The project started in July 2018 and is led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and funded by the European Commission (DG DEFIS) responding on an EU call to establish the Caroline Herschel Framework Partnership Agreement between the Commission and Copernicus Participating States. Thus, FPCUP is one specific part in the Commissions‘ User Uptake Strategy setting up a Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for user uptake with Member States.

This action includes in particular maintaining communication in the consortium, administration of the consortium, organizing meetings, running the Consortium governance structures, liaising with the Commission, the provision of communication tools, and debating ideas and views on the current challenges of Copernicus user uptake.