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

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 Commission about progression of the work towards its agreed objectives. In December 2022, after one and a half year of collaborative work, the Co-UDlabs team…

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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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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 Liége), and included invitees from several research institutions across seven European countries.…

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Co-UDlabs’ Metrology Toolbox presented at SPN10 conference

Co-UDlabs participated in the 10th Sewer Processes and Networks international conference (SPN10) in Graz, Austria. SPN is a renowned global venue for advancement and knowledge-sharing on urban drainage and water management. Co-UDlabs coordinated a pre-conference workshop on August 23, 2022, for the first public release — specifically version 0.1.7 — of the Urban Drainage Metrology…

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Researchers go on the Co-UDlabs Hackathon prize ‘field trip’ (with an eye on the TA)

On November 23 and 25, 2021, Co-UDlabs successfully organised a global ‘Hackathon‘ event to meet with young researchers and practitioners from a number of scientific and technology fields. The main goal was to present this audience with the core challenges that urban drainage systems are facing today: climate change, extreme weather conditions, infrastructural stress and…

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