Following the higher education reform with Bachelor's and Master's degrees, doctoral training is now to be restructured - and Lower Saxony has launched a funding programme for doctoral colleges
, which was hotly contested: of the eight successful proposals from a total of
32 initiatives, hearing research at the University of Oldenburg is significantly involved in two: Thus, the doctoral programme "Integrative Neurosensory Sciences (Neurosenses)" will be jointly established by the University of Göttingen and Oldenburg
(board: Professors Treue (Göttingen) and Klump (Oldenburg)).

The doctoral programme "Function and Pathophysiology of the Auditory System ("Hearing")" applied for by the Hannover Medical School, the University of Oldenburg and other universities in Hannover is also being funded with a total of 15 doctoral scholarships.
The focus here is on interdisciplinary networking between physicists, biologists, physicians, psychologists and engineers, so that the existing co-operation between Hanover and Oldenburg is given a further component that promotes scientific development in the long term.

"We are very pleased about the opportunity now being funded to send doctoral candidates from Oldenburg to Hannover for important practical elements and vice versa. Everyone can benefit from the complementary orientation of both locations with common goals," emphasises Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier. Together with MHH professors Thomas Lenarz (spokesperson, ENT medicine) and Reinhard Dengler (neurology), he forms the board of the doctoral programme.