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About: EU project called - Co-UDlabs - Innovating the Urban Drainage System: a new collaborative approach.
Video details & Credits:
- Duration: 130 seconds;
- Format: 2d graphics;
- Type: Animated Explainer Video;
- Agency: Co-UDlabs (France)(https://co-udlabs.eu/);
- Production: Darvideo Animation Studio | darvideo.tv;
- Timing: 18 weeks.
Story: Urban Drainage Systems are critical infrastructures providing flood risk reduction, safe sanitation, and environmental protection by returning treated waste and storm water securely to the natural water cycle. However, existing European Urban Drainage Systems are ageing and deteriorating. Innovative approaches are essential to address global challenges such as population growth, climate change, untreated stormwater, and public health threats caused by new pollutants and pathogens.
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, the aim of Co-UDlabs is to promote innovation in urban drainage research infrastructures, such as Nature Based Solutions and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems. To test and validate innovative ideas, methods and technologies, Co-UDlabs offers FREE Transnational Access to its 17 research facilities located at 7 partner institutions across Europe. This is done through two calls for applications, open in October 2021 and October 2023. Selected user groups from Europe and beyond will use these facilities to run experiments, measurements, and analyses.
Our research facilities are designed for research across 7 fields of expertise: urban flooding, runoff pollution, in-sewer process, performance of urban assets, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS), asset deterioration, and digital water solutions. We also carry out Joint Research Activities designed to improve the research capacity of the infrastructures and the services that are offered to users and Training and Networking Activities open to researchers, industry, practitioners and utilities. To find out more about Co-UDlabs visit our website and follow us on social media!
