Day 8: Today was our final day in Enschede as we were heading to Münster, Germany for a day trip. I woke up early, finished packing, ate breakfast, and met with the group to begin our bus ride. After a little over an hour on the bus, we made it into central Münster, a city…
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A Day in Munster
05/10/2026 Today we departed from Enschede and stopped in Munster for a day trip before making our way back across the country to Rotterdam in the evening. While in Munster we started our day off with a small tour of a portion of the city where we learned about the history of many of the…
Day 2 in Rotterdam: Delta Works
Today was a super cool experience as we visited Delta Works which protects the Netherlands from water. We began the day with breakfast at the hotel and then departed on an hour-long bus ride to Delta Works. When we got to Delta Works, we had 30 minutes to explore. During this time, we were able…
Mooving on Up
We began our day by visiting Rotterdam’s Floating Farm. The Floating Farm is a prototype designed to create a more circular farming process. It is stationed in water, similarly to the floating houses we visited earlier in the trip. With the constant changing of water levels, the structure must be built to adjust to these…
Reinventing the Port and the Farm: Introduction to Rotterdam – Day 8
Our day started by taking the metro from our hotel to the heart of the Port of Rotterdam. Once there, we walked to the Floating Farm — a small farm that operates on a specially designed barge in one of the port’s berths. The farm opened in 2019 and remains the only floating farm in…
The Munster Mash
Today we traveled from Enschede to Munster, Germany, for the day. Upon our arrival, we learned a few quick facts about the city’s history from our tour guide, Enno. He informed us that Munster is a city that had been bombed numerous times during the Second World War. Therefore, much of the city has been…
Plus3 & Me: Day 7 in the Netherlands and Day 3 in Enschede
Day 7: As I woke up, the sun was shining through nice and bright, a perfect way to start the day. I met up with the rest of our group for breakfast, and shortly after, we boarded the public bus to head into downtown Enschede. Taking public transportation allows for the carbon emissions to be…
Floating Cow Innovations: Day 8
Today, in our first full day in Rotterdam, we had two very interesting site visits, Floating Farm and RDM. Both displayed the innovative and modern spirit that seems prevalent in Rotterdam. The Floating Farm was impressive as a prototype and I think offers a very promising solution for food insecurity and sustainability. The most important…
Day 9: We can now FARM on WATER (+ other patch notes)
Album of the Day: Forever ends today – kiowa Today was a day jam packed with interesting innovations. It all started around 11 am when we arrived at the floating farms here in Rotterdam. The company behind them, very aptly named Floating Farm, has managed to create a farm in which they can care…
Day 4: Running off of Water
Today we left Amsterdam and took a bus over to the University of Twente near Enchede. It is the only “American” style campus in the Netherlands, meaning that it is self enclosed, and not scattered throughout a city. We took a tour of the campus where we learned about their culture, as well as how…
Enschede: A City Underwater
05/09/2026 Today we had the opportunity to walk around the city of Enschede, by which the university of Twente is located. Before going off on our own to explore we met with a municipal employee who gave us a guided tour of some of the city and described how the city needs to deal with…
Day 1 in Rotterdam: floating farm and shipping port!
Today was our first full day in Rotterdam. We began with breakfast at the hotel and then took the bus to the Floating Farm. At the Floating Farm we began by getting an introduction from our tour guide. During this we learned how the farm operates and how it is the first farm that is…
Windmills, Modern and Medieval
05/08/2026 Today we got to tour the campus of the University of Twente with a sustainability lens, the wind farm Windpark Groen, and the Medieval town of Elburg. This morning we got to walk around campus and look at the features that have added to make the buildings more energy efficient and integrated into the…
Day 7 – Off to Germany
The morning began with us saying our goodbyes to Twente University. We packed up our stuff and took a bus to our next destination, Rotterdam. However, before arriving, our group spent a day in Münster, Germany. After we got off at Münster, our travel guide gave us a tour of the city’s history. We learned…
Flooding the Festival
We started our day by going into the city center in Enschede. There, we met with a civil engineer who works for the municipality, and he showed us different water management techniques throughout the city. Most of the runoff water is directed from the city to the Kristalbad through the use of semi-permeable asphalt in…
Day 2: The Future of Buildings
Our first site visit today was a floating neighborhood called Schoonschip. It was designed to support a community that was very sustainable, and also very modern. Some of the sustainability features include solar panels on each house, green spaces on the roofs, water recycling, and sustainable materials like wood and bamboo. There is only one…
Wind Energy and Historic Elburg: Day 6
We began the day early with a lecture on wind energy. He began with the history of the Netherlands and their reliance on windmills, then moved onto the technical side of wind energy. An interesting topic he discussed was wind energy security: essentially, because fossil fuels are very important and there’s a lot of politics…
Plus3 & Me: Extra! Extra! Read All About What Enschede and Neighboring Towns Have to Offer!
Day 6: Today we started our morning off with a lecture in the engineering building, Horst, where we learned about wind turbines. This lecture provided us with useful information that I will talk about in just a couple paragraphs! We then went on a campus sustainability tour at the University of Twente. This tour took…
Day 6: Enroute to Enschede
Today we bid a bittersweet goodbye to Amsterdam and left bright and early for the University of Twente in Enschede. During the ~2.5 hour drive, I was excited to see many of the tiny cars I had been introduced to in Amsterdam. I love seeing them because they just look so silly and cute. They’re…
Day 6 – Exploring Enschede
Of all the days we have had so far, today was the most relaxed. We started off the morning by taking the bus to the city of Enschede. Once there, we received a tour of Enschede along with a brief history of the city, which emerged through the textile industry. Along our tour, our guide…