The drop in clothing prices over the last decades has resulted in people buying ever more clothes. In 2020, Europeans bought on average almost 10 kg of clothing items between garments and shoes[1], 5 times more than two generations ago.

Another successful year has been wrapped! We have witnessed extraordinary milestones this year and, as we enter into the new year, we want to remind ourselves of our accomplishments.

The Explorer Festival 2022 supported the objectives of the Copernicus action in Iceland by raising public awareness of the program’s benefits and engaging key user groups—including schools and the private sector—through presentations, exhibitions, and hands-on activities. By showcasing the value of Earth observation data and space related...

Over the last 3 months several new products have been added to the DWD climate prediction website, such as sub-seasonal climate predictions and statistically selected seasonal climate predictions.

The fifth edition of the German newsletter on climate predictions and climate projections has been published in October 2022.

Portugal Space together with the AIR Centre promote a call to the internationalization of European SMEs developing Copernicus-based products.

The annual Spanish FPCUP event with the industry, and other agents, took place on 13th July, organized by CDTI & ESA BIC Madrid.

The fourth edition of the German newsletter on climate predictions and climate projections has been published in April 2022.

Hot on the heels of the recent publication of the Joint Communication on an EU approach for Space Traffic Management (STM) on 15 February 2022, DG DEFIS presented the results of its recently finalised study on “The rise of importance of Space Traffic Management”

PRAXI Network, in collaboration with the National Observatory of Athens, offers acceleration services to businesses and start-ups in order to help them create innovative solutions based on Copernicus data & services.

Portugal Space and the AIR Centre have just opened a call for the Internationalization of European SMEs that develop Copernicus based products and that want to participate at an event in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 29-30 of March! The deadline for submissions is the 4th of February 2022.

Papers on remote sensing techniques and data in LULUCF monitoring and the application of these data in national greenhouse gas inventories can be submitted for a special issue of the open access journal ‘Remote Sensing’ until 31 May 2022.

New seasonal climate predictions for Germany and German cities, Europe and the world on DWD's Climate Prediction Website - now also completely available in English!

The third edition (2021) of the Newsletter on Climate Predictions and Climate Projections (in German language) has been published by the DWD in October.

Seasonal climate predictions have been added to DWD’s climate predictions website as a complement to the decadal climate predictions.

Portugal Space together with the AIR Centre is opening the first out of four calls to promote the internationalization of European SMEs developing Copernicus-based products.

CNES has been organising the pre-incubation of young start-up companies planning to offer services using Copernicus data. Incubation support will be offered by Aerospace Valley and CNES.

This action will support European SMEs that offer services based on Copernicus data in their efforts of exporting their activities to several African countries.

Great interest in virtual training workshop on Earth Observation for Disaster Risk Reduction.

JNCC’s Copernicus User Uptake Action was a winner at the Geography in Government Awards 2021.