About us

We are Rotterdam Partners. Rotterdam is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud of Rotterdam. Proud of its energy, its innovative and enterprising character and its port. Proud of its down-to-earth charm and international flair. Rotterdam is always on the move and that’s why we are convinced the city still offers a world of opportunities to be seized.

Strengthen

Rotterdam Partners is dedicated to moving the city forward. We focus on Rotterdam’s image and promote the Rotterdam region nationally and internationally. We open Rotterdam’s doors to future visitors, companies, residents and students and show them around our city. We enthuse and inspire them. We also convince them to visit, do business, locate their companies and hold their congresses in Rotterdam. And we encourage them to come here to live or study. Our broad spectrum of activities makes it difficult to sum up our organisation in one word. We’re responsible for city marketing, acquisition marketing and helping with the development of a better business climate. This is how we strengthen the Rotterdam economy in the broadest sense of the term.

Distinctive

All our employees are passionate about Rotterdam. With unbridled enthusiasm and energy, they put their knowledge to work to facilitate the city’s progress in their own unique way. They help tourists and expats get around. They attract international companies, congress organisers and intermediaries from the travel industry and national and international journalists to the city. They promote Rotterdam through campaigns and ensure that people around the world can discover that Rotterdam is the place to be. They roll out the red carpet and extend a warm welcome. And they do it for everyone: from companies and visitors to residents and students.

Together

Rotterdam Partners serves as the lynchpin within the city. We speak the language of administrators and companies, and we know the influencers and decision-makers in Rotterdam. This makes us uniquely able to connect people from inside and outside
Rotterdam quickly and efficiently. And when necessary we play a crucial role in enabling initiatives to take off and flourish. We are independent and with our knowledge and services we can make the difference.

Rotterdam Partners believes in the power of collaboration. The city’s best ambassadors are the people of Rotterdam themselves. Rotterdam Partners has access to a large number of networks of Rotterdam organisations who support our shared mission to move the city forward. We give our networks an express role in promoting Rotterdam. We believe this lies at the heart of the strength of Rotterdam city marketing. Together we as a city can make an outstanding impression.

Our networks

We believe in the power of cooperation. The best ambassadors of the city are the Rotterdam people themselves. That is why Rotterdam Partners works together with many parties in the city on a daily basis, including government organizations, companies, educational institutions, lobby groups, service providers and intermediaries. This is an overview of the networks linked to Rotterdam Partners:

Together with its Convention and Tourism partners, Rotterdam Partners promotes the city as an attractive destination for tourists, businesses and conference organizers. Members of this network are primarily businessmen, institutions and organizations that benefit from this and are active in the commercial and/or tourist visitor market.

Rotterdam Convention Partners & Rotterdam Tourism Partners

The Rotterdam Knowledge Partners network consists of scientists, researchers and experts from various knowledge institutes. Together with Rotterdam Partners, they focus on the international profile of Rotterdam as a congress city and on strengthening the image of Rotterdam as a knowledge city.

Rotterdam Knowledge Partners

The Rotterdam Woon Partners network seeks to adjust the image of Rotterdam as a city to live in. Within this network, some 30 urban parties (housing associations, investors, developers and estate agents) work together with Rotterdam Partners, the municipality of Rotterdam and POM (Platform Ontwikkelingen Rotterdam, i.e., Platform Developments Rotterdam) to put Rotterdam in the limelight as an attractive place to live.

Woon Partners

Managers of leading companies and social, cultural and knowledge institutions are represented in the Rotterdam Economic Partners network. Through advice, network meetings, Joint Marketing and promoting dialogue between the Municipal Executive and parties in the city, this network contributes to a strong economic policy of the municipality of Rotterdam.

Rotterdam Economic Partners

The International Advisory Board (IAB) is an advisory board consisting of international experts from the world of business, science and the public sector. On the basis of biennial meetings and active, theme-based programmes in the city (in 2017 it is ‘Culture’), the IAB advises the Rotterdam Municipal Executive on the urban policies to be pursued.

International Advisory Board

R’damse Nieuwe is a community of and for young, entrepreneurial Rotterdammers. R’damse Nieuwe wants to stimulate the involvement of young people in the Rotterdam economy and offer them a platform for sharing ideas, knowledge and experiences. R’damse Nieuwe builds a bridge between generations and aims to create connections and opportunities through ambition, inspiration and cooperation.

R'damse Nieuwe

Our work method

Rotterdam has received incredible praise in recent years. The city is internationally and nationally known as edgy and innovative, and ‘the place to be’. Rotterdam reaps the benefits of this positive image and continues to grow into a city where people want to be: to live, for a holiday, for a conference or to undertake business. Read more about our target groups and sectors.

Our team

What drives us is Rotterdam. We are proud of Rotterdam. Our employees have an incredibly big heart for Rotterdam. With great pleasure and enthusiasm they use their knowledge to contribute in their own unique way to the progress of the city. We would like to introduce you to our team members.

Vacancies

We are proud of Rotterdam and want to bring the city forward. Do you share our pride in Rotterdam and do you want to strengthen Rotterdam even more with us? Are you like the Rotterdammers: a thinker and a doer? Then working at Rotterdam Partners is something for you. View the vacancies.

Rotterdam. Make It Happen.

The strength of Rotterdam city marketing lies in the collaboration of many enthusiastic organizations and individuals in the city. Under the flag 'Rotterdam. Make It Happen. "Rotterdam Partners works together with the City of Rotterdam, the Port of Rotterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam Festivals and Rotterdam Topsport, supplemented by various other Rotterdam organizations to profile Rotterdam in a positive, powerful and active way at home and abroad.