[1] The goal of IBANGS is "promote and facilitate the growth of research in the field of neural behavioral genetics".

[2] The IBANGS mission statement is to promote the field of neurobehavioural genetics[2] by: Each year IBANGS recognizes top scientists in the field of neurobehavioral genetics with:[8][9] A Distinguished Service Award for exceptional contributions to the field is given on a more irregular basis and as of 2020[update] has been awarded only three times, to Benson Ginsburg (2001), Wim Crusio (2011), and John C. Crabbe (2015).

[8] IBANGS was founded in 1996 as the European Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society, with Hans-Peter Lipp as its founding president.

[1] The name and scope of EBANGS were changed to "International" at the first meeting of the society in Orléans, France in 1997.

[1][13] IBANGS is a founding member of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.