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The history of Lindholmen Science Park is a history of how the ailing Lindholmen area became the most dynamic and knowledge-intensive area of Gothenburg. A story of successive crises and how the wrong side of the river became right.

Lindholmen Science Park AB was founded in 2000 by Chalmers University of Technology and the City of Gothenburg. Today, the City of Gothenburg, together with Swedish business, is our owner. Chalmers remains a strategic partner and important financier, as is the Västra Götaland Region, the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Transport Administration, as well as Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency and Formas. As a neutral enabler, we have over time developed into a national resource for increased Swedish innovation.

This is a project with a mission to help Ukrainian refugees to enter the labor market in Sweden as soon as possible. The strength in our joint network can help create possibilities and inclusion, at the same time as many organisations can benefit from new competence.

The collaborative project, Virtual Gothenburg Lab, is now under way. This means that the work on what should be included, tested and shown in Gothenburg's digital twin can start. A total of 25 parties are involved and they participated in the kick-off.

One of the world's most important congresses for electric transportation, the Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition, EVS38, will be held in Gothenburg on June 15-18, 2025. The event is aimed at a broad audience and experts who work to promote and enable electric mobility. Over 10,000 visitors are expected to attend the congress at the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, and Lindholmen Science Park will be part of the program.

Gothenburg has great potential in the form of knowledge and competence – but it is not leading to many viable companies with their own intellectual property (IP) that can create long-term employment in the region. That was one of the messages when Innovation Bazaar – a meeting place for developing cooperation between vehicle manufacturers and software providers – was arranged for the last time at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg on November 7.

Join us on a journey to the city’s infancy in the first and only visualization of Gothenburg in the 17th century. The film is part of Gothenburg’s 400th anniversary and is included in the exhibition “The Birth of Gothenburg" which opens at the Museum of Gothenburg on March 11. The film has been made possible thanks to cooperation between the Urban Planning Department, the Museum of Gothenburg, Göteborg & Co and Visual Arena at Lindholmen Science Park.

Gothenburg City Planning Authority is the first in the world to examine the interaction between autonomous vehicles and sustainable, long-term urban planning. The city is exploring the effects and benefits of technology, including, but not limited to, the future need for parking facilities, enhanced road safety, accessibility, and implications to the use of public space.

Buses that glide noiselessly without emissions, that pick up passengers indoors and which are powered by a renewable source of electricity – this will become a reality in 2015, through the launch of an ultramodern bus service in Gothenburg. The new technology enables completely new possibilities for future public-transport. Behind the initiative is the Volvo Group, in cooperation with the Swedish Energy Agency, Region Västra Götaland, the City of Gothenburg, Göteborg Energi, Västtrafik, Lindholmen Science Park and Johanneberg Science Park.

As of December, Västtrafik will introduce about 150 electric buses on 34 routes in Gothenburg, Mölndal and Partille. The scale-up makes western Sweden the largest region in the Nordics when it comes to electric buses and the large introduction of electric buses that the people of Gothenburg are now witnessing is in parts a result of the ElectriCity collaboration's tests on line 55 and EL16.

Västtrafik is taking new steps in the transition to fully electric public transport. On 2 October they launched the first of a total of 30 new electric buses in Gothenburg. The new buses will operate on line 60. In addition, another 160 buses will be coming to the city next year and the goal is that within ten years all public transport in Western Sweden will be electric.

How can a joint film experience be shared in VR? That is what Visual Arena wants is attempting to find out in the project The Future Cinema, which is operated in collaboration with Aftonstjärnan cinema. The purpose is to investigate how the very best parts of the cinema experience - getting together - can be combined with the very best parts of virtual reality - being surrounded by the film - and to investigate how the possibilities of digitalisation can be utilised and develop the cinema culture.

On May 24–25, 2025, the gates will open to the Gothenburg Classic Car Weekend, a unique festival where the history of the automotive industry meets the innovative technology of the future. At Lindholmen, Gothenburg’s mobility hub, the public and industry professionals will come together for an extraordinary experience.

Lindholmen has had the Älvrummet, a forum for urban planning and dialogue, for six years. Glenn Evans, who has been with Älvrummet since its inception 16 years ago, works in this environment. We met Glenn for a talk about the past, future and how it felt to receive Lindholmen Open Day's honorary award.

Gothenburg is one of Europe’s most innovative cities — made clear by the fact that the city has gone to the finals in the European Capital of Innovation (iCapital) Award competition. The competition highlights the important role cities play in developing the solutions of the future for societal problems, in broad collaboration with other players.