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Blue21 young talent Dorette Regout graduated last October

Blue21 young talent Dorette Regout graduated last October

Congratulations to Blue21 thesis student, Dorette Regout, for successfully defended her master's thesis at Technische Universiteit Delft and passed with distinction! On 29 October, Dorette gave her final thesis presentation on "Hydroelastic analysis of a multi-module...

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Blue21 co-founder presented at SIWW2021

Blue21 co-founder presented at SIWW2021

Last June the co-founder of Blue21, Rutger de Graaf, presented Blue21 at the Urban Resilience- "Coastal cities adaptation" session during the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2021. The session focused more specifically on climate-resilient solutions to two of...

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Blue21 co-founder interviewed by de Volkskrant

Blue21 co-founder interviewed by de Volkskrant

Blue21 co-founder, Rutger de Graaf, was interviewed by the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, together with Waterstudio.NL founder, Koen Olthuis, about building a self-sufficient floating city by 2030. The article, "Oplossing woningnood en stijgende zeespiegel: bouw een...

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Proceedings of PtW-WCFS2020 is now available

Proceedings of PtW-WCFS2020 is now available

The book of proceedings from PtW-WCFS2020 is now published by Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions. Paving the Waves- 2nd World Conference on Floating Solutions 2020 (PtW-WCFS2020) was organized by Blue21, Waterstudio.NL, Society of Floating Solutions...

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INNOZOWA illustrated in PostNL stamp

INNOZOWA illustrated in PostNL stamp

The Innozowa Floating Solar PV project is now on the new PostNL innovation stamp! Blue21 is excited with this exceptional honor and recognition of our work. Innozowa (2017-2020) project aims to create flexible floating solar PV systems which allow water maintenance...

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A new generation of floating innovators completed their thesis

A new generation of floating innovators completed their thesis

Recently two students from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences have completed their thesis in collaboration with Blue21. Jeroen van Dijk finished his thesis in Watermanagement: ‘Success and failure factors of large-scale floating development”. Jeroen partly based...

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