While Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of SFR Yugoslavia, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina exercised international cooperation through the Academy Council of Yugoslavia, based on protocols which the Council concluded with other national academies.

After the proclamation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent state (in 1992), the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina became the national academy. So far the Academy has renewed or established cooperation with a number of foreign academies and international institutions, including:                  

• Austrian Academy of Sciences

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts

• Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts

• Russian Academy of Sciences

• Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

• Turkish Academy of Sciences

• Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

• European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA)

• Euro Mediterranean Academic Network (GID-EMAN)

• Global Network of Science Academies (IAP)

• Inter -University Center (IUC) Dubrovnik

• Inter-Academy Council of Southeast Europe (IAC SEE)

• International Science Council (ISC)

• International Union of Academies (IUA)