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Angkor Project Group

The aim of the Angkor Project Group, APG, is a close collaboration among students with different cultural and educational backgrounds, transferring knowledge based on direct contacts.

Dancing Śiva

of the Prasat Thom
in Koh Ker

In our 2011 and 2013 IWR Campaigns in Cambodia and France, students of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, IWR, Heidelberg University, scanned about 70 parts of the Dancing Śiva, which are located on site or distributed over various museums in Cambodia and France. The complex group of statues is now reconstructed virtually and thereby gives a realistic impression of the ancient culture. Read more...

MoU

At the beginning of 2005, we initiated a project of students from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, IWR, Heidelberg University, and students from the Royal University of Fine Arts and Architecture, RUFA, Phnom Penh. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of IWR, Heidelberg, and RUFA, Phnom Penh, was signed in March, 2005.

Grants and Promotions

We received several grants and promotions from non-profit non-government organizations like the UNESCO, the World Monuments Fund (WMF), the Global Heritage Fund (GHF). Some of them are listed in detail here.