This VRE was created to support the discussions and activity of the Blue Skills pillar, in particularit supports project members in planning courses, discussing experiences resulting from courses, sharing material prepared for supporting courses, exploiting current tools and facilities to assess the fitness for purpose with respect to a planned course. In addition to the basic functionalities, as a workspace for sharing objects of interest, a social networking area for supporting the discussions among members and a user management facility for managing membership, this VRE is specifically equipped with the following capabilities: Data Analytics at Scale: a facility enabling users to benefit from the offering of the DataMiner service and interactively execute a large array of data analytics tasks on datasets. These algorithms range from data clustering and anomalies detection methods (e.g. DBScan and KMeans) to algorithms for manipulating datasets from the geospatial perspective (e.g. transform FAO Area Code in latitude and longitude) Species Data Discovery: facility enabling users to discover and manage species data products (occurrence data and taxonomic data) from a number of heterogeneous providers (including GBIF and speciesLink for occurrences data, and ASFIS, BrazilianFlora, CatalogueOfLife, IRMNG, IT IS, NCBI, WoRDSS, WoRMS for taxonomic data) in a seamless way. Once discovered, objects can be stored in the workspace for future uses Geospatial Data View: facility enabling users to discover and visualize GIS layers, e.g. species distribution maps, Sea Surface Temperature, that have been generated and/or published. This facility relies on the GeoExplorer portlet and makes it possible to effectively exploit the generated maps and perform comparisons and analysis of the diverse distributions by enabling maps overlay, transects production and values inspection