2022 - … Ecologies of indigenous filmmaking in the Democratic Republic of Congo. HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF.
2021 Mapping Participatory Audio-visual Creation in Flanders, Belgium. Demos vzw
2020 - 2023 Research on Creative Industries in DR Congo, with a focus on Indigeneity. Le Fonds d'analyse des sociétés politiques (FASOPO) and l’Agence Française du Développent (AFD). Part of "La fabrique des communautés imaginées: liens sociaux, filières économiques et enjeux politiques des industries culturelles en Afrique"
2021 - 2022 Eco Film Congo. Environmental Films from the global South. UA Global Minds
2021 - 2022 Dealing with the Past. Japanese Cinema and Colonialism. CANON Foundation, Waseda University, Tokyo
2019 - 2020 African Cinemas against the Anthropocene. “Africa Multiple” Cluster of Excellence - Bayreuth Academy
2018 - 2020 Genealogy of Amnesia. Rethinking the Past for a new Future of Conviviality, Austrian Science Fund FWF (as scientific partner)
2018 Iconography of Lumumba in the Arts. KONE-Foundations (Finland)
2017 - 2019 Mobilità-stabilizzazione. Rappresentazioni congolesi e dinamiche sociali, in Congo e nello spazio globale, PRIN: Progetti Di Ricerca Di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale – Bando 2015 (as scientific partner)
2017 Liminality in Congolese Art. Research Stay at UNILU (Univ. of Lubumbashi, Congo). FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders)
2013 - 2017 Postcolonial Transitions and Museology in Film. VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
2013 - 2017 Belgian Cinema from a Postcolonial Perspective. FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders)
2009 - 2021 African Cinema. An Interdisciplinary Study through the work of Jean-Pierre Bekolo. Dehousse-grant, BOF-grant (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds), Fulbright Honorary Fellowship and travel grant, Full grant by the Belgian American Education Foundation (BAEF), NYU
2007 Researching the audio-visual archive at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. VAF (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
2006 The Game of the Gaze. Researching African Cinemas. VLIR/UOS
2003 - 2004 Europa Mensura. A Philosophical Research into Eurocentrism. VLIR/UOS Individual cooperation development projects between K.U.Leuven and Uganda Martyrs University
2002 - 2003 An Audio-Visual Research into Toys and Games in the DR Congo. JINT-ExtraTime (Belgian Ministry of Culture)
