Copernicus Downstream Applications and the European Data Economy

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Europe needs to strengthen its position as provider of products and services based on data, enabling new market opportunities. The EU is promoting the use and uptake of Copernicus, a leading European data provider, as a driver of innovation for the European Data Economy.
• Actions under this Topic will contribute to increase the integration and uptake of Copernicus into the economy, and/or to solve societal challenges.
• The integration of Copernicus data assets with data contributed by other vertical domains into sizeable and scalable applications enabled by modern ICT technologies will greatly enhance Copernicus downstream market. Likewise, many vertical domains (such as, for example, agriculture, food security, health, energy, natural resources, environmental monitoring, insurances, tourism, security etc…) will benefit from the use of Copernicus.

Actions under this Topic will bring to market new or improved applications, products and services by exploiting Copernicus data assets and services products.

To achieve the objectives described above, the project are required to adopt state-of-the-art ICT technologies (such as, for example, Big Data and AI technologies in their wider declinations), and make use of existing European data infrastructures, such as Copernicus DIAS platforms, European open data portals, and industrial data platforms.

The technical solutions to be adopted should be user-friendly and work at the scale of the large quantities of data involved. They should be adopted to contribute to the digitization challenges of the European industry by opening up innovative business avenuesopportunities and to support societal challenges.

Copernicus data and services products will be at the core of the projects’ data value chains and integration activatesactivities needed to fulfil the industrial and users requirements that will drive the actions. Whenever relevant, the link with European satellite positioning/navigation/timing technologies should be exploited.

Applicants are required to present initial qualifying items of their business plan in the proposal, which will then have to be fully developed as part of the project’s exploitation plan.

Activities are expected to start at TRL 5 and achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project.

Activities are expected to achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.