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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The first 18 months of Co-UDlabs: successful review for the project

2 February 2023
Reporting is an essential activity in Horizon 2020 project management, as every project coordinator needs not only to maintain control and steer project progress, but also regularly inform the European...
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First A/B FLUME TA project ends at University of Sheffield

19 January 2023
Researchers at University of Sheffield (USFD) have recently finalised supporting their first Co-UDlabs TA project. From late October 2022 to January 2023, researchers from INSA Lyon, LMFA (Lyon) and the...
NTNU researcher Spyridon Pritsis works on the research platform of the STREET facility at UDC-CITEEC

UDC finalises transnational access at the STREET facility

15 December 2022
Following two months of intense laboratory work, UDC — a partner of Co-UDlabs and the provider of three facilities to the project's Research Infrastructure — has finalised work on the...