Students can borrow bikes from the AStA bike workshop.
Through the ‘Rädchen für alle(s)’ scheme, anyone can book a cargo bike. At the Haarentor site, for example, a cargo bike is conveniently parked outside the maas shop.

The "Bicycle-friendly employer" certificate is an EU-wide seal awarded in Germany by the ADFC. It recognises companies and institutions that sustainably promote bicycle mobility in order to encourage more employees to cycle. On the way to certification, "bicycle-friendly employers" are advised by the ADFC and receive feedback on the current situation as well as advice on possible improvements. The certification is therefore also an incentive to improve the cycling infrastructure and service. The certification gives additional urgency to measures such as increasing the number of bicycle parking spaces with roofing, expanding repair services for employees, company bicycle leasing and offering showers and drying rooms.

• Sustainability: Measures to promote cycling are a central component of modern corporate environmental management, as they help to reduce CO₂ emissions, noise and land consumption.

• Health and well-being: Cycling not only keeps you physically fit, it is also good for your mental health - as studies have shown. For example, employees who regularly cycle to work have on average a third fewer sick days.

• Cost efficiency: Compared to car parking spaces, bicycle parking facilities require less space and are cheaper to provide and maintain.

• Fun and flexibility: Cycling is not only fun, it also allows employees to get to work quickly and flexibly. In urban environments, bicycles are often the faster and more flexible alternative, especially in rush hour traffic. This independence contributes to a better work-life balance and greater satisfaction in everyday working life.

As part of the collective bargaining negotiations between the employers' collective bargaining association of the German federal states, the service trade union Verdi and the civil servants' association in December 2023, an agreement was also reached on company bike leasing. Under this link you can find the adopted agreement (page 7).
This means that the Federal States, as employers, will be able to offer their employees company bikes on a deferred compensation basis in future. The question of when employees of the University of Oldenburg will be able to take advantage of company bike leasing now depends on the implementation of the state of Lower Saxony.

To enable civil servants in Lower Saxony to take advantage of bike leasing, the state government amended the Salaries Act in November 2023, thus creating the necessary basis.

Bicycle leasing is usually organised by a service provider who takes care of the company bicycle leasing. A Europe-wide tender must be carried out to determine the service provider. Accordingly, as of 1 January 2024, there will be no state-wide bicycle leasing in the state of Lower Saxony, neither for employees covered by collective agreements nor for civil servants. The state of Lower Saxony expects that state employees will be able to make use of the service in the course of 2026.