The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the following Research Training Groups in Oldenburg:

• SFB/TR 51 CRC Roseobacter
  (Start 2010, Chair: Prof. Dr. Meinhard Simon)
• Self-Making: Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective
  (Start 2010, Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Alkemeyer)
• Models of Gravity
  (Start 2012, Chair: Prof. Dr. Claus Lämmerzahl, Prof. Dr. Jutta Kunz)
• SCARE - System Correctness under Adverse Conditions
  (Start 2012, Chair: Prof. Dr. Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog)
• Molecular basis of sensory biology
  (Start 2013, Chair: Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Koch)
• Chemical Bond Activation
  (Start 2017, Chair: Prof. Dr. Sven Doye)
• SFB 1330 „Hörakustik: Perzeptive Prinzipien, Algorithmen und Anwendungen (HAPPAA)“
  (Beginn 2018, Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Volker Hohmann)

The Ministry of Science and Education in Lower Saxony (MWK) is funding the following Research Training Groups in Oldenburg:

• The ecology of molecules (EcoMol)
  (Start 10/2016, Chair: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar)
• MINT-Lernen in informellen Räumen [de]
  (Start 10/2016, Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Komorek)
• Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen [de]
  (Start 10/2016, Chair: Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril)

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the University of Groningen are funding the Research Training Group:

• Translational Research: From Pathological Mechanisms to TherapyOldenburg-Groningen Joint Graduate Research Training Group, Chair: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Thedieck (University of Groningen) and Prof. Dr. John Neidhardt (University of Oldenburg)
  (Start 2018)

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg is funding the Research Training Group:

• Social Embeddedness of Self-Explaining Autonomous Cyber Physical Systems, Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Boll and Prof. Dr. Markus Tepe
  (Start 06/2019)

The Evangelische Studienwerk e.V. Villigst is funding the interdisciplinary Research Training Group

• Dimensionen der Sorge
  (Start 06/2014)

 Completed Research Training Groups:

• International Graduate School for Neurosensory Science and Systems (2000-2009)
• Promotionsprogramm Didaktische Rekonstruktion (ProDID) (2000-2008)
• GK TrustSoft - Vertrauenswürdige Software-Systeme (2004-2009)
• Promotionsprogramm Fachdidaktische Strukturierung (ProfaS) (2009-2013)
• Promotionsprogramm Erinnerung – Wahrnehmung – Bedeutung. Musikwissenschaft als Geisteswissenschaft (2009-2013)
• PhD program Neurosenses (2009-2013)
• PhD program Hearing (2009-2013)
• Lernprozesse im Übergangsraum (LÜP) [de] (2012-2016)
• Signals & Cognition (2012-2016)
• System integration of renewable energy (2012-2016)
• Helene Lange Kolleg: Identitätskonstruktionen junger Erwachsener in einer postsozialistischen Transformationsgesellschaft: der Fall Belarus [de] (2013-2016)
• Helene Lange Kolleg: Queer Studies und Intermedialität: Kunst - Musik – Medienkultur [de](2013-2016)
• PhD program OLCRYPT (2014-2017)
• SFB/TRR 31 The active auditory system (2005-2017)
• Cultures of Participation (2014-2018)
• Interdisciplinary approach to functional biodiversity research (IBR) (2014-2018)
• Nano Energy Research (2014-2018)
• Safe Automation of Maritime Systemse (SAMS) (2014-2018)