I.R.Aannual Fund and Forum for Lebanese Academic Researchers. Read more This Fund for Innovative Youth Industrial Research Applied Projects, launched in 2016, help to support the costs of industrially oriented projects undertaken by Academics and sponsored by industrialists. An Annual Forum is organized since the creation of LIRA program in 1997 to display the achievements of the implemented industrial researches (including professional ones) that are subjected to rigorous scientific evaluation where excellence in applied research is rewarded. new approaches to partnership: support to innovation driven companies