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, University of Oldenburg

Participation of Oldenburg scientists in Collaborative Research Cerntres:

• Collaborative Research Centre/Transregion 359
  Perinatal Development of Immune Cell Topology
  Start 2023, Participating Applicant: PD Dr. Anne Hilgendorff
• Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 386
  Solid-state photo-CIDNP NMR applying flavin systems
  Start 2023, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Ilia Solovyov
• Collaborative Research Centre 1463
  Integrated Design and Operation Methodology for Offshore Megastructures
  Start 2021, Participating Applicants: Prof. Dr. Martin Kühn, Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke, Dr. Matthias Wächter
• Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 294
  Structural Change of Property
  Start 2021, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Tilo Wesche
• Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 234
  Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials – Synthesis and Mechanistic Studies
  Start 2018, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke
• Collaborative Research Centre 1278
  Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategies
  Start 2017, Participating Applicant: Prof. Dr. Timm Wilke

• Collaborative Research Centre/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
• Collaborative Research Centre/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
• Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 31
  The active auditory system
  Universities of Oldenburg and Magdeburg
  2005 to 2017, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Martin Klump, University of Oldenburg
• Collaborative Research Centre/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
• Collaborative Research Centre 517
  Neural basis of cognitive functions
  Universities Oldenburg and Bremen
  1996-2005, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Roth