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World's first park with interactive lighting through plant power
Rotterdam is the first city worldwide to realize a park with interactive lighting powered by plants: The Park of Tommorow. Imagine yourself walking through the park late at night,...
More >Rotterdam acts to halve CO2 emissions with over 100 partners
22 Nov 2019 – Rotterdam delivers own climate agreement following the COP21 Paris agreement objectives. Within 10 years, Rotterdam will reduce the emissions of CO2 and other greenh...
More >World premiere: City of Rotterdam and Lightwell launch CENT_R
During the Smart City Expo 2019 in Barcelona, the City of Rotterdam and the developer, Lightwell, launched the CENT-R, a multifunctional and modular unit that is to become the sta...
More >Support for startups and scale-ups needed in difficult 'climate'
Despite the economic boom, the climate for high-growth companies, or scale-ups, has deteriorated over the past year. This is evident from the ScaleUp Dashboard 2019 of Erasmus Cen...
More >Sustainable shore-side electricity for world's largest crane ships
Heerema Marine Contractors will provide its crane vessels in the Calandkanaal in Rotterdam with clean energy. The large ships no longer need to use diesel generators at the quay, ...
More >CityLab010. The idea factory of Rotterdam
Let’s say you are an inhabitant of Rotterdam, you’ve come up with a great idea for the city and would like to get started with your plan. But ... where do you start? Who should yo...
More >Skoon launches world’s first sharing mobile energy platform
With brief elevator pitches Skoon Energy launched the Skoon Cloud - World’s first online platform for battery sharing. In addition they unveiled a special battery trailer. This ...
More >More business travellers to Rotterdam due to overtourism
Business conferences and events are changing, and traditional meeting destinations are changing along with them. In addition, more smaller cities - like Rotterdam - are getting in...
More >Dutch economy most competitive
In 2019, the Dutch economy will for the first time be the most competitive in Europe. Worldwide, only Singapore, the United States and Hong Kong are still ahead. This is reflected...
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