YIC attaches great importance to international cooperation and exchanges. So far, it has built partnerships with many academic institutions and organizations over world, including HZG (Germany), IOW (Germany), Kiel-CoreLab(Germany), CNRS (France), CNR-ISMAR (Italy), IMB-FEBRAS (Russia), PML(the United Kingdom), CSIRO (Australia), CUHK (Hongkong), and HKUST-AMCE (Hongkong), etc.

Furthermore, YIC frequently sends its faculties as visiting researchers to USA, Germany, Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Russia, etc.