The Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake (FPCUP) is dedicated to increasing the number of Copernicus users and the uptake of Copernicus data and services worldwide. It supports four types of activities to help users leverage Copernicus:
- Hosting national and multi-national workshops, information days, and other types of awareness-raising and training events
- Building active dialogue related to Copernicus
- Developing and piloting applications and services
- Promoting national and cross-border innovative actions
Co-financed by the European Commission, FPCUP is coordinated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR Space Agency). Its consortium includes 50 partners from 23 European countries, representing a wide range of expertise. After seven years and over 220 actions, FPCUP is coming to and end in December 2025.
FPCUP Actions
This action aims to raise awareness in Greece and inform the relevant players about the Copernicus EU Programme.
The objective is to provide pilot provision of air quality information for Germany to citizens and decision-makers based on downscaled CAMS data (as a downstream service).
Information days will be carried out in collaboration of Tartu Observatory/Tartu University with by Estonian Land Board.
Promote the use of COPERNICUS to public and scientific events with adequate diffusion and promotion materials and valorise current research projects and prototypes using Sentinel and Contributing Missions data.
Organize an advanced training session on Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR data in collaboration with the Spatial Centre of the University of Liège (CSL) and Fabspace 2.0. This session will be open to national and international EO researchers, PhD and master students.
This action aims at perpetuating and further developing the GTEO in the following years which could become the privileged interface for stakeholders from all horizons to discuss the Walloon EO strategies.
The aim of this action is to integrate COPERNICUS data in the EU regulatory framework. Indeed, several European legislations are currently implemented and COPERNICUS data could easily provide a real added value in supporting the implementation of this legislation. Legislation like the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) that aims at...
To organize courses, workshops and seminars (1 to 5 days of duration) in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and selected countries of Latin America, mainly in Spanish language (but also in Portuguese and English)