Innovating the Urban Drainage System:
a new collaborative approach
Existing UDS are ageing, but they are critical for protecting public health, reducing pollution impacts and urban flooding risks.
The EU-funded Co-UDlabs project aims to develop innovative solutions and technologies to allow existing UD to innovate for better facing current and future challenges such as increasing urbanization and climate change.
Our objectives
Innovating the Urban Drainage System:
a new collaborative approach
Existing UDS are ageing, but they are critical for protecting public health, reducing pollution impacts and urban flooding risks.
The EU-funded Co-UDlabs project aims to develop innovative solutions and technologies to allow existing UD to innovate for better facing current and future challenges such as increasing urbanization and climate change.
Our objectives

About Co-UDlabs

Co-UDLABS (Building Collaborative Urban Drainage research lab communities) is a Horizon 2020 project funded under the Research Infrastructures programme (INFRAIA-02-2020 - Integrating Activities for Starting Communities).
 
Bringing together 9 partners offering access to 17 unique research facilities, Co-UDlabs offers training and free access to a wide range of high-level scientific instruments, smart monitoring technologies and digital water analysis tools for advancing knowledge and innovation in Urban drainage systems.

CONSORTIUM

9 partners
7 countries

DURATION

years

START-END DATE

1 May 2021
30 April 2025

BUDGET

M€

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UDRAIN, first global network of large Research Infrastructures (RI) on urban drainage systems

2 April 2025
Introduction  Urban drainage systems are at the heart of sustainable, resilient, and smart urban water management. But testing, validating, and implementing innovative solutions in this sector has often faced a...
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Co-UDlabs final infoday

20 March 2025
As Co-UDlabs is coming to an end in April 2025, partners organised a public final event to celebrate the conclusion of its activities and its early and consolidated results. The...
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Webinar: Techniques for monitoring underground infrastructure  

19 February 2025
Current developments for sewers Summary by Thomas Brüggemann, IKT    University of Sheffield, IKT – Institute for Underground Infrastructure and Deltares organized a webinar on 30th of January 2025 about...