On 3 and 4 August, 2016, the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) hosted an archaeology seminar, titled: Arqueología, Antropología E Historia Del Primer Encuentro Colonial En Las Américas, at the INTEC library in the Dominican Republic.

On Tuesday the 25th of November Professor Corinne Hofman of Leiden University and the Minister of culture Sr. Otmar Oduber signed an MOU agreeing scientific and cultural cooperation as part of the ‘NEXUS 1492 ‘ project.