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The Center Culturel de Rencontre d'Ambronay, in collaboration with the ensemble Correspondance, as well as the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Sorbonne Unviersité and the Louvre Museum, have organize a new MOOC, inttitled "Musical Travel arround the France of the 17th century". According to the organizers, it is a free course organized in seven sessions that will begin from February 2021. The course will offer  some tutorials, as well as interactive exercises, musical pieces and concert recordings mong others.

The PEM, a research group located in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, led by Manuel Pedro Ferreira and cohesived arround  the project "Musical exchanges, 1100-1650: The circulation of early music in Europe and overseas in Iberian and Iberian-related sources" , has compiled over many years a large number of musical sources in both the Portuguese and Iberian archives that are accessible on its webpage. It is a database with just under 20,000 pieces of music, drawn from 250 different sources.

Tomás Luis de Victoria's music is basically polyphonic and religious. Precisely for this second feature, to study Victoria's masterpieces  we must take into accont the use the monodic music during the divine services in Victoria's life. To know this repertory we would like to highlith the efforts of the Cantus Manuscript Database. It is a webpage organized by group of researchers (around seventy), mainly based in Anglo-Saxon universities, although not only.

The international project  'Music And Late Medieval European Court Cultures' (MALMECC) is an interdisciplinary research group funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and leader by some researches of the University of Oxford. Nevertheless the team is composed of musicologists from the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Slovakia and Poland.