About the Agency:
The Research, Innovation and Business Agency seeks to achieve academic and research excellence in the fields of humanities, which are in line with the college's strategic plan projects and the university's strategic goals, and in alignment with future plans for higher education (Afaq) and the Kingdom's Vision 2030. The Agency also seeks to contribute with academic departments in developing and creating distinguished postgraduate programs and diplomas that keep pace with the university's research, qualitative and academic excellence, as well as working to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship by providing the optimal attractive environment, supporting it with reasons for success and stimuli for thinking, work and guidance, leading to translating this into practical outputs and competitive national cadres, and innovative projects that play an effective role in the knowledge economy and achieving sustainable development.
The Agency's tasks:
1- Achieving academic and research excellence, and caring for female postgraduate students.
2- Developing and creating distinguished postgraduate programs and diplomas that are desirable in the labor market.
3- Support innovation and encourage talents, and work to provide an attractive environment for them.
4- Encourage specialized institutions locally and internationally to form partnerships with the university to provide quality and sustainable programs and initiatives.
5- Document and develop community contributions provided by university members, whether inside or outside the campus.
6- Empower project owners on how to establish and implement their projects to achieve commercial benefits.
7- Invest human resources from specialized expertise and activate the college's fixed assets in coordination with the Facilities Management
*Affiliated departments and units
Research and Innovation Unit:
• The Research and Innovation Unit is an urgent necessity in light of the growing role of knowledge and creativity in work and the economy. This unit, which was established in 1435 AH, is one of the most important units concerned with research studies, projects, courses and workshops. It also seeks to discover innovation among members and students and support and develop it through cooperation with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at the university. The most important objectives of the unit are:
• Proposing general objectives and policies for research activity in the college's educational departments, following up on their implementation, and providing scientific advice to parties related to specializations in the college.
• Encouraging the formation of research groups and teams between different specializations while maintaining the college's research priorities, and supporting research projects in accordance with scientific research regulations and systems.
• Spreading the culture of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship among students and members, and attracting and sponsoring ideas and projects with creative and innovative ideas.
• Establishing multiple databases that include (the scientific output of college members - ongoing research - completed research that has been financially supported) to benefit from them on an ongoing basis.
Postgraduate Programs Management:
This unit is the basis on which postgraduate programs are based, as it seeks to create master's, doctoral and diploma programs according to the labor market study, which enables bachelor's degree graduates to join one of these programs to raise their job and academic performance. It also cares about current programs and seeks to develop them, in addition to following up on postgraduate students from registering them for the research plan to the discussion and awarding of the degree. It also cares about holding meetings with students in the college to discuss the needs of students and the most prominent difficulties they face and to educate them about the most important systems and regulations. Among the most prominent objectives of this unit are:
1- Seeking to develop postgraduate programs in the college.
2- Developing programs and diplomas according to the needs of the labor market.
3- Following up on female graduate students from registering the plan until granting the degree.
4- Raising awareness of female students about their rights and the most important regulations related to them.
*Partnerships and Community Responsibility Management
Partnerships are the main driver in the development process as they are responsible for continuous and quality cooperation with local and international entities and universities. Community responsibility is also a sustainable approach adopted in order to fulfill duties towards society. The most prominent objectives of this unit are:
1- Seeking to establish local or international strategic partnerships to advance the university's status and progress in the global ranking.
2- Opening the door to communication between the university and regional and international organizations and bodies, and supporting academic and research cooperation between Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and highly ranked international universities.
3- Disseminating the values of community responsibility and its applications within the university, to motivate its community to adopt positive behaviors towards the outside community.
4- Raising awareness of the importance of extended integration between the university and the surrounding environment.
