The Swedish center of excellence for renewable fuels is called f3, for Fossil-Free Fuels. Swedish research on renewable fuels has a unique breadth and is very competitive from an international point of view. By strengthening the collaboration between researchers, industry and government in the form of a joint centre of excellence, research results will more readily be put into practice.Ongoing research efforts, in areas such as gasification and ethanol production from cellulose, will be complemented by R & D projects funded by f3. Projects may for example consist of comparative studies of different types of fuels, processes, materials or facilities.“Through this national centre we can continue to be at the international forefront of environmentally and economically sustainable biofuels. The market for these is almost unlimited,” says Pål Börjesson at Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund Faculty of Engineering.Five Swedish universities, known to be active in the biofules area, participate in the center - Chalmers, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Lund University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Umeå University. Other participants are, in addition to Innventia, the two research institutes IVL and SP, as well as representatives from the industry. The activities are also funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and Region Västra Götaland. Chalmers Industriteknik, CIT, will host the Center.