Please refer to the digitalisation strategy for the full text of the field of action.

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg is committed to the principles of Open Science for open communication and transparency in science with and for society. It supports its researchers in making their research practices as open as possible: With measures such as the establishment and promotion of a university-wide research data management system that is compatible with all disciplines, the further expansion of open access publishing, the establishment of a medical data integration centre and a research information system, a digital infrastructure is being created and expanded that enables research along the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and promotes good scientific practice under digital conditions. In addition, centralised and decentralised support structures such as advisory services and training courses, digital work aids and applications such as electronic lab books, virtual labs, measurement technology instruments, AI-based data analysis tools and digital media will be established and made available.

Technological innovations such as these and increasingly digital communication and cooperation are changing society and science in a variety of ways. Responsibly shaping this change requires content and methodological analyses as well as systematic reflection and further development of digital systems, among other things to prevent discriminatory patterns from being reproduced and consolidated. Opportunities and risks must be critically reflected upon and the ongoing transformation must be actively and scientifically shaped. This requires academic engagement with digitalisation in all disciplines and interdisciplinary exchange between the subjects. The university supports this internal and interdisciplinary research on digitalisation in a variety of ways, for example by establishing cross-faculty centres.

Strategic goals for the coming years relate in particular to:
 

The digital transformation is also contributing to a diversification in the results of scientific activity. In addition to established forms of publication, new formats and a variety of other, sometimes subject-specific services are becoming important. These include, for example, data collections, software or digital or digitally documented exhibits. These research results should be made publicly accessible wherever possible. For publications, open access formats and repositories should be used that are recognised as being subject-specific. In the long term, solutions must be found that contain no (financial) barriers for readers or authors. In addition, new formats and subject-specific features should be taken into account in the evaluation of research achievements..

Digitalisation is an important element in the transfer of scientific knowledge to the economy and society. The strategic goals of transfer include shaping innovations for digitalisation, increasingly bringing science and society into dialogue via digital formats, increasing digital skills in science and society and promoting non-university career paths related to digitalisation. The university has the necessary infrastructure in place with the digital laboratory located at the Innovation Campus. Central funding, advisory and interaction services in the Research and Transfer Department and its transfer projects are used to promote knowledge- and technology-based spin-offs for digitalisation, enrich the regional culture of innovation with specific services, open up new target groups for scientific and science-related formats and systematically prepare young scientists for non-university career paths as part of their qualification.