The vision that guides iCUPE's activities is that we must establish and maintain coherent and coordinated long-term observations and research activities on environmental quality and natural resources in the polar areas. The core idea of ​​iCUPE is the development of new, integrated, controlled and harmonized in situ observations and satellite data in polar areas, as well as data products for end users.

iCUPE combines integrated in situ and satellite Earth observation with a modeling platform. In this way 1) synthesizes data from long-term global measurements, intensive campaigns and satellites, collected during the project or provided by ongoing international initiatives 2) correlates observed parameters with impacts and 3) provides new data products , metrics and indicators to stakeholders regarding the environmental status, availability and extraction of natural resources in polar areas. These data, metrics and indicators will be targeted to the identified stakeholders. They will be useful for policy development and for improving and clearly communicating our multidisciplinary understanding of the state of the polar environment and the dynamics of pollution in the future. The knowledge generated is relevant to the general population, policy makers and scientists. They will be useful for policy development and for improving and clearly communicating our multidisciplinary understanding of the state of the polar environment and the dynamics of pollution in the future. The knowledge generated is relevant to the general population, policy makers and scientists. They will be useful for policy development and for improving and clearly communicating our multidisciplinary understanding of the state of the polar environment and the dynamics of pollution in the future. The knowledge generated is relevant to the general population, policy makers and scientists.

ICUPE's ambition is to make significant progress towards better integration between existing in situ observation networks for polar measurement data on short-lived air pollutants, including aerosols and trace gases, as well as contaminants. The focus is on the availability of long-term datasets and facilitating intensive campaigns, as well as piloting near real-time data. Quality control, data flows and data flows will be harmonized within iCUPE.

iCUPE is a 3 year project and the work and activities carried out within iCUPE are distributed to 7 work packages, 18 tasks, 56 deliverables and 30 milestones.