The Wittbülten research centre on Spiekeroog offers seminar rooms, laboratories and flats for university members. The offer is aimed at all disciplines. Bookings are still possible for 2026.

The digitalisation of administration at the university has taken an important step forward: the first e-file has been launched with the personnel file. Further files are to follow.

Digitalisation is changing many activities in administration. A Lower Saxony-wide Centre of Excellence coordinated in Oldenburg is to support the universities in making employees fit for the new tasks.

Two-factor authentication will soon be introduced at the university - a necessary step to protect computer systems from unwanted intruders.

She has an open ear for doctoral students and brings people together at the STED microscope: a visit to Dr Beate Grünberg in the Research Training Group "Molecular Basis of Sensory Biology".

She spends a lot of time in the laboratory, but has also been to the Southern Ocean: a visit with Birgit Kürzel, Technical Assistant at the ICBM.

His motto: interlibrary loans at Oldenburg University Library have to be fast. A visit with Horst Rummel, Head of Interlibrary Loan since 1994.

A change of perspective for Tobias Börger: normally in the university's accounting department, he spent two months helping out with the registration of refugees.

Welding, turning, soldering: Carolin Harms is an apprentice precision mechanic. The 21-year-old feels at home in the workshop - where she can do practical work.

Sometimes Kirsten Sturm feels like a detective. In other respects too

work in the archive is anything but dry.