The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is our partner for contract research in all fields of the engineering sciences. The relationship between LIRE and Fraunhofer is being explored. More details will follow.

The Global Exchange for Social Investment channels funds from donors and social investors to support ventures amongst the world's neediest communities helping to raise living standards and sustain the environment.

The details of cooperation between GEXSI and LIRE are being explored. More details will follow.

Dongkhamxang Agriculture Technical School (DATS) is a public Technical Education Institute (TEI) under the responsibility and supervision of the Department of Vocational, Technical and Higher Education, Ministry of Education (MOE), Lao PDR. Its main duty is to train young people in the agricultural system in order to serve the national socio-economic development plan of the future. DATS is also researching the new knowledge on agriculture, forestry and environmental reservation, then distributing it to the community.

The Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association was founded in 1977 in Bremen, Germany, as a non-profit organization. With a wealth of experience behind it, BORDA has been focusing, since 2001, on development co-operations aimed at providing sustainable and environmentally sound basic needs services (BNS) to disadvantaged segments of society. LIRE and BORDA finalized a partnership agreement at the end of May 2008, at BORDA Southeast Asia headquarters in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. LIRE is now part of BORDA’s BNS network, which includes organizations in many countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Vietnam, China, the Philippines and Cambodia.

For the 800 million people who go hungry each day and the one billion who lack access to clean water, poverty is an absence of opportunity. Engineers Without Borders UK responds to this need, working with local organisations to help people in developing communities make improvements to their lives in a sustainable manner. Technology, when appropriately incorporated into each community's social, cultural, economic and political context, can drive extraordinary and long-lasting change. EWB-UK currently supports LIRE with an internship programme through which volunteer engineers help LIRE to develop and implement a number of renewable energy systems and train LIRE staff in the installation and maintenance of these key technologies.

Ourworld Rural Development Laos, was founded in early 2008. The company provides technology-based solutions to municipalities, industrial enterprises, and consumers with practical ways to solve their water-related and process problems in an environmentally responsible way.

RE-Impact is focusing on the impacts on the water resources, biodiversity and society of plantations for biofuels in South Africa, India, China and Uganda. The project aims to provide Impact Assessment Frameworks and influence relevant policies.
RE-Impact has a bottom-up approach to help strengthen the national scientific-based discussion in the case study countries and respective initiatives to develop impact assessment frameworks for bioenergy feedstock production.