# ProoV ProoV is a virtual upskilling platform. Students and early-career people complete real-world, company-style project briefs, have their work evaluated against defined criteria, and earn verifiable certificates. Every certificate can be independently verified at projectstudy.in/verify/. ProoV projects are specifically designed for students targeting careers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH region), covering sectors including Automotive, Finance, Logistics, and Pharmaceuticals. ## Who it is for ProoV is built for students and early-career people who want to build demonstrable proof of their skills. It serves as an alternative and complement to traditional course platforms: instead of watching videos, you do graded, project-based work that produces evidence of what you can actually do. ## What makes ProoV different - **Project-based proof of skill**, not video courses: you complete a realistic brief rather than consuming lessons. - **Graded work**: each submission is evaluated against clear, defined criteria. - **Verified, shareable certificates**: passing a project issues a certificate that anyone can verify online and that you can share (for example on LinkedIn or in a job application). ## How it works 1. **Unlock a project** from the catalog. 2. **Do the work** — guided tasks and case studies based on a real company-style brief. 3. **Get evaluated** against the project's criteria and, on a pass, receive a verifiable certificate. ## Key Pages - [Explore Projects](https://projectstudy.in/explore): Browse the full catalog of available projects. - [Blog](https://projectstudy.in/blog): Guides and insights on building proof of your skills with real-data projects. - [Verify a Certificate](https://projectstudy.in/verify): Confirm any Proov certificate is genuine by its hash. - [Register](https://projectstudy.in/register): Create a Proov account. - [Student Registration](https://projectstudy.in/register/student): Sign up as a student. - [Company Registration](https://projectstudy.in/register/company): Sign up as a company. ## Guides Evergreen guides for students navigating study, work, and visas in Germany. - [How to study in Germany: the complete 2026 guide](https://projectstudy.in/blog/study-in-germany-international-students-guide): Want to study in Germany as an international student? Here's the 2026 roadmap: universities, tuition, the student visa, language rules and timelines. - [Cost of Living for Students in Germany: 2026 City Budgets](https://projectstudy.in/blog/cost-of-living-student-germany-2026): Which German cities are cheap and which drain your budget? A city-by-city 2026 comparison with a sample monthly student budget, hidden costs, and ways to save. - [Best Cities to Study in Germany: Top 10 for 2026](https://projectstudy.in/blog/best-cities-to-study-in-germany): The 10 best German cities for international students in 2026, weighed by universities, jobs, rent, and student life, plus how to match a city to your goal. - [The German Blocked Account (Sperrkonto) Explained for 2026](https://projectstudy.in/blog/blocked-account-germany-explained): The German blocked account (Sperrkonto) explained for 2026: how much you need, how it works, the best providers, and how monthly withdrawals work for students. - [How many hours can students work in Germany?](https://projectstudy.in/blog/how-many-hours-can-students-work-in-germany): The rules on student working hours in Germany: the 20-hour Werkstudent cap, the annual day limit for non-EU students, semester breaks, and what happens if you go over. - [Werkstudent jobs: how international students work in Germany](https://projectstudy.in/blog/werkstudent-jobs-germany-international-students): Werkstudent jobs in Germany let international students earn money and build real experience while studying. Here's how the role works, the hour caps, and how to land one. - [Every German Work Visa Explained (And Which One You Need)](https://projectstudy.in/blog/germany-work-visa-types-explained): A clear 2026 breakdown of every German work visa type, who each one is for, the salary lines, and how to choose the right route for your situation. - [How to write a German CV (Lebenslauf) in 2026](https://projectstudy.in/blog/german-cv-lebenslauf-guide): Write a German CV (Lebenslauf) that German recruiters expect: format, photo, personal details, structure, and the US-resume habits to drop to land interviews. - [What is virtual work experience? A 2026 guide for students](https://projectstudy.in/blog/what-is-virtual-work-experience): Virtual work experience lets you do real, company-style projects remotely and prove your skills. Here's how it works, who it's for, and how to choose one. - [Data Science Jobs in Germany 2026: Entry Routes That Work](https://projectstudy.in/blog/data-science-jobs-in-germany): Entry-level data science and AI jobs in Germany 2026: the roles and salaries, the skills employers screen for, visa routes, and the proof that gets interviews. --- ## Available Projects Catalog ### [AI-Assisted Code Modernization with IBM](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-legacy-fix) - **Company**: IBM - **Domain**: SWE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-legacy-fix Imagine it is your first week as a junior engineer at a German car-parts company, and an old program that decides when cars get serviced is quietly reporting wrong numbers. This is the time to show your skill. Get your own copy of the legacy repository, have IBM Bob read it, then fix and modernize the code with it, catching the mistakes it makes. Verify with the repo's own acceptance script and hand back your public GitHub link as proof. --- ### [Energy and Renewable: Machine Learning for the Power Grid](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-siemens-turbine-yield) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: AI ML - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-siemens-turbine-yield Step into a Junior Machine Learning Engineer role and build a model that predicts a gas turbine's energy yield from real sensor data. You will frame the problem, engineer leakage-free features, train and honestly validate a model, tune it, and write a model card a hiring manager would trust. A case study on public data, not affiliated with Siemens Energy. --- ### [Driving Supply Chain Sustainability via Data Governance](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-trace-the-cell) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: GENERAL - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-trace-the-cell From 18 February 2027, no battery can be sold in the EU without a digital passport — and most of the required data sits with suppliers nobody has asked yet. Build a real compliance package for one cell: classify every regulated field, compute the carbon figure, decide who is legally allowed to see what, then trace each missing field to the supplier who owns it and write the request that closes it. --- ### [Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning: Racing Challenge](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-race-the-line) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: AI ML - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-race-the-line Apex Rennsport hands you a car that already drives — badly. It crawls the centre line, because crawling the centre line is exactly what its reward function pays it to do. You will write your own reward in Python, train it in your browser, read the line it produces, catch it when it games you, and race it on a circuit you have never seen. You leave with a race engineer's dossier: your function, evidence you measured yourself, and your argument for why it generalised. --- ### [Predictive Maintenance: Industrial ML for Fault Detection](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-schaeffler) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: AI ML - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-schaeffler Become a German condition-monitoring engineer. A motor that sounds fine will seize in three weeks — hear the crack inside the bearing from a sensor on the outside. You build a real fault detector by hand in Python: engineer the vibration features, train a tiny classifier, locate the fault from its frequency signature, test it on bearings it never saw, and set an alarm threshold on cost. Physics-based synthetic data; not affiliated with or endorsed by Schaeffler. --- ### [Frontend Engineering with Prediction Game](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-predict-the-cup) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: SWE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-predict-the-cup Kickstart your career as a web engineer and ship predictor.html before kickoff: a single-file HTML+CSS+JS prediction game you write line by line in our WebGame Lab, then deploy to a live https URL. Real 2026 fixtures, your own 5/2/0 scoring engine, a bot whose brain you compute from real historical results, a localStorage leaderboard. Graded on scoring, real-data modelling, completeness, and deployment. Not affiliated with FIFA, SAP, the DFB, or GOAL. --- ### [Supply Chain Optimization with SAP Business AI](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-rescue-the-supply-chain) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: AI ML - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-rescue-the-supply-chain Step into SAP's side as a Business AI Associate the morning a German manufacturer's line goes dark, and build the one-page Rescue Plan that diagnoses the real break, scopes a Joule-style copilot with honest guardrails, sizes the payback in euros, and earns a yes from the board. An independent ProoV case study, not affiliated with / endorsed by SAP SE; the customer is a fictional composite and every SAP figure is SAP-reported with public sources shown in-app. --- ### [Machine Learning for Automotive Safety](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-teach-the-car-to-see) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: AI ML - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-teach-the-car-to-see In this German industry project, you build a five-section dossier: score a frozen detector on a synthetic detections table (proportions grounded in the public KITTI/nuScenes benchmarks) in Pyodide, find where pedestrian recall collapses, write the ISO 21448 SOTIF case, then sign the verdict against the real Uber Tempe 2018 crash. --- ### [Introduction to Tokenized Real-World Assets](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-tokenized-rwa) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: PRODUCT - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-tokenized-rwa A beginner-friendly intro to tokenized real-world assets — no finance or crypto background needed. Maya covers what tokenization is, the three common products (stablecoins, tokenized Treasuries, tokenized stocks), what can go wrong (depeg, custody, redemption), and you make a first plain-language call. An educational case study inspired by Ondo Finance — not affiliated with or endorsed by Ondo, BlackRock, Circle, or any regulator. Not investment advice. --- ### [Business Analytics Sprint](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-bosch) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: DATA SCIENCE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-bosch A 3-week business-analytics sprint. As a junior analyst you investigate why Bosch revenue rose (€82bn → €96bn) while operating profit nearly halved (€11bn → €5bn) — forming hypotheses, auditing data, running SQL, building an executive dashboard, isolating root causes via a Pareto profit bridge, forecasting a recovery, and delivering a boardroom verdict. Capped by a real-world case study on Robert Bosch GmbH using public annual-report data. --- ### [Amazon Robotics - Black-Friday Fleet Coordination](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-amazon-warehouse-fleet) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: SWE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-amazon-warehouse-fleet Step into the seat of a Robotics Operations Engineer during Black Friday: coordinate a 200+ drive-unit fleet on a warehouse grid using A* search, reservation-table cooperative planning, and surge-aware charging policies. A Proov-owned educational case study inspired by Amazon Robotics (formerly Kiva Systems) - not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Amazon.com Inc. --- ### [Fundamentals of Cybersecurity](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-continental) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: CYBERSECURITY - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-continental Step into a German SOC on the night shift. As a Tier-1 Security Operations analyst at Falkenstein Automotive, you follow a live intrusion from the first phishing click through log analysis, the kill chain, containment and the GDPR 72-hour breach clock — then meet the real case it is based on: Continental's 2022 LockBit breach, using public data only. You leave with a real incident report and a CompTIA Security+ / BSI readiness map. --- ### [Machine Learning for Automotive](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-volkswagen-audi) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: AI ML - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-volkswagen-audi Build ML models to predict resale values for VW Golf and Audi A4 using real UK market data. Compare Linear Regression with Random Forest and deliver business recommendations in this simulated case study. --- ### [Real-Time Data Engineering on SAP: Tame a Billion Connected-Car Events](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-sap) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: SWE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-sap An independent ProoV educational experience using BMW Group as a publicly documented SAP HANA customer (nominative reference). Scenarios and datasets are synthetic, for educational use only — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by BMW Group AG or SAP SE. You play a database engineer at Vektor Data GmbH, a fictional consultancy, optimising the SAP HANA cluster behind ConnectedDrive's dealer dashboard: design the schema, rewrite slow SQL, benchmark the gain, and brief the CTO. --- ### [Business & Sponsorships — The FC Barcelona Case](https://projectstudy.in/explore/data-driven-decision-making) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: DATA SCIENCE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/data-driven-decision-making An independent ProoV case study using FC Barcelona (not affiliated or sponsored; figures are illustrative or synthetic unless publicly sourced). A beginner Data-Driven Management track that builds data literacy for business decisions — reading tables, shares, growth, and KPIs — with no coding or statistics needed. As a junior commercial analyst you learn how a club earns revenue, segments its fanbase, prices sponsorship assets, runs a negotiation, and proves a campaign worked with KPIs. --- ### [Data Analytics and AI](https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-adidas-sales) - **Company**: ProoV - **Domain**: DATA SCIENCE - **Link**: https://projectstudy.in/explore/experience-adidas-sales Build a strong foundation in Data Analytics and AI using a case study of the global German brand Adidas. In this project, you will explore how raw market data transforms into actionable insights, identify macroeconomic patterns, and train predictive machine learning models to forecast retail revenue like a professional. --- ## More - [Full project catalog](https://projectstudy.in/llms-full.txt): Expanded version with the full project catalog and details.