Impact report 2025
Message from the CEO
We are living in an era defined by rapid technological shifts, climate challenges, and significant geopolitical uncertainty. Addressing these complex transitions requires more than just new solutions – it demands trust, understanding, and an enhanced capacity for cross-border collaboration. As a neutral actor, Lindholmen Science Park’s most vital mission is to lead these collaborations and generate the innovative power necessary to create a meaningful impact on society and Sweden’s future competitiveness.
Throughout 2025, we have seen our ecosystem – rooted in West Sweden’s strong innovation region – continue to scale up both nationally and internationally. By putting our partners and projects at the center, we accelerate research and development that makes a real difference and leaves a positive footprint.
Everything we do is built on synergy; it is together with our funders and partners that we transform disruptive technology and green challenges into tangible opportunities. We are continuously developing our ability to strengthen Sweden’s innovative power by remaining relevant and increasing our presence in the contexts where we are in demand and where we ourselves identify new possibilities.
We have an incredibly broad network of partners, where we build mutual trust – our most vital foundation. By co-creating new knowledge and ensuring it, in turn, drives competitiveness and greater societal benefit – that is how we boost Sweden.
Innovative power
397 projects that drive change
In 2025, we have accelerated the transition through 397 active projects that address complex societal challenges.
1 070 partners in
collaboration
Our strength is built on a unique ecosystem where 1 070 partners from business, academia and the public sector create solutions together.
Cross-border innovation in 35 countries
We strengthen Sweden's role in the world and bring in global expertise through collaboration with partners in 35 different countries.
4,3 billion for shared innovation power
In 2025, we conducted research and innovation projects that have a turnover of 4.3 billion SEK over their total lifespan.
Reach
19 070 visitors to our meeting places
During the year, we have welcomed 19 070 participants to our collaborative environments – places where new networks are built and tomorrow's collaborations are born.
545 970 visits to our websites
The interest in project results and new knowledge is great. During the year, we had 545 970 visits to the website from actors who want to drive change.
119 380 LinkedIn followers
The network grew to 119 380 followers through engaging content with project news, filmed reports, as well as open seminars and events around knowledge sharing.
1 150 articles in external media
During 2025, Lindholmen Science Park's operations, our programs or projects were mentioned in about 1 150 articles or features in external media.
Our positive footprint
Together with our partners, we work across a broad spectrum – from stimulating democratic dialogue and making urban environments in Europe more accessible, to solving complex challenges within resilient infrastructure, transitioning to electrified transport, and developing the ways we utilize AI – always for the greater good of society. Here, you can explore some of the highlights from 2025 – a selection of our projects and the results they have delivered within AI, media, and mobility.
Transition with automation and electrification
Through 16 initiatives for autonomous or automated vehicles and over 120 heavy electric trucks, which corresponds to a full 11% of Sweden's electric truck fleet, we create results that lower emissions and strengthen Swedish industry. From groundbreaking megawatt charging to the 42 live rescue operations with drones that contribute to saving lives, we show how collaboration drives the transition. Watch the videos about this year's results in automation and electrification below.
Svea: Scaling Sweden’s largest collaborative AI project within the public sector
The Swedish public sector faces a demographic challenge where a shrinking workforce must meet the needs of an aging population, while administrative tasks remain burdensome and time-consuming. To safeguard public welfare, adopting large language models can support routine tasks, freeing up time for more complex and value-creating work.
During 2025, the project for the Shared digital assistant for the public sector, also known as Svea, continued to scale across municipalities, regions, and government agencies. More than 50 organizations participated and co-funded the Svea project, and another 65+ new partners are joining in 2026. Svea is more than a web-based chat interface; the project supports skill development, analyzes the application of legal frameworks, and investigates secure data sharing, all running on infrastructure in Sweden. The project is coordinated by AI Sweden and is Sweden’s largest collaborative AI initiative within the public sector.
The project provides us with invaluable knowledge, networking opportunities, and above all, a significant increase in our AI maturity, both at an organizational and individual level.
Linda Burman
Innovation leader at Huddinge municipality
When research is translated into concrete benefit
Through our projects, a large number of actors create solutions that make a difference – from north to south, in ports, cities, regions and globally. By translating research into concrete benefit, we strengthen both essential societal functions and Sweden's competitiveness, while becoming more sustainable. Below you see how we in practice pave the way for sustainable shipping, develop tools for more equitable ambulance care and attract international establishments to Sweden.
How the Blue Supply Chains project has made a difference for the Port of Umeå
National quality register to provide more equal ambulance care
California-based traffic tech company establishes presence in Sweden
Immersive installations that drive action
Visual Arena is an innovation environment where visualization and immersive technologies are used to help organizations understand, test, and put new technology into practice. Through facilitated innovation projects, shareable insights are created that lead to decisions, new ways of working, and long-term investments.
A clear example of impact within the framework of Visual Arena is The Swedish Laundry Room, a public test conducted in 2025 where over 100 participants contributed user insights regarding presence, participation, and multisensory storytelling in immersive environments. The initiative strengthened Visual Arena's role as an innovation actor and formed the basis for the trust to lead both the national initiative Immersive Sweden and the EU project Immersive ECHO - both of which started in 2026. Consequently, Sweden can be positioned as an active player in the emerging immersive era.
MareNostrum 5. Foto: Barcelona Supercomputing Center
OpenEuroLLM: Building Europe’s foundation for trustworthy language models at scale
As stricter requirements around transparency, legal compliance, and digital sovereignty increasingly limit the use of commercial models in regulated environments, the demand for sovereign European large language models continue to grow. Against this backdrop, the EU has outlined a roadmap to secure Europe’s technical and economic independence. OpenEuroLLM is a major European collaboration addressing these challenges by developing open and compliant language models aligned with European values – a critical foundation for scaling AI responsibly.
OpenEuroLLM brings together 20 leading research institutions, AI companies, and supercomputing centers to advance European AI capabilities. During 2025, the project became the first AI initiative to receive coordinated strategic access and compute to multiple EuroHPC systems*, securing the infrastructure required to train next-generation European language models at scale. This is a major achievement and secures Sweden’s access to world-class compute.
Drones contribute to early situational awareness in accidents
In February 2025, the testing of autonomous drones equipped with defibrillators and high-resolution video cameras for early situational awareness began, within the framework of the PreViS project and the PICTA Prehospital Innovationsarena program.
After about ten exercises, the drone has flown in live operation in the city of Mölndal to get an early situational picture of major traffic accidents, building fires, drowning incidents and to deliver defibrillators. In connection with 42 alarms during 2025, it assisted the emergency dispatch center with images, which quickly got an idea of how many emergency resources they needed to send.
The drone project is a close collaboration between the Västra Götaland Region, the Healthcare Dispatch Center, Everdrone and the Greater Gothenburg Rescue Service.
Strengthening societal resilience
Since 2017, Medier & demokrati has been a national collaboration platform for applied research and innovation focusing on the information and media landscape and democracy.
As societal preparedness against disinformation, undue influence, as well as hate and threats toward key democratic groups becomes increasingly important, Medier & demokrati established the national initiative Forum för demokratisk kommunikation in 2024, in collaboration with the Psychological Defence Agency.
The forum strengthens the ability of journalists, researchers, and decision-makers to handle disinformation and undue influence by arranging conferences, networks, and knowledge sharing.
An example of the forum’s impact is an experimental research project on local journalism in crisis situations, where new forms of collaboration between civil society and journalism were tested to strengthen the supply of information in areas with low editorial presence. The project resulted in concrete lessons learned, increased preparedness, and unexpected spin-off effects.
LeakPro: Enabling collaboration around sensitive data through secure AI
Secure AI adoption requires resolving critical challenges in the intersection of legal and technology. A top priority for many organizations handling sensitive data is mitigating the risk of training data leakage from AI models.
In 2025, we concluded the LeakPro project together with our partners. A flagship initiative within our broader work on secure AI, the project combined advanced technical testing with legal and organizational perspectives to deliver a reusable open-source framework for evaluating privacy leakage in machine learning. The framework has been validated across several data modalities and within real-world settings in healthcare, pharma, and public sector contexts and serves as a tool for lawyers and technical experts to have a joint understanding of risks.
To make well-informed decisions that balance benefits against risks, we need a clear way to measure risk. From a legal point of view, there must be some form of consensus on managing and assessing risks for new AI solutions. Tools for evaluating the latest AI technologies are lacking, which is why a project like LeakPro is important to us.
Magnus Kjellberg
Head of the Center of Excellence for AI at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Environmental benefit and economic efficiency in e-commerce
E-commerce is a key factor for the mobility of the future. Within the ASTER program (now Next Gen Retail), which ended in 2025, we have demonstrated through collaboration that environmental benefit and economic efficiency go hand in hand. The project E-com Ready: Optimized packaging focused on developing sustainable e-commerce packaging. Pilot tests with Apotea and Blomsterlandet showed significant results.
"The project provided us with valuable methodology and data, as well as enabling the industry collaboration required to create sustainable solutions."
Erika Svensson, Sustainability Manager at Apotea
Effects that live on
For more than a decade, Film & TV Lindholmen has been a strong driving force for innovation, collaboration, and development within film, television, and moving images. Through development funding, meeting places, and long-term work in close dialogue with the industry, the program has created concrete and lasting effects.
The innovation support has given over 200 projects the opportunity to test new ideas, technologies, and working methods in early stages. For actors such as VP Nordic, Storyplai, and Studio Jox, the support has been crucial in enabling them to work methodically, build technical foundations, and explore new forms of storytelling within fields like virtual production, AI, and VR—initiatives that would otherwise have been difficult to realize. As Film & TV Lindholmen now concludes in its current form, the effects live on: the courage to test, the willingness to share knowledge, and the insight that innovation requires time, trust, and the right conditions.
Three approved actors on the significance of innovation support
Film & TV Lindholmen summarizes a decade of innovation in moving images
Do you want to know more about the results and impact of our operations? Read the impact reports from AI, media and mobility.
Highlights from AI Sweden 2025
Behind all the numbers is a capability that has been built up together with our partners. To show this, we highlight a selection of examples that show how joint efforts, shared resources and applied AI create concrete value in various sectors.
An ever-evolving destination
Linked to the mission of contributing to local development, Lindholmen Science Park AB took a strategic leap in 2025 by launching a new narrative for the area: Lindholmen Innovation District. Together with the City of Gothenburg and the business community, the ambition is to continue developing the destination into Sweden’s most attractive place to work, study, research, live, and experience – around the clock.
Following the kickoff and launch of the partnership in June, all founding partners – Business Region Göteborg, Göteborg & Co, Uni3 by Geely, Älvstranden Utveckling and Lindholmen Science Park – are collaborating alongside networks for property owners and the tourism and hospitality industry. Lindholmen Science Park plays a driving role in the district’s growing partnership, communication, and collaborations, and project manages major area-related events such as Lindholmen Open Day.
2025 was an eventful year, characterized by strengthened partnerships, new dialogues, new establishments, and the introduction of a new tramway. 2026 promises even more exciting collaborations and events.
National & International Exchanges
In 2025, Lindholmen Science Park hosted several delegations and high-level visits aimed at mutual exchange and relationship building. Internationally, there is significant interest in triple-helix collaborations and our commitment to cross-system innovation. Notable visits include ministerial delegations from Slovakia and Baden-Württemberg, Swedish EU Minister Jessica Rosencrantz (pictured), delegations from the European Parliament and ITS Netherlands, as well as the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) and Vinnova.
AI Sweden is a prime example of Sweden’s ability to co-invest in collective development, combining trust, collaboration, and technical leadership.
Minister for EU Affairs, Jessica Rosencrantz
Hosting & value creation
Specialized expertise in areas such as finance and law makes our organization both robust and agile. These assets, and the way we utilize them, constitute a vital part of our hosting. They create value internally, but also for the management of complex project and program operations.
Strategic EU expertise
The organization has been future-proofed through the recruitment of specialists in EU regulations and reporting standards. This enhancement of our expertise ensures reliable guidance through complex regulatory frameworks for the entire organization. It also results in reduced legal and financial risk exposure for all parties involved.
Sustainable work life and social commitment
By uniting a sustainable work environment with inclusive recruitment, we create the conditions for individual growth and a stronger labor market. Our commitment beyond our own organization includes active contributions to the development of collective agreements and labor law issues within Innovationsföretagen (The Federation of Swedish Innovation Companies).
At the forefront of innovation law
Process development is streamlining contract management and reducing the company's risk exposure. At the same time, the value proposition of our units is strengthened through legal expertise in AI regulation, GDPR, state aid regulations, and intellectual property (IP) law. The legal team is frequently engaged as external speakers and is an active player in the development of the field of innovation law.
In-house production: Showcasing tomorrow’s solutions
With creative expertise, all types of productions – both physical and digital – are documented and packaged. We provide tailored coaching for project partners and colleagues, whether on stage or in front of the camera. Through extensive knowledge and precision, we ensure cost-effective quality in every delivery.
