SAON collaborates closely with its partners and other prominent Arctic and international organisations as well as with the Arctic Council Permanent Participants to find synergies and joint activities to avoid overlapping efforts. The collaboration includes, but is not limited to:
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
- Arctic Challenge for Sustainability Project (ArCS II)
- Arctic Portal
- Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna and The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CAFF/CBMP)
- EU-PolarNet
- EuroGOOS
- European Union (EU) (European Commission (EC))
- European Polar Board (EPB)
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and GEO Cold Regions Initiative (GEOCRI)
- International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA)
- International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC)
- Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
- Integrated Arctic Observation System (INTAROS)
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
- International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT)
- Pacific Arctic Group (PAG)
- Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC)
- PolarView
- Saami Council (SC)
- Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS)
- US Arctic Observing Network (US AON)
- University of the Arctic (UArctic)
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
