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SimaPro for education

SimaPro supports education and research by enabling students and researchers to model and analyze environmental impacts using life cycle assessment. Trusted by universities worldwide and backed by over 35 years of development, it delivers trusted, science-based results.

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Teaching life cycle assessment

Inspire the next generation of sustainability professionals

You need to prepare your students for a world where life cycle assessment is becoming an integral part of sustainability thinking and product design. SimaPro is widely used in practice, making it a strong foundation for learning.

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Environmental research and innovation

Robust scientific research for sustainable change

As a researcher, you know that transparency and accuracy are essential when selecting LCA software. SimaPro provides transparent data structures and advanced features to support reliable, unbiased results.

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PhD research

Reliable software to support your PhD research

With advanced features, comprehensive databases, and a dedicated PhD plan, SimaPro is widely used by PhD students worldwide.

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Other ways SimaPro can help you

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In the past, companies have been providers of information to us and users of the results produced by students. SimaPro has been used to create a wide range of life cycle analyzes and assessments. Now we want to go further and develop the operating model so that business partners play a more active role. We want to learn together how to bring sustainable development know-how even more strongly into business development.

Lasse Okkonen

Senior teacher at Karelia University of Applied Sciences