ABOUT

MISSION 0 HOUSE

OUR WORKING MODEL

Science and Engineering Aligned

Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from modern materials and products is a shared mission that requires collaboration across disciplines, organisations, and sectors. Our guiding principle—One Task, One Team, One Place—creates the trust, understanding, and support needed to work together effectively.

Mission 0 House is our way forward—a place where collaboration becomes capability, and capability becomes progress. Together, we turn ambition into action and do everything in our power to make the transition to truly climate‑neutral materials possible.

Our research portfolio is structured across two interconnected project types. Horizontal Projects are academically and scientifically driven, led by postdoctoral researchers, and focus on understanding the root causes of greenhouse gas emissions from specific manufacturing processes. Vertical Projects, led by engineers, are solution‑oriented and aim to develop industrial technologies that eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from targeted materials and products. Both project types are closely linked, ensuring that scientific insights directly inform practical engineering solutions.

OUR JOURNEY

History

October 2025

During the autumn of 2025, the Mission 0 House welcomed its first new full members. In October, TMG Automotive and Together Tech AB formally joined the initiative.

TMG Automotive, a leading manufacturer of automotive interior components, has been supplying major OEMs since 1971. The company began its journey with SAAB and the Swedish market and has since expanded significantly. Today, TMG Automotive stands as the second‑largest supplier of automotive interiors in the European market. Its long‑term, resilient business strategy has supported continuous growth, particularly within premium segments.

Together Tech AB also became a full member, joining Mission 0 House as part of its commitment to driving sustainable industrial development. Within the Mission 0 House community, Together Tech contributes broad expertise across mechanical design, textiles, materials, and multiple industrial sectors. Sustainability Manager Karina Bret represents Together Tech on‑site, playing an active role in facilitating collaboration and integrating the company’s competencies into the mission‑driven work to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from material and product production.

Spring 2025

The year began with highly constructive discussions between the Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen) and several industrial partners regarding the establishment of a long-term collaboration for Mission 0 House.

Through this dialogue, a significant commitment was formed: nearly 100 million SEK has been pledged to a five year initiative running until 2030. This funding enables five Swedish highereducation institutions—University of Borås, University West, Jönköping University, Karlstad University, and Mid Sweden University—to join Mission 0 House in Gothenburg, alongside Borgstena, Polestar, Sekab, and SSAB, with additional support from Vinnova and Västra Götalandsregionen.

As the Knowledge Foundation expressed:
“A unique aspect of Mission 0 House is the emphasis on physical presence and close collaboration between industry and academia. Researchers and engineers collaborate under one roof with the common goal of eliminating greenhouse gases from material production and products.”

Following a strong theoretical foundation and a successful pilot phase, Mission 0 House is now emerging as an established center dedicated to tackling climate-related challenges originating from material and product manufacturing.

Following the preparatory study, 2024 became the year when the mission-driven arena was tested at a larger scale. Partners gathered in a shared office environment and collaborated as one integrated team. This setup created a dynamic working model that accelerated progress and enabled faster innovation cycles. The pilot clearly demonstrated that a co-located, cross-sector approach can be a powerful driver in the transition toward climate-neutral materials.

The pilot brought together Boliden, Borgstena, Lindholmen Science Park, Polestar, SEKAB, SKF, SSAB, Stora Enso, and Volvo Cars, with support from Vinnova and Västra Götalandsregionen—representing a combined investment exceeding 20 million SEK. Additional contributions came from Luleå University of Technology, Uppsala University, Chalmers University of Technology, and Linnaeus University through Master’s thesis work and a Postdoctoral researcher. Overall, the mission-driven arena showed strong potential.

In 2023, Polestar and Lindholmen Science Park conducted a theoretical preparatory study supported by Vinnova, which resulted in a pilot starting 2024.

The preparatory project explored the creation of a mission-driven R&I arena focused on eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from material production for products such as cars. It demonstrated that meeting this challenge required new, cross-sector forms of collaboration to unlock innovation at the needed scale and speed. The project successfully mobilized leading expertise across boundaries and showed how such an arena can accelerate the transition to climate neutral materials and products.

In early 2022, Hans Pehrson, Head of the Polestar 0 Project, articulated a bold vision for a new kind of research hub—one created not to optimize the present, but to transform the future. A place where scientists and engineers work daily across disciplines with a single, uncompromising mission: to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions at their source.

Drawing on diverse expertise and perspectives, the hub would become a global specialist center dedicated to solving one of the defining challenges of our time. Backed by a pioneering partnership between government, industry, and private investors, it represents a truly collective commitment to build an emission-free business landscape—for the greater good of society and generations to come.