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With this brochure, you will learn about the many facets of Copernicus : its actors and their roles, as well as its mechanisms, its success stories, and its benefits and applications for Europe and its citizens, with a special focus on six cross-cutting topics dealing with major societal goals.

This document is available in 24 different languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.

You are just joining the Copernicus community? Do not wait anymore and learn more about the programme!

You will find here a general overview of Copernicus, as well as six documents introducing its different services. A quick presentation of the Sentinel satellites - the Copernicus dedicated satellites - is also provided in three different fact sheets.

Since the first Copernicus satellite Sentinel-1A entered service in 2014, the impacts of the programme are witnessed beyond the upstream industry, and bring economic, social, environmental and strategic benefits to the European EO downstream sector as well as to the wider community of final users.

These fact sheets demonstrate tangible examples of cost reductions, additional revenues or environmental improvements which are great illustrations of the contributions Copernicus can generate for both EO applications developers and non space markets.

With its free, full and open data policy, Copernicus intends to boost innovation and economic growth, making the commercial downstream sector a key element and therefore a prime target of the EU policies and funding instruments.

In this context, the European Commission, other public institutions and the private sector have designed several funding instruments which can help developing Copernicus-related business. These fact sheets aim to help companies to find the most relevant ones.

The vast majority of data and information delivered by the Copernicus Space infrastructure and the Copernicus services are made available and accessible to any citizen and any organisation around the world on a free, full and open access basis, through a series of access points.

These documents will help you understand how to access this huge amount of data delivered by Copernicus every day.

The Copernicus Incubation Programme launched by the European Commission supports European entrepreneurs and start-ups working with Earth observation and big data from Copernicus, to create innovative, commercially viable products and services.

The growth of Copernicus and the growth of our networks go hand-in-hand. To unleash the full potential of what Copernicus can do for our planet and everyone on it, we need to work together. Are you ready to join us?

In this sections you will find the 'Window on Copernicus' in French, German, Italian, Spanish and English.