Deadline Extended! 2nd Co-UDlabs transnational access call

🌍 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 facilities for research stays of up to three months for diverse and inter-disciplinary user groups. The goal is to pool together the added value of…

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UDC finalises transnational access at the Bens wastewater plant

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 A Coruña metropolitan area. They were joined by representatives of all the partnering institutions of the TA’s user-group, including two European SMEs in Photrack AG…

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Co-UDlabs holds successful Hackathon on the way to its 2nd TA call

Co-UDlabs celebrated its 2nd Hackathon event on September 6, 2023, one key step in the preparation of Co-UDlabs’ Transnational Access call, which will close on October 6, 2023. The online event had very good attendance and provided researchers and teams from all over the world with an opportunity to present, discuss, and improve their early…

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UDC and UDFJC finalise their TA at the BLOCK facility

On April 25, 2023, Co-UDlabs partners at the University of A Coruña (UDC, Spain) finalised the second Transnational Access at their installations. Visiting researchers from the Universidad Distrital Francisco JosĂ© de Caldas (Bogotá, Colombia) worked for over three months — from mid-January to the end of April 2023 — at the BLOCK facility at UDC’s…

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IKT starts TA project at its Large Test Facility

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 test setup in IKT´s Large Test Facility (IKT LTF) consisting of pipes and defects is going to be used for the scientific assessment of inspection…

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BENS TA begins in earnest at wastewater treatment plant

The third Transnational Access experiment at a Universidade da Coruña (UDC) facility has begun on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Researchers from two small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Photrack AG from Switzerland and Ubertone from France, have joined UDC staff at the research installation at Coruña’s Bens wastewater treatment plant, managed by EDAR BENS S.A. The…

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First A/B FLUME TA project ends at University of Sheffield

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 University of Exeter visited the University of Sheffield to perform experiments at the A/B FLUME facility of our Research Infrastructure. Work has been investigating the…

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UDC finalises transnational access at the STREET facility

NTNU researcher Spyridon Pritsis works on the research platform of the STREET facility at UDC-CITEEC

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 transnational access (TA) to the STREET facility, at the CITEEC premises in the Elviña Campus of the Galician university. From mid-October to December 14, 2022,…

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Co-UDlabs’ Transnational Access programme officially begins!

The Co-UDlabs Transnational Access programme was officially kicked off with a visit by the ITWH user-group at the OTHU facility of INSA Lyon, a partner of Co-UDlabs and part of our research infrastructure. The brief preliminary visit for the ‘In-situ SUDS modelling‘ proposal was carried out at the end of August 2022, and it is…

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Co-UDlabs at the 1st Symposium on Urban Flood Experiments

A delegation of Co-UDlabs partners and researchers was invited to the 1st Symposium on Urban Flood Experiments, an expert-group event hosted by INSA Lyon on September 1 and 2, 2022. The symposium was coordinated by Emmanuel Mignot (INSA-LMFA) and Benjamin Dewals (University of LiĂ©ge), and included invitees from several research institutions across seven European countries.…

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