The Copernicus Global Land Service has newly released yearly global land cover layers from 2015 onwards. Since one static global map cannot fit the needs of different user communities, Copernicus went the next step and provides dynamic land cover layers which allow to tune the map to your own needs, i.e. Forest monitoring, Sustainable Development Goals, biodiversity or ecosystem services monitoring. Therefore, the land cover layers provide next to a standard classified map also a set of continuous cover layers (forest, shrubland, herbaceous vegetation, cropland, moss & lichens, wetland, bare, built-up, and permanent water). These cover fractions ease the mapping in different schemes (i.e. Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) or Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES)), facilitating the usage into decision making systems that allow authorities to manage and report. These covers can also be extend well-known high quality continental land cover maps as European Coordinating of Information on the Environment (CORINE) land cover map or the American National Land Cover Database (NLCD) to a global scale. This paper presents a method to extend the European CORINE land cover globally using the Copernicus Global Land Cover layers.