Rotterdam is a digital pioneer city on the national and European stage

The rules for sports, artistic and cultural activities, contact-based industries, shops and education will be relaxed on Saturday 15 January 2022. The government has decided that ...

For many, he is known as a blogger, the founder of WeTransfer, and more recently also of Adelee, a messaging platform for bringing friends and families closer together. For himsel...

It has become clear in the past week that the Omicron variant is spreading very rapidly in the Netherlands too. The Outbreak Management Team (OMT) expects that this variant will b...

However, it does appear cautiously that we are past this peak of the delta variant. The effects of the measures and our joint efforts are therefore visible. But as long as hospita...

Starting a business in a largely new market cannot possibly be an easy task. And if you ask Julian Jagtenberg, founder and CEO of Somnox, he would tell you that indeed, it isn’t. ...

“Just because we are successful in the Netherlands doesn’t mean we would be successful in other countries. In each place, we need to start a company from scratch and understand wh...

Marnix Krikke has been Chairman of the working group Port and Maritime of the NLAI Coalition since this summer. The working group has the ambition to accelerate the datafication a...

Here’s a challenge for you: Think about your online behavior and try to name a few of the digital platforms you use in your day-to-day. Google? LinkedIn? Amazon? Wikipedia? It’s n...

“Over the past years, we have built an organic growth machine. More than half of our people are working in a department focused on growth. Now it’s time to add another layer to th...

Rotterdam produces 10 million kilograms of organic household waste every year, most of which has the potential to be transformed into valuable new materials. By 2030, The Netherla...

Imagine an economy with no waste. An economy where materials are reused over and over again, and an economy that drives the carbon neutrality of an entire country.   In about 30...

From 2 August to 1 October 2021, new candidates can register for the third round of allocating grants under the Smart Energy Systems 2021 programme. They can apply for up to €100,...

The City of Rotterdam is making energy cleaner, smarter and more efficient with its Smart Energy Systems (SES2021) Programme.  Seven Rotterdam initiatives today received a financi...

Vincent Karremans is the kind of person who likes to make things happen. If he finds a problem, he will also find a solution, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that entrepreneurs...

15 companies hailing from 11 countries were selected by an expert panel of industry experts, investors and entrepreneurs for the 6th PortXL acceleration program in Rotterdam. Sta...

The Rotterdam Energy Transition Fund, a collaboration between InnovationQuarter and the City of Rotterdam, was launched on Thursday, 3 June. A €100 million fund is now available t...

Djordy Seelmann is a guy driven by purpose. He is a tech entrepreneur, he is passionate about real estate and building impactful ventures, and he has always wanted to run a compan...

The Borderless Data Landscape (in Dutch: Grenzeloos Datalandschap), a collaboration between the city of Rotterdam, the city of The Hague and the province of South-Holland, has sta...

Are you considering installing a green roof, water storage or solar panels on your roof? This calculation tool will help you. The construction of a multifunctional roof requires ...

The number of people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 is falling rapidly. And more and more people are being vaccinated. The government has therefore decided to bring forw...

The FERM foundation has been granted the OKTT status from its partnership with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). This is an important step in the goal of making the Port ...

The numbers of new ICU and hospital admissions for COVID-19 have continued to fall. This means the government’s decision to take the second step of the plan to reopen society on ...

The number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals has fallen slightly. And, with more than 6 million vaccine doses administered, the number of vaccinated people is growing steadily. T...

If you were to describe Hicham Shatou, CEO of medtech scale-up LeQuest, in just a few words, it would probably sound like: A man on a mission to improve healthcare. Originally fro...

The European economic stimulation program "Opportunities for West" received an additional impulse of over 82 million euros from the European Union from the so-called "REACT EU" fu...

Today - 26 April - is World Intellectual Property Day. This day was created by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) to draw attention to the theme of intellectual prope...

More and more people are being vaccinated against corona, which means that fewer people will fall ill soon. It is expected that the number of new hospitalizations will decrease. O...

"Rotterdam is a digital pioneer city on the national and European stage." According to the jury of the Netexplo Linking Cities Award, this is the reason that Rotterdam received an...

NorthC Datacenters, the largest regional data centre company in the Netherlands, is to expand its existing data centre in Rotterdam Zestienhoven. Whereas most data centres focus o...

“Innovation is not the invention,” says Jan van der Tempel. “Innovation is getting your invention to market and making it work.” As the founder, inventor and CEO of Ampelmann, the...

For the seventh year in a row, the City of Rotterdam's CityLab010 program is opening its doors to innovative ideas from the people of Rotterdam. This year over 3 million Euros is ...

As an organization, how can you encourage your employees to get fitter? By combining gamification and blended care and making healthy behaviour fun, according to entrepreneur and ...

Connecting start-ups and scale-ups in Life Sciences & Health with relevant investors and funds. That was the goal of the matchmaking event Healthy Funding IV, which took place on ...

Kars Veling might have one of the shortest LinkedIn descriptions out there: “Fascinated by internet technology.” It’s concise, to the point and quite frankly, it says it all.   ...

There are still too many people infected with the coronavirus. The pressure on hospitals is still too high. That is why the government is not going to relax the rules any further,...

Five innovative companies have already started innovations in the city and port. From the 2nd of March until the 2nd of May 2021, new applicants can register for the second subsid...

The coronavirus measures are testing everyone’s resilience, both physically and mentally. The longer the crisis continues, the more difficult it becomes for everyone. Now that a y...

The fourth edition of Healthy Funding held on Thursday 4th of February, was co-hosted by Healthy.Capital. This investment fund invests in young, promising Dutch companies that foc...

Michiel Kuijpers and Daan Lamens were once fellow law students. Now, with their company, Euronitrile they have developed a biodegradable, disposable medical glove. This should, fi...

Contribution towards fixed costs first quarter 2021 started SME entrepreneurs who will be affected by the measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the first quarter of...

Judith Eyck is the type of person who goes for the things she’s set her mind to. Even when they seem distant and scary. Even when she, herself, can use a word of encouragement. Sh...

A 3D scanner that measures the growth of a premature baby from outside the incubator. International medical science follows with suspicion how former Electrical Engineering studen...

A care innovation does not always have to be technologically advanced. It can also be a social innovation. A good example of this is the KoersKaart Fit in de Nacht, a 'serious gam...

At the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 (CAS 2021), Mayor Aboutaleb of Rotterdam presented the ten-year program '1,000 Cities Adapt Now' to world leaders including heads of state An...

How can we ship goods throughout Europe in only a couple of hours rather than days? And all over the world within a couple of days? A study is being conducted in the Randstad into...

  Anyone wanting to get a Life Sciences & Health innovation onto the market as a starter cannot do without funds or subsidies. InnovationQuarter helps companies to innovate and i...

In the Toronto Star, a Canadian newspaper, the City of Rotterdam’s vision on managing water is set as an example for Canadian cities. In the article, an overview is given of the u...

In wrapping up 2020, we’re choosing a different approach. Because if there’s one thing we learned: negative adjectives and sad stories are not what startup and scale-up founders a...

Coronavirus is once again spreading rapidly. In recent weeks, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of infections, with figures up to around 9,000 per day. The number...