Join the Software Engineering Workshop in Braunschweig!

Braunschweig is a historic student city in Northern Germany and neighbour to Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg — one of the largest automotive sites in Europe.

The Workshop

Over three workshop days, you will move from writing scripts to thinking like a software engineer. The programme is built around a single continuous project — FactoryFlow, a manufacturing line monitor — that grows more capable with every session, so every concept you learn is immediately applied to a real problem.

You will start with professional fundamentals: setting up a proper development environment, working with Git, and writing clean, maintainable code. From there, you will build a data pipeline on synthetic sensor data, expose it as a web API, and turn the results into an interactive dashboard — all in Python. On the final day, you will raise your code to industrial-grade quality by writing tests and work with containers.

By the end, you will have shipped a tested, containerised web service you built yourself.

Requirements 

•    Laptop required (please bring your own device) 

•    Administrator rights on your device 

•    At least 10 GB of free storage 

•    Basic Python knowledge is helpful, but not required 

•    Please do not use a company-issued device, as IT restrictions may prevent installing the required software 

•    A detailed setup guide will be sent after the application period, so you can arrive ready for Day 1 

If you know what a loop and a function are, you are already well prepared. Everything else will be taught from the ground up.

Braunschweig

Mon 14 – Fri 18 September 2026

Application period: Jun 17, 2026 – Jul 31, 2026

Cancellation deadline: Aug 3, 2026