Deanship of Scientific Research has won an initiative to achieve the National Transformation Program 2020 under the title: "Improving Human capacities and Resources in Scientific Research".

The Initiative focuses on developing skills of the faculty members and students of the graduate studies in the field of scientific research in such manner which will help increasing thoughtful scientific production, besides selecting prominent publishing channels that ensure high impact factor. The initiative is also very keen to register faculty members in the famous search engines required by the  World University Ranking QS.

The initiative includes establishing database for the researchers in Umm Al-Qura University, besides the volunteering research Project  launched by the Deanship in the middle of the first semester. The initiative management team held several meeting to prepare the detailed plan and define initiative's stages, objectives and performance indicators targeted annually to achieve the sough-after national transformation 2020.