First Transnational Meeting

Pixel organized and coordinated the kickoff meeting of the European project entitled ChessAiThon – Chess Artificial Intelligence Hackathon which took place online on 16 October 2025. The project has been written and coordinated by the project applicant Ies Dr Simarro (Spain) in cooperation with Pixel. The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Cooperation partnerships in Vocational Education and Training (VET). The ChessAiThon project has the aim to support VET teachers in implementing the most innovative teaching solutions based on the use of universal language of Chess for developing VET student preparation to face the job market challenges and expectations develop a more aware and practical oriented comprehension of principles of coding and artificial intelligence and reinforce soft skills through problem based learning approaches. During the meeting the European project partners introduced themselves as well as their project’s related experiences and expertise, the main activities to be carried out were presented and discussed, as well as the templates to be used. More information about the AVTIA European project is available at: https://chessaithon.pixel-online.org/index.php.