The [email protected] demonstrator was recently broadcast on NPO as part of an informative featurette movie aimed at engaging people of all ages to the advancements of floating technology.

In celebration of the Climate Action Summit 2021, publisher Palgrave Macmillan has a 20% discount on the book Climate Resilient Urban Areas, edited by our co-founder Rutger De Graaf-van Dinther with co-authors including Henk Ovink, Arnoud Molenaar, Floris Boogaard, Nanco Dolman, Jeroen Rijke, Derk Loorbach, Margo Van Den Brink, Jeroen Kluck, Dr. Matthew F., Frans van de Ven, Fransje Hooimeijer and many other great contributors.

The [email protected] project has recently published a new report titled the Floating Island Development and Deployment Roadmap.

The Netherlands Water Partnership has recently shared an article to spread awareness of the achievements and goals of Blue21 and how they align with initiatives of the Netherlands Water Partnership.

As highlighted by Blue21 cofounder, Rutger de Graaf, “Around the world people are seeing how they need to redefine their relationship with water.. Floating solutions can make cities more resilient and create new ecosystems at the same time. We joined NWP so that we can help incorporate these solutions in the international Dutch delta technology ‘toolkit’.”

Read the full article here.

The [email protected] report on “Technical, comfort and safety requirements of [email protected]” is now also available!

Blue21 researcher and intern, Arnav Doss has completed his graduation thesis, “Impact of box-type floating breakwater on motion response of hydrodynamically coupled floating platforms downstream”. His thesis analyses a few design variables to find an effective floating breakwater configuration that minimizes motion response in platforms downstream.  

“[email protected] business case” report from the 3-year (2017-2020) EU Horizon2020-funded research project, [email protected]a, is now available.