Skip to content
FutureHubs.eu
Stockholm seen from Katarinahissen on Södermalm: metro tracks and a train run past Gamla stan station in the foreground, with traffic on the Centralbron bridge, Riddarholmen church spire and its orange palace, the City Hall tower across Riddarfjärden on the left and the two Norra tornen towers on the horizon under a partly cloudy sky

Sweden

Stockholm

Photo: OleNeitzel, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Stockholm has handed the new Slussen bus terminal inside Katarinaberget over to the region, opened its largest sports hall in a former brewery in Ulvsunda, is letting Kista residents decide how to spend SEK 5 million on the square by the metro, and is testing X-ray and AI sorting to cut mistakes in food-waste recycling.

Updated · Checked against official sources

  • Population

    1,000,374 (May 2026, Statistics Sweden), the first time the municipality has passed one million

    2026

  • EU programmes

    5

Latest

  1. Regeneration and housing ·

    Stockholm opens first parts of Årstafältet park after years of construction

    Stockholm is opening the first parts of the Årstafältet park in early November, including three large stormwater ponds, bridges, jetties and a bird tower, with an opening event at the ponds on 6 November from 15.00 to 18.00.

    Facts and source
    • Three of the large stormwater ponds, bridges, jetties, a bird tower, a play and barbecue area and parts of the new park are opening to visitors.
    • Parks and green spaces make up more than a third of the whole new district.
    • The opening is marked at the ponds on 6 November from 15.00 to 18.00.

    Source: Stockholm city hall, “Årstafältet är tillbaka: Nu öppnar de första delarna av en unik parksatsning”

    Read with context →

  2. Mobility ·

    Stockholm hands new Slussen bus terminal inside Katarinaberget to Region Stockholm

    Stockholm has handed the new Slussen bus terminal, built inside the Katarinaberget rock over eight years with 330,000 cubic metres of rock removed, to Region Stockholm, which will now prepare it for bus services; no start date has been set.

    Facts and source
    • After eight years and 330,000 cubic metres of excavated rock, the city has handed the Katarinaberget bus terminal to Region Stockholm.
    • The terminal has 17 departure stops, 6 arrival bays, a waiting hall, lifts, escalators and evacuation routes.
    • No start date for bus services has been set; Region Stockholm will announce it once conditions are clear.

    Source: Stockholm city hall, “Slussens nya bussterminal klar för nästa fas”

    Read with context →

  3. Culture ·

    Gothenburg and Lund join Stockholm's library streaming service Biblioteket Play

    Lund's public libraries and Gothenburg City Library are joining Biblioteket Play, the free streaming service Stockholm City Library launched in 2022, which needs no library card, login or registration and already includes the libraries of Malmö and Örebro.

    Facts and source
    • Lund's public libraries and Gothenburg City Library are joining Biblioteket Play, which is free and open to everyone.
    • The platform was launched in 2022 with the aim of becoming a shared digital platform for libraries across Sweden.
    • No library card, login or registration is needed to use the service.

    Source: Stockholm city hall, “Biblioteket PLAY växer: Göteborg och Lund ansluter till streamingtjänsten”

    Read with context →

City briefs are drafted with AI from official sources; every fact is matched automatically against the source text before publication, without an editor approving it first.

Projects we track

6 projects · 2 completed · 4 under way

    1. Planned
    2. Funded
    3. Under way
    4. Completed

    Slussen bus terminal inside Katarinaberget

    After eight years of work and 330,000 cubic metres of rock removed, the city handed the new bus terminal built inside Katarinaberget, with 17 departure stops, 6 arrival bays and a waiting hall, over to Region Stockholm in October 2026; the region will announce the start of services.

    Mobility

    Status checked 23 October 2026 · Source

    1. Planned
    2. Funded
    3. Under way
    4. Completed

    Citizen budget for the square at Kista metro

    The city has set aside SEK 5 million in a citizen budget for the area outside the southern entrance of Kista metro station: residents submit proposals for the square and then vote on them.

    Budget SEK 5 million Funded by Stockholms stad Civic participation

    Status checked 23 October 2026 · Source

    1. Planned
    2. Funded
    3. Under way
    4. Completed

    AI-driven food-waste recycling

    The city's waste company Stockholm Avfall uses X-ray technology and AI-based computer vision to spot wrongly sorted waste in the green food-waste bags, and tests pay-as-you-throw or gain-as-you-throw rewards for correct sorting; the project runs from January 2026 to January 2029.

    Budget SEK 21,851,994 in total, of which SEK 8,180,604 from the EU Funded by European Regional Development Fund (via Tillväxtverket) Climate and energy

    Status checked 23 October 2026 · Source

    1. Planned
    2. Funded
    3. Under way
    4. Completed

    EUREKA: putting the Climate City Contract into practice

    With Prato, Dublin, Mechelen, Plzeň, Rovaniemi and other partners, the environment department is carrying out, monitoring and improving its work on the Climate City Contract and the climate action plan; the project runs from May 2025 to April 2028.

    Budget SEK 2,280,000 in EU funding for Stockholm Funded by EU, Interreg Europe Climate and energy

    Status checked 23 October 2026 · Source

    1. Planned
    2. Funded
    3. Under way
    4. Completed

    Ulvsunda sports centre in the old Pripps brewery

    Opened on 2 September 2026, Stockholm's largest sports hall turns parts of the old Pripps brewery in the Ulvsunda industrial area into an arena with stands for 2,400 spectators (reusing the old stand seats from the Globe arena), three full-size halls and spaces for table tennis, fencing, martial arts, boules, dance and cricket.

    Regeneration and housing

    Status checked 23 October 2026 · Source

    1. Planned
    2. Funded
    3. Under way
    4. Completed

    Biblioteket Play, a shared streaming stage for Swedish libraries

    Stockholm City Library's free streaming service for literature and culture, launched in 2022, is becoming a shared national platform: after Malmö and Örebro, the public libraries of Gothenburg and Lund joined in September 2026.

    Culture

    Status checked 23 October 2026 · Source

EU programmes and networks

From the archive

Other cities in Sweden

City hall press releases Subscribe (RSS) All cities