-ISTI (Blue-Cloud 2026), laying the groundwork for shared development, integration, and long-term sustainability.
From Data Discovery to Data Access
The webinar, open to researchers, data scientists, infrastructure providers, and policy stakeholders, will showcase how both projects are pushing the boundaries of data discovery, access, and analysis. Participants will gain practical insights into how emerging standards and technical services, such as the Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) and Data Discovery and Access Service (DD&AS), are enabling more structured, interdisciplinary use of environmental data. The session will also explore data access through technologies like ARCO, STAC, openEO, and UDAL, integrated with Blue-Cloud’s BEACON high-performance data lake for scalable environmental analysis.
Enhancing Data Analysis with Cloud-Based Science Platforms
On the analysis side, attendees will see how Galaxy, a widely used platform in biodiversity and now extended for environmental science, supports both interactive and automated workflows. Thanks to its integration into D4Science within the Blue-Cloud Computing Platform (CCP), Galaxy is now part of a federated environment that enables advanced, cross-domain studies.
A Joint Use Case for Coastal Monitoring
The event will conclude with a joint use case presentation: the Coastal Water Dynamics Pilot, demonstrating how the two projects are facilitating access to complex datasets – from satellite imagery to river and ocean models – providing new pathways for data correlation and scientific insight.
Trust-IT and COMMpla’s Role in Fostering Long-Term Impact
This webinar marks not only the final public activity of the FAIR-EASE project but also a significant milestone in its collaboration with Blue-Cloud 2026, coordinated by Trust-IT Services. Trust-IT has played a pivotal role in fostering the visibility, exploitation, and long-term sustainability of FAIR-EASE results through its role as communication, dissemination, and exploitation partner. Trust-IT has also ensured strong alignment with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and other key European initiatives, reinforcing the relevance of both projects at the policy and infrastructure levels.
In preparation for this event, the newly updated FAIR-EASE website, developed by COMMpla, offers visitors a user-friendly entry point to explore the project’s outcomes. The Results section now features a structured catalogue of Key Exploitable Results (KERs), grouped by data discovery, data access, data analysis, demonstrators, and FAIR principles, making it easier for users to find relevant tools, services, and outputs. Each result is presented through a dedicated page enriched with multimedia, documentation, and direct access links.
As both FAIR-EASE and Blue-Cloud 2026 continue their efforts to build scalable, FAIR tools and services, this webinar reflects a broader commitment to supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary research and to ensuring that European scientific communities have the tools they need to address the complex environmental challenges of today and tomorrow.
For more details and to register: https://fairease.eu/events/advancing-open-science-interoperable-data-access-and-cloud-based-workflows