One of the challenges is the engagement of your students to prepare them for their professional career in which digitalization and virtualization are trends. In many fields predictive analytics proves its value. Whether you teach students in engineering that need to find bottlenecks in a production system, or students in crowd management that need to analyze the evacuations times in a complex infrastructure. Students need to get familiar with these virtualization technologies to become successful using these tools and implementing these projects. To use simulation in your research projects can be a challenge struggling with the open structure, flexibility and capabilities of the available tools. That could be the same to get your Research and Development programs funded.