[1] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at School of Informatics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain in 2010. Funds by: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and Santander Bank. Theme: “Declarative approach to text categorization from unlabelled documents”.
[2] PhD at School of Informatics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, January 2006 – December 2008, Funds by: Secretaria de Educación Pública, México. Theme: Semantic Representation of Information by Fuzzy Relations and Information Retrieval based on Soft Computing Techniques. Graded unanimously: Excellent Cum Laude
[3] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at Centro de Estadística y Software Matemático (CESMa), Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1995-1996. Funds by CESMa. Theme: Multiagent System Development
[4] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at Artificial Intelligence Department, School of Informatics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 1995. Funds by: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Theme: Multiagent Systems.
[5] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at Artificial Intelligence Department, School of Informatics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 1994. Funds by: Humboldt University. Theme: Multiagent Systems.
[6] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at Artificial Intelligence Department, School of Informatics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 1993. Funds by: Humboldt University. Theme: Object Oriented Programming using Prolog.
[7] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at Artificial Intelligence Department, School of Informatics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 1992. Funds by: Humboldt University. Theme: Object Oriented Extension of Prolog.
[8] Research Grant for a 3 months stay at Chemical Physics Institute, School of Chemistry, Lomonosov University, Moscow, Russia, 1990. Funds by: Lomonosov University. Theme: Expert Systems using Prolog.