General directorate of Scientific research and Innovation Mission:

Enhancing faculty and student research, fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, and providing effective learning and information resources.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Proposing regulations, policies, and procedures governing scientific research at the university.
2. Ensuring the implementation of research policies at the university and achieving its set objectives.
3. Raising awareness about intellectual property and providing sufficient information about it.
4. Reviewing research project proposals submitted by faculty members and approved by the research support unit.
5. Monitoring the preparation, evaluation, and approving technical and financial reports.
6. Establishing a database for the scientific research outputs of faculty members at the university.
7. Encouraging scientific research that serves the community to enhance the university’s community engagement.
8. Studying annual scientific research plans submitted by colleges and preparing an annual plan for scientific research at the university level.
9. Supporting and encouraging faculty members and students to publish scientific research in reputable scientific journals.
10. Identifying priorities in scientific research areas in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.
11. Supporting student participation in various research activities.
12. Providing suggestions for supporting and organizing scientific conferences, symposiums, and workshops related to scientific research at the university.
13. Enhancing and expanding the active participation of faculty members and students in workshops and conferences related to scientific research.
14. Promoting a culture of innovation, entrepreneurship and raising awareness about them, and establishing a supportive and stimulating environment for innovation and entrepreneurship at the university.
15. Working to meet the needs of the public and private sectors for scientific research and studies and attracting government and private funding sources to support research activities at the university.
16. Encouraging economically feasible innovations and entrepreneurial projects.
17. Developing the necessary policies and procedures to enhance learning resources at the university and providing the necessary support to improve the educational process and enhance students’ academic achievement.
18. Developing educational applications and technologies at the university.
19. Ensuring the availability of paper-based, electronic, and digital information resources that support and meet the needs of the educational process, learning, and scientific research.