Teacher training in Oldenburg has been successful for many years in the training of young academics, which is made possible in part by funding from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture. Since 2001, the Didactic Centre has been supporting and coordinating doctoral programmes that focus on various aspects of teacher training and are based across faculties. Since 2021, the DiZ Research Academy has taken on this task.

Five doctoral programmes have followed one another since 2001: "Didactic Reconstruction" (ProDid) with two funding periods, "Processes of Subject Didactic Structuring" (ProfaS), "Learning Processes in Transitional Spaces - Empirically Investigating and Modelling Practical Phases of Student Teachers" (LÜP) and "STEM Learning in Informal Spaces - Investigating Processes of Research-Based Learning at Extracurricular STEM Learning Locations and their Embedding in Regional Learning Contexts" (GINT).

The new Research Training Group "Teacher Education 2040: Dimensions of the Professionalisation of Teachers from an Interdisciplinary Perspective - Challenges, Models, Methods" has just started in 2022.

What is special about teacher training in Oldenburg is its interdisciplinary nature, i.e. the close cooperation between the various disciplines, i.e. subject-specific didactics and educational science, which interact across disciplinary boundaries.

The co-operation with other universities in Lower Saxony, German and Europe also expands and promotes the discourse.