INBO participates in several international collaborative programmes that often share a common data infrastructure (links point to external sites).
- The International Cooperative Programmes (ICPs) of the Working Group on Effects under the UNECE Air Convention:
- International Co-operative Programme (ICP) Forests, Level I en level II
- ICP Vegetation
- ICP Mapping en Modelling
- cooperation with ICP Integrated Monitoring
- The network of long term ecosystem research sites:
- Global (ILTER)
- European (LTER-Europe)
- Belgian (LTER-Belgium)
- The Network for the implementation of the goals of Forest Europe
- The European Forest Genetic Resource Programme (EUFORGEN)
- European Information System on forest genetic resources (EUFGIS)
- Europese research group ecology and evolution of forest trees:
- The EVOLTREE Network (EVOLTREE)
- The dataportal serving the FLUXNET community (FLUXNET)
- European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (eBMS)
- European Vegetation Archive (EVA) en The Global Vegetation Database (s-Plot)
- The Global Biodiversity Information Systems (GBIF)