The following projects are currently being coordinated at the University of Oldenburg:

ERC Synergy Grant

• QuantumBirds – Radical pair-based magnetic sensing in migratory birds
  Start 2019, Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen
  together with the University of Oxford

ERC Consolidator Grant

• Dual-Twist - Exploring correlated physics in cavity quantum materials in a dual approach
  Start 2025, Leader: Prof. Dr. Christian Schneider

ERC Starting Grant

• LIGHTSTAR - From streetlight to starlight: How light pollution disrupts insect orientation and alters habitat connectivity 
  Start 2026, Leader: Dr. Jacqueline Degen

• Nanoscale 3D Printing of a Lithium Ion Battery: Rethinking the Fabrication Concept for a Revolution in Energy Storage (NANO-3D-LION)
  Start 2021, Leader: Dr. Dmitry Momotenko

   

Erasmus+

INTERREG

• TREASURE- Targeting the reduction of plastic outflow into the North Sea 
  Start 2023, Antonia Krebs
   
• NORSAIC- Cooperation Governance for Next-Level Maritime Spatial Planning in the North Sea
  Start 2023, Malena Ripken

EFRE

• Gründung findet Stadt
  Start 2025, Franziska Gloeden
• Pilzkohle
  Start 2026, Prof. Michael Wark, Dr. Michael Röhrdanz
• Industrie 4.0 meets Pflegeheim - I4mP
  Start 2026, Prof. Andreas Heim, PD Dr. Rebecca Diekmann

ESF

• Next Step - Zukunftskompetenzen für Studium und Karriere
  Beginn 2026, Dr. Joachim Stöter

   

DAAD projects

The following projects are currently being coordinated at the University of Oldenburg:

• East and South African Centre of Excellence in Educational Research Methodologies and Management (CERM-ESA)
  Start funding phase II: 2019 (funding phase I: 2014 - 2018)
  Prof. Dr Karsten Speck, Prof. Dr Bernd Siebenhüner
  together with Moi University, Eldoret and Nairobi, Kenya and The Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
   
• Centre of Excellence for ICT in East Africa (dskills@EA - CENIT@EA)
  Start 2017 (completed 2023), Prof. Dr Jorge Marx Gomez
  together with The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania

• SDG Partnership
  Sustainable Energy Education - Developing Exchange Between Continents (SEEDexchange)
  Start 2024, Dr Herena Torio
  together with University of Energy and Natural Resources, Universidad de Antioquia, and Change the World Colombia

• Competence Development for the DAAD In-Country / In-Region Scholarship Holders in Sub-Saharan Africa (Comp3Modules)
  Start 2024, Prof. Dr. Karsten Speck and Dr. Malve von Möllendorff, together with the Nelson Mandela University, Hochschule Kehl
  Comp3 Modules on the DIGI-FACE Platform (Digital Initiative of the Centres of African Excellence), Start 2019, Prof. Dr. Karsten Speck together with the Hochschule Kehl and Nelson Mandela University)
   
• ProfiPlus project
  Pedagogy College - Model for a networked further education and advisory programme
  Start: 2024, Prof. Dr Ayca Polat
   
• University-Business-Partnership
  Network for Labour-Market oriented Education in Waste and Water Management for the Sub- Saharan Region
  Start 2023, Prof. Dr Jorge Marx Gomez
  together with the University of Technology and Arts Byumba in Ruanada, the University of Ghana and the Centre for Digital Innovation (ZDIN) in Germany
   
• Ta'ziz scientific co-operations
  Nanooptics Labcourse Exchange Zakho/Oldenburg
  Start 2023, Dr Martin Essmann
  together with the University of Zakho in Iraq
   
• Lehramt. International
  Doing Diversity – Concepts, Approaches, and Methodologies in the Classroom
  Beginn: 2019, Jenka Schmidt
   
• Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies - UNILEAD
  DIES-Trainingskurse - DAAD
  Welcome to the UNILEAD Training Course at the University of Oldenburg!
  Beginn 2008, Prof. Dr. Heinke Röbken
   

International projects with federal ministry funding

The following projects are currently being coordinated at the University of Oldenburg:

• Küsten-, Meeres und Polarforschung für Nachhaltigkeit (MARE:N) 
  SedWay: Safeguarding the natural sedimentary processes in the Wadden Sea for biodiversity and people (sponsored by the BMFTR, BMUKN, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) 
  Start 2024; Prof. Dr. Bernd Siebenhüner, together with IBU from UOL, Wadden Sea National Park Authorities in Lower Saxony, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Hanze University of Applied Sciences und Deltares

• Internationale Klimaschutzinitiative (IKI)
  Promotion of Participatory Processes for the Implementation of NDC through Nature-Based Solutions in Urban, Rural and Coastal Landscapes of Tanzania, zusammen mit Climate Action Network Tansania (PRO-NDC-ACT)
  Start: 2023, Prof. Dr. Bernd Siebenhüner