2011

Asian Cultural Council fellow, cultural exchange program in USA and based in New York, USA.

2007

Heinrich Böll Foundation, Travel Grant to Hungary and Romania

ANA-Art Network Asia, Travel Grant to Phnom Phen, Cambodia

2006

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand for a video documentary about old people with a rapid changing of Chiang Mai City “Time-Lapse City”.

2005-2006

The Rockefeller Foundation (Southeast Asia)/ Probe Media Foundation, Inc./ Inter Press Service Asia-Pacific/ The Japan Foundation for a video documentary about Thai and Vietnamese noodle „Taste of Noodles“. This project is under a workshop „Imaging Our Mekong 2005“

2002-present

Returning Experts Program : Book Grant, World University Service, Wiesbaden, Germany

2002

Returning Experts Program (Programm Rückkehrende Fachkräfte), the Center for International Migration and Development (CIM) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

2000-2001

Free State Sachsen Funds (Fördermittel des Freistaates Sachsen), Germany

1999-2001

Catholic Academic Exchange Service-Scholarships (KAAD-Katholicher Akademischer Auslaender Dienst-Stipendium), Germany

1999-2000

Herder Institut for German language lesson (GrundStufe), Leipzig,  Germany