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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Co-UDlabs will offer free Transnational Access (TA) to its 17 high-end experimental facilities including laboratories, field sites and large repositories of experimental data in order to encourage co-operation among researchers, practitioners, SMEs, local regulators and administrations to tackle challenges in the management and operation of wastewater systems.

Access to Co-UDlabs facilities can be requested by submitting a proposal including a description of the work that the applicants wish to carry out. The first call is now closed. The next TA call will open in October 2023.

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Co-UDlabs WEBINAR Uncertainty assessment

Co-UDlabs webinar on Routine Uncertainty Assessment

4 May 2023
Uncertainty Assessment should be significantly developed and systematically applied in urban drainage monitoring as a standard part of best practice metrology. However, methods and calculations may frequently appear as too...
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Co-UDlabs workshop at Novatech 2023

4 May 2023
The Co-UDlabs consortium is organising a workshop on July 3, 2023 in Lyon (France) to launch its second global call for Transnational Access (TA). The workshop aims to be a...
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IKT starts TA project at its Large Test Facility

28 April 2023
Practical research for the Transnational Access project "Assessment of Inspection tools for Rising Mains (AIR)" in IKT´s Large Test Facility (IKT LTF) officially started on April 24, 2023. A complex...