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.
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.

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€

Get access to our research infrastructures! 

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 third call is opening on December 15! Deadline to submit your proposal: January 5, 2024.

Latest news

publication

Scientific publication: Towards non-contact pollution monitoring in sewers with hyperspectral imaging

Co-UDlabs project partner, EAWAG, with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Headwall Photonics have published a paper in the Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology journal. This paper is available in open access....
publication

Scientific publication: Combining a daily temperature pattern analysis and a heat-pulse system to estimate sediment depths in sewer systems

Co-UDlabs project partners, Universidade da Coruña, INSA Lyon and EAWAG have published a paper with the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, TU Delft and Urban Water Engineering, Luleå University of...
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Co-UDlabs successfully closes its TA calls with over 30 funded projects

Besides its research, community-building, and training activities, one of the core missions of the Co-UDlabs project, an EU-funded INFRAIA framework for large research infrastructures collaboration across Europe, was that of...