Bridging past and present, research in the Institute also crosses the boundaries of scientific areas through an international consortium of institutions bringing together unique knowledge repositories, world-class laboratories and experts, and scholars and scientists from different fields.

Through a policy of synergy and collaboration, the Institute has entered into partnerships with researchers, to conduct research with a wide range of institutions associated in the IPMT consortium.

These are the Universities and Organizations with which the Institute has signed agreements of collaboration:

• Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR), Pisa, Italy;
• Ethnobotany Collaborative Group (ECoG), University of Illinois Chicago, U.S.A.;
• Sapienza University, Rome, Italy;
• The Huntington, San Marino, CA, U.S.A.;
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.A.;
• Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA, U.S.A.;
• Faculty of Humanities, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada;
• Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Messina, Messina, Italy;
• General State Archives, Athens, Greece;
• Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, CNRS, Paris, France;
• Institute of Historical Research, NHRF, Athens, Greece;
• Institute of Medieval Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.