The Department of Mathematics joins the European consortium BlueOcean (Horizon Europe MSCA-DN) as a partner

The Department of Mathematics at UPC is taking part in the BlueOcean project: “Blue Ocean technology for sustainable monitoring of marine ecosystems,” funded by the Horizon Europe program under the MSCA Doctoral Networks call (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN).

The consortium, coordinated by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Denmark), is made up of 14 partners from different European countries and will train 13 doctoral candidates over 48 months, with a planned start in summer 2026.

The members of the Department of Mathematics involved in the project are José Rodellar, Training Manager of the network and scientific coordinator at UPC; Santiago Alférez, Principal Investigator at UPC; and Jezabel Curbelo, member of the research team.

UPC has a significant scientific role: it will host one of its own doctoral candidates, participate in the co-supervision of two theses from other institutions, and host two secondments for doctoral candidates from the consortium. The budget allocated to UPC is approximately 282.000€.

The project has already successfully passed the evaluation phase with a score of 95.60/100 and is currently in the Grant Agreement preparation phase, which is expected to be signed in June 2026.