Znanstveno usavršavanje:

• 1999 International course of Viticulture (July, 1999, Würzburg, Germany), granted by LWG (Bayerische Landesanstalt fűr Weinbau und Gartenbau) and Croatian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry;
• 2007 Visiting field trial vineyards through collaborative project at the CRSA (Centro di Ricerca e Sperimentazione in Agricoltura "Basile Caramia") - Clonal selection program for grapevines (June, 2007, Locorotondo, Italy);
• 2009 International course "Application of genetic and molecular markers in gene banks" (March, 2009, Alnarp, Sweden), granted by Swedish Biodiversity Centre and NordGen;
• 2012 Fulbright scholarship award, USDA ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository University of California (January - August 2012, Davis, CA, USA), granted by State of Department