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 second call is now open! Deadline to submit your proposal: October 13, 2023.

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Deadline Extended! 2nd Co-UDlabs transnational access call

29 September 2023
🌍 The deadline to apply for our 2023 Transnational Access call has been officially extended to October 13, 2023! We are offering free-of-charge access to 16 of our installations and...
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UDC finalises transnational access at the Bens wastewater plant

21 September 2023
On September 19, 2023, our partners at the Universidade da Coruña hosted the final meeting of their Transnational Access (TA) at the Bens facility, the wastewater treatment plant of the...
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26th European Junior Scientists Workshop (EJSW) – Call for abstracts

29 August 2023
INSA Lyon and Deltares (Co-UDlabs partners), in collaboration with the Sewer Systems & Processes Working Group of the IWA – IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage, are organising the 26th...