Sustaineur
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Design Business Models That Make Sustainability Pay

Ahands-on learning game that helps you design sustainable business models that actually work. See how profitability, social impact, and environmental action reinforce each other over time.

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When used in the cosmetics industry, Botanica's first product with its soothing, healing and moisturizing properties was also more effective than aloe vera. Botanica was thus able to command premium prices, especially in European and American markets increasingly focused on authentic, traceable, and ethically sourced botanical ingredients.

Premium pricing enabled Botanica to earn profit margins large enough to be shared with local communities compensating them for the commercial use of their traditional knowledge.

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A New Way to Learn

Sustainable Business Design,
Reimagined

Move beyond frameworks and theory. Understand how business model decisions create reinforcing loops that either strengthen or undermine sustainability over time.

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See the Whole Business, Not Just the Pieces

Most tools break business models into boxes. This platform helps you understand how decisions connect and influence each other over time — so you can design models that actually hold together.

Stop Choosing Between Profit and Impact

Learn when social and environmental actions strengthen financial performance — and when they unintentionally work against it. Discover the hidden connections that most business schools overlook.

Learn by Building and Testing

Design, test, and improve business models through hands-on challenges in a structured learning game. Real-world cases. Immediate feedback. No passive reading.

Who Is This For

Built for Everyone Shaping
Sustainable Business

Whether you're learning, teaching, building, advising, or leading — Sustaineur helps you see and design the connections that make sustainability actually work.

Students

Learning

Develop a deep, practical understanding of how sustainable business models really work — beyond frameworks and buzzwords.

  • Go beyond theory with hands-on model building
  • Understand feedback loops that drive real outcomes
  • Build a portfolio of tested business model designs
Our Leadership

The People Behind Sustaineur

A cross-disciplinary team of sustainability researchers, engineers, and educators building the tools that make sustainable business design real.

Dirk Boehe

Dirk Boehe

Researcher

Aziz Mimoudi

Aziz Mimoudi

Researcher

Achraf Ajrhourh

Achraf Ajrhourh

AI Engineer

Abdessamad Ait Elmouden

Abdessamad Ait Elmouden

Lead Software Engineer

Achraf El Ghazi

Achraf El Ghazi

Software Engineer

Ayman Errahimi

Ayman Errahimi

Doctoral Researcher

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