• January 1990: Heinz-Zemanek Research Award for Ph.D. work on "Implementation of Multi Database Systems in Prolog".
• July-August 1990: Sabbatical at the Indiana Center for Databases at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, funded by a Research Grant (Kurt-Gödel-Stipendium) of the Austrian Government (Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung).
• October 2005: Richard Mordinyi (student of the SBC-Group) receives the INiTS Award for his diploma thesis on a Shared Virtual Space Distribution Manager - SVSDM: Design and Implementation.
• October 2006: Marcus Mor (student of the SBC-Group) receives the INiTS Award for his diploma thesis on a Shared Virtual Space Distribution Manager - SVSDM: Use Cases.