About RDM Rotterdam
RDM Rotterdam is described as a place on the historic yard of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM), home to innovative companies, technology education, high-quality test facilities and field labs. The text presents it as a place for growing and developing innovative solutions for the smart port of the future.
Smart Port Focus
RDM is described as the place for innovation in the port and the port industrial complex, where education and business work on developments that contribute to a smart port. Students learn practical skills alongside theory, and the combination of education and business, working together from idea to prototype, is presented as making RDM a genuine innovation hub.
Key Areas
- Digitalization: deploying digital technologies for sustainable product and transportation chains, such as drones for inspection.
- Offshore wind: the text cites the European climate goal of an 80 to 95 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which it says requires systemic changes.
- Hydrogen: the port must be CO2 neutral by 2050, and start-ups and scale-ups are working on new emission-free systems and sustainable transport.
Entrepreneurs, Students and Visitors
The site offers sections for Business (entrepreneurship), Learn (education) and Meet (networking and visits). The RDM program office also profiles a ‘Quay Cracker’, a student or graduate doing an inspiring internship, interesting research or working at RDM after graduation.
Why It Matters for the Smart Port
In its own terms, RDM aims to turn tomorrow’s innovations into applications today, bringing together businesses, students and test facilities to develop solutions for the smart port.