AQUA-SMART Blog

    Science, data and guides from the Black Sea aquaculture observatory.

    Exploring the AQUA-SMART Atlas: One Map for the Whole Black Sea
    Guide

    Exploring the AQUA-SMART Atlas: One Map for the Whole Black Sea

    A guided tour of the Atlas with real screenshots: monitoring stations, satellite layers, site suitability scoring, protected areas, the stakeholder map and relationship lines.

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    BSB News & Open Calls: One Daily Feed for Black Sea and EU Water Funding
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    BSB News & Open Calls: One Daily Feed for Black Sea and EU Water Funding

    How AQUA-SMART collects Interreg Black Sea news and live Horizon Europe, Mission Ocean and water-related calls every day, with source filters, deadlines and direct links to the original pages.

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    Set Up Your Organisation on AQUA-SMART: Members, Departments, PIFs and Invitations
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    Set Up Your Organisation on AQUA-SMART: Members, Departments, PIFs and Invitations

    A step-by-step guide with real screenshots: link your organisation, upload a logo, create departments, share Participant Identification Forms and invite colleagues from the profile or directly from chat.

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    AI Capitalization, Find the Past Black Sea Projects Worth Building On
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    AI Capitalization, Find the Past Black Sea Projects Worth Building On

    How AQUA-SMART scores hundreds of ENPI, ENI and Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin projects against your idea, with the exact match evidence quoted for every result.

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    Introducing the AQUA-SMART Public API, Black Sea Data for Your App
    Developers

    Introducing the AQUA-SMART Public API, Black Sea Data for Your App

    A complete developer guide to the AQUA-SMART Public REST API: endpoints, authentication, code samples, rate limits and how to request a free API key.

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    Meet Ask the Sea, A Natural-Language AI Assistant for the Black Sea Observatory
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    Meet Ask the Sea, A Natural-Language AI Assistant for the Black Sea Observatory

    How we built a tool-augmented Gemini 2.5 Flash assistant that answers live questions about WQI, blooms, eddies and harvest timing across the AQUA-SMART stations.

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    How Our Monitoring Stations Work, Data Sources, Science and How to Read the Dashboard
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    How Our Monitoring Stations Work, Data Sources, Science and How to Read the Dashboard

    A behind-the-scenes look at the satellites, in-situ sensors and models that power the AQUA-SMART Black Sea observatory, and how to interpret what you see.

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