In 1995 the Institute, together with four other academic institutions joined in a consortium to establish the International Laboratory for the History of Science. The aim of the participating institutions - the Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv; the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin; the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Firenze, and the Institute for the History of Science at the University of Athens - is to hold an annual summer laboratory - academy in the country of one of the members. The objective is to bring together junior and senior scholars to confront a focused and novel research topic through hands-on contact with instruments, techniques and texts. The Laboratory is meant to provide a new approach to the history of science and to break new ground in dealing with topics of fundamental interest in the field.

Past meetings of the International Laboratory were devoted to the following topics:

2003 - Berlin	Paradigms of Knowledge and the Information Revolution
2002 - Aegina	Giotto and Medieval Perspective
2001 - Firenze	Scientific & Technological Textbooks in the European Periphery
2000 - Tel Aviv	Measurement and Representation in the 18th Century
1999 - Berlin	The Material Culture of Calculation
1998 - Boston	Hidden Entities and the Devices that Manipulate them in the 18th and 19th Centuries