The Polar Thematic Exploitation Platform (PTEP) provides a complete working environment where users can access algorithms and data remotely. Further information on the PTEP environment is available at the PTEP home page at https://portal.polartep.io/. ESA CVL will use PTEP as a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) and integration with PTEP is in progress. PTEP will allow CVL users to have Virtual Machines where they can run Jupyter Notebooks etc.