The university founded in year 2008 a new center for research projects and international cooperation. This center is independent from faculties and has the following tasks:

1-Developing a plan aiming to let BAU on the top universities in the region.
2-Increasing the number and level of funding for industrially sponsored research and advanced      development projects and partnerships with business.
3-Establishing and maintaining institutional links with other research active institutions regionally, nationally and internationally to faster collaboration and leverage funding.
4-Developing the facilities, technology and administrative infrastructure necessary to promote quality and competitive research and scholarship.
5-Organize information days for staff members as well for students to inform them about all possibilities of grants and funding providers
6-Establishing an appropriate level of investment of internal funds in research that result in increasing levels of external sponsored research.
7-Developing plans for the introduction of economic costing of research.
8-Encouraging departments to organize national and international conferences in collaboration with national, regional and international institutions.