ifu Hamburg GmbH works in cooperation with a number of research institutions and companies, making us part of an international network of competent partners.

Through the good relationsship with our partners, we are able to provide to our customers a whole range of services and expertise just like out of one hand. In larger projects we can rely on our partner's expertise, where required.

Some examples of services we can offer with the support of our partners: 

• LCA Studies
• Carbon Footprint studies
• Regional or local material flow analyses
• Material flow studies in the agriculture/food field
• Recycling studies
• Design for Environment (DfE) studies 

Our partners are:

		ifeu Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH Heidelberg, Deutschland ifeu is a well-known environment research institutes in Germany. It conducts independent scientific studies comissioned by public authorities and industry.  Together with ifeu we have been developing since 1993 the software Umberto
		ecoinvent Centre Zurich, Switzerland We are reseller of licenses for the ecoinvent database. The technical implementation of the ecoinvent database server was mastered by ifu.
		Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Faculty Environmental Sciences, Dept. Environmental Informatics Lüneburg, Germany For the further development of Umberto and the underlying methods and technologies we have a research cooperation with the Environmental Informatics department at the University of  Lüneburg. The university uses the software Umberto in their seminars. Furthermore, the Center for Sustainablity Management is a cooperation partner for projects.
		University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim, Environmental Economics Pforzheim, Germany The cooperation with the department of Environmental Economics at the University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim is focused on research in the field of material flow management and the implementation of related instruments in industrial companies. From their practice-oriented projects we get new impulses for further development of our software.
		University of Hamburg, Department of Applied and Socially Oriented Informatics (ASI) Hamburg, Germany A long-standing collaboration in research projects and the opening of new innovative fields of software development characterizes the relationship with the Department of Applied and Socially Oriented Informatics (ASI). The roots of ifu Hamburg GmbH are at the University of Hamburg.
		University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Industrial Environmental Informatics Unit Berlin, Germany We are working together with HTW in the development of the EMPINIA framework, that enables us to develop Microsoft .NET software applications more efficiently. ifu also cooperates with HTW in the development of a certified SAP interfaces for our software Umberto.