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
PRAXI and NOA will participate in 2 cross-border events such as information days, seminars, workshops and matchmaking.
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)
The action aimed at the joint organization of a cross-border working Day on Copernicus to strengthen the Copernicus programme use and the collaborations between the Walloon Region of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
The workshop, intended as a dialog with key local institutions, aims to improve and facilitate the dialog between all the national end-users and enterprise community members’ representatives.
Pre-identification of a first set of (Copernicus) EO (Sentinel) derived cross-border services and products which could contribute to fulfil the geo-information needs in the framework of the transposition of EU directives or COP 21 decisions at regional level, especially those dealing with cross-border problematics linked to land planning,...
EU Member States are responsible for implementing EU regulations such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSD). Finland has developed advanced EO-based (Copernicus Sentinels) water quality related tools and practices that serve directive implementation.
The objective is to develop an advanced course about remote sensing technology and applications in Estonia’s largest University (Tartu University) for the master level international program training for the limited period 2 years.