The ChessAIThon project (2025-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000354329) is co-funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE). Neither the European Union nor the National Agency SEPIE can be held responsible for them.
The project is addressed to:
VET teachers
VET teachers to provide them with innovative teaching solutions that integrate chess and AI, to enable them to modernize the curricula and effectively develop students' Soft skills
VET students
VET students to provide them with crucial AI and coding competencies through hands-on, challenge-based learning with chess, significantly enhancing their employability and preparing them for the demands of the digital labor market.
VET school directors
VET school directors making them the protagonists of their VET institutions modernisation, the fostering of networking among VET providers and offering a a new training pattern to make the VET offer more in line with the job market needs
Comprehensive methodology guiding VET teachers in using Chess and problem based learning approaches with VET students to develop a more aware and practical oriented comprehension of principles of coding and artificial intelligence and reinforce their transversal key competences.
Online platform featuring real-life chess problem based scenarios to engage VET students in proposing and solving challenges facing and training an artificial intelligence based opponent.
Exemplary implementation of a Hackathon, a transnational learning by doing experience through which VET Students, are challenged in both the aspect of solving and evaluating real chess scenarios and that of training an AI to solve chess problems.
Representatives of all the project partners institutions participated in the meeting Florence (IT) on 26 - 27 March 2026. During the meeting the contents of the Methodology addressed to VET trainers to guide themin making full use of Chess with VET students were peer reviewed. A full presentation of the AI based platform for playing Chess was also delivered and discussed.
The ChessAiThon Newtwork is growing fast. Project partners are involving associated partners. Check at https://chessaithon.pixel-online.org/associated-partners.php the institutions that already expressed their interest in the project and their intention to contribute to its success. If you are interested to join please get in contact with us: Check at https://chessaithon.pixel-online.org/contacts.php.
Project partners are creating connections with other portals, publishing articles and web articles in order to spread information about the ChessAiThon project. Evidences of this effort can be easily accessed from the Press & Media section https://chessaithon.pixel-online.org/press-reviews.php
