Collaborative Research Centres are institutions established at universities and financed through the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a period of up to 12 years during which researchers pursue high-profile interdisciplinary research programmes.

There are currently two Collaborative Research Centers at the University of Oldenburg:

• Collaborative Research Centre 1372
  “Magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates: from biophysics to brain and behaviour”
  University of Oldenburg, Institute of Avian Research/Wilhelmshaven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology/Plön, Ruhr University Bochum, University of Cologne, Weizmann Institute of Science/Rehovot, Israel
  (Start 2019, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, University of Oldenburg)
• Collaborative Research Centre 1330
  „Hearing Acoustics: Perceptual Principles, Algorithms, and Applications (HAPPAA)“
  (Start 2018, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Volker Hohmann)

Participation of Oldenburg scientists in Collaborative Research Cerntres/Transregios:

• TRR 386: Solid-state photo-CIDNP NMR applying flavin systems 
  (Start 2023, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Ilia Solovyov)
• SFB 1463:  Integrated Design and Operation Methodology for Offshore Megastructures
  (Start 2021, Participating Applicants: Prof. Dr. Martin Kühn, Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke, Dr. Matthias Wächter)
• TRR 294: Structural Change of Property
  (Start 2021, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Tilo Wesche)
• TRR 234: Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials – Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies
  (Start 2018, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke)
• SFB 1278: Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategies
  (Start 2017, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke)

• Transregio 128
  "Initiating/Effector versus Regulatory Mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis - Progress towards Tackling the Disease"
  (2012-2024, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Karin Loser)
• Collaborative Research Centre 1009
  "Breaking Barriers – Immune Cells and Pathogens at Cell/Matrix Barriers"
  (2012-2024, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Karin Loser)
• Collaborative Research Centre 901 
  "On-the-Fly Computing – Individualized IT-services in dynamic markets"
  (2011-2023, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Heike Wehrheim)
• Transregio 51
  „Ecology, Physiology and Molecular Biology of the Roseobacter clade: Towards a Systems Biology Understanding of a Globally Important Clade of Marine Bacteria“
  University of Oldenburg, University of Braunschweig, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures and University of Göttingen with Göttingen Genomics Laboratory
  (2010-2022) Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Meinhard Simon, University of Oldenburg
• Transregio 31
  "The active auditory system"
  Universities of Oldenburg and Magdeburg
  (2005 to 2017, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Martin Klump, University of Oldenburg)
• Transregio 14
  "Automatic Verification And Analysis of Complex Systems AVACS"
  Universities of Oldenburg, Freiburg and Saarbrücken
  (2004 to 2015, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Werner Damm, University of Oldenburg)