- The refugee crisis, at the center of the first episode which premieres on Tuesday 17/12
- Livestreaming of the first episode on COSMOTE TV's official YouTube channel
Debate competitions on topics such as artificial intelligence, euthanasia, cremation, social media with "protagonists" students from 8 Greek and foreign universities are being presented for the first time on Greek television in the new show “
Debates’’ produced by COSMOTE TV. The show premieres on 17/12 on COSMOTE HISTORY HD and will run every Tuesday and Thursday at 21.00.
In the 15 episodes of the series, the participating students are divided into groups and, with the help and guidance of their coaches, undertake to design, study, present and defend their groups’ viewpoints on key issues of current affairs. Among the debating issues of the show are whether social media leads to socialization or isolation, whether artificial intelligence-based technologies will allow people to work less or drive them to unemployment, etc.
In the first episode of "Debates", students argue about whether a state can allow the entrance to all refugees fleeing into its territory by providing accommodation housing, food, education and work. The
episode will be simultaneously available on COSMOTE TV’s official
YouTube channel.
Once broadcast on the channel, all episodes will be available on demand through the COSMOTE TV PLUS service.
The show, which was shot at the National Library of Greece, is presented by Horn Award-winning actor Makis Papadimitriou.
The show "Debates" belongs to the new program with original shows and documentary of COSMOTE HISTORY HD, which is the only Greek documentary channel for Greece. Since 2016, the channel has featured more than 80 original documentaries or documentary series, produced or co-produced by COSMOTE TV and over 1,000 documentaries with the signature of acclaimed Greek and foreign creators.
Universities that competed:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Economical University of Athens
Deree - The American College of Greece
Democritus University of Thrace
National Technical University of Athens
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Law
University of Patras
Foreign Universities (Sciences Po Paris / Durham University / Queen Mary University of London)
Contributors:
Production: COSMOTE TV
Production coordination: Natasha Veroni, Maria Kamina, Moira Vardaki
Judges: Stelios Virvidakis, Vasso Kinti, Petros Papalianos
Art Direction-Idea: Lampis Tagmatarchis
Producer: Bournazos Prokopis
Director: Dimitris Tzetzas
Assistant Director: Ifileneia Zahariadou
Montage: Dimitris Klagos, Giannis Stergioulis, Costas Kourakos
Music Editing: Elena Dimitakis
Graphics: Giannis Papoulias
Photography Director: Spyros Pagonis
Executive Producer: LAMDA TAY
Coaches: Vassilis Tsipopoulos, Themis Markidis
Competition coordination: Kallina Basli