As part of the official visit of the French Prime Minister to Vietnam, the director of the EFEO, Christophe Marquet, signed on November 3, 2018 in Hanoi three scientific cooperation conventions with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Vietnam Institute of Archeology and the Institute of Social Sciences Information.
He was also received by the director of the National Museum of Vietnamese History, the former Musée Louis Finot founded by the EFEO in 1932, and by the director of the Hanoi Citadel Museum (Imperial City of Thang Long) whose museum project has been coordinated by the EFEO in 2010.