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 at increasing cross-border collaboration of Copernicus stakeholders, increase the uptake of Copernicus services and contribute to the addressing of regional natural disaster challenges.
The action aims to support University graduates to acquire the necessary Earth Observation knowledge and cloud computing skills to work in public authorities and with the German Copernicus platform CODE-DE.
The main objective of this action is to foster innovative service development for sustainable management in the Baltic Sea catchment area. The innovation aims at open-source development to meet the needs of governmental agencies as well as promote the use of Copernicus data in business applications.
This action aims at launching 6 innovation and business challenges where ‘end-user’ will express a challenge to be solved by the use of space data, and especially Copernicus based products.
The main objective of this action is to create the necessary educational tools to support training and promotional activities on climate characterization for hydrological, water-related risks and hydro-power applications, targeted at different sectors and user levels.
The aim of this action is to organise a meeting that aims at involving the up-stream, midstream and downstream industrial and research community in a common forum.
This action will develop a new wildfire information service for the Arctic and northern latitudes based on Sentinel data and Copernicus services for climate aware citizens, environmental agencies, civil protection, forest industry and cross-Arctic entities