SNF DIALOGUES

August 2021. As part of SNF Nostos on Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, the SNF Dialogues, in collaboration with the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, decided to conduct an experiment: Host a live discussion with artificial intelligence systems, in an attempt to explore how close we are… to the future.

June 2021. During a period when restrictive measures and lockdowns are beginning to recede, the SNF Dialogues, held at the Antonis Tritsis Metropolitan Park Open Theater, embarked on a public discussion about one of the most sensitive and relevant issues of the quarantine period, that of the use of Public Space.

May 2021. After a long period of quarantine and restrictions due to the pandemic, in Greece and in most countries of the Western world, people are starting to meet outdoors again and spend the day outside.

April 2021. The findings from the wastewater of Attica on the spread or not of the Coronavirus are a reference point in TV reports and announcements of authorities and infectious disease specialists. At the same time, however, the measurements show something else: the explosion of addictive substance use in the community.

March 2021. The DIALOGUES for the first time, gave the floor to eleven teenagers, from 15 to 18 years old, from the big urban centers to the most remote villages of Greece. They themselves, without any direction or limitation, defined the themes of the DIALOGUES and participated in a lively discussion.

February 2021. The 40th DIALOGUES took place at a special moment: On the one hand, they were included as a key event on the first day of the iMEdD journalism forum, and on the other hand, they followed the avant premiere of the documentary by Yorgos Avgeropoulos Being Present, produced by iMEdD.

January 2021. The coronavirus vaccine has been approved and is already being used in some countries, giving hope that many aspects of our lives are soon to be restarted.... In a year when scientists came out globally ahead or alongside political leaders, we asked the question: How has this whole adventure morally and practically redefined the relationship between society and science?

December 2020: the last month of a year marked for the whole world by the onslaught of Coronavirus, with all that this implies for health, the economy and society. But another aspect of the pandemic, perhaps a little neglected, was its impact on people's mental health.

November 2020. The DIALOGUES are 3 years old. While we are in another period of polarisation and tension due to the pandemic, we have opened up the subject of the Dialogue itself, in order to examine and reassess its value, especially in times of crisis such as the one we have been experiencing.

October 2020. The theme of Labour has always been and will always be interesting. This time the DIALOGUES with the help of eminent economists, including Nobel Prize-winning economist Christoforos Pissarides, known for his radical proposals on labour, opened up this complex issue, especially in its international dimension.