Members of the University of Oldenburg can apply for funding from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) to promote European and international cooperation in science and research. Applications must always be submitted through the International Office.

Erasmus+ is the EU programme for education, training, youth and sport. The International Office primarily promotes the mobility of individual students (including PhDs) and university staff:

Short-term teaching assignments at European partner universities (Erasmus+ STA)

Erasmus+ (STA) provides funding for teaching staff mobility at European partner universities. The purpose of these visits is to strengthen the European aspect of the host university, complement existing courses and impart their specialist knowledge to students who do not want to or cannot study abroad.

For more information on the basic possibilities for doctoral students to realize a stay abroad via Erasmus+, click here.

In addition, funding for European collaborative projects is also possible via the Department for Research and Technology Transfer:

• Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees (EMJMD)
• Strategic partnerships
• University partnerships for capacity building in partner countries
• Knowledge alliances (partnerships between universities and business)
• Support for political processes
• Jean Monnet activities in the field of EU studies (Chairs, Modules, Centres of Excellence)

Carl von Ossietzky Guest Lectureship Programme
Internationalisation of teaching, expansion of the range of courses offered in terms of subject, methodological and foreign language aspects, and intensification of cooperation with our partner universities – these are the goals that the University of Oldenburg pursues with the Carl von Ossietzky Guest Lectureship Programme (financed from study quality funds).

ReTraP
The Research and Travel Programme (ReTraP) of School V supports the international mobility of young researchers (including registered PhD students) as well as international collaborations of lecturers and students.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent academics from Germany and abroad. The Foundation offers a variety of fellowship programmes and awards for postdocs, experienced academics and top researchers. The Humboldt Foundation’s fellowship programmes enable exceptional researchers from Germany to conduct research with members of the Humboldt Network (of whom there are 30,000) around the world:

• Feodor Lynen Research Fellowships enable postdocs (6 to 24 months) and experienced researchers (6 to 18 months) from Germany, of all disciplines, to participate in long-term research stays all over the world. Postdocs must have completed their doctorate within the last four years. Experienced researchers can apply if they completed their doctorate no more than twelve years ago.
• The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science awards up to 20 research fellowships per year to doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers of all disciplines, enabling them to conduct research in Japan (for one to 12 months or 12 to 24 months).
• The MOST (Taiwan) Research Fellowship (Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; formerly NSC) offers up to two fellowships per year to young German researchers to conduct research at a research institution in Taiwan for a period of three to 12 months.