(photo: credit to Mundiventos Club)

The call for papers for the next Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress has been released.

This 17^th BIEN Congress will be held in Lisboa, Portugal, at the Portuguese National Parliament, from the 25^th through the 27^th of September, 2017. It will take place as part of the Portuguese Basic Income Week, which lasts from the 25^th through the 30^th of September. The Basic Income Week, which has been scheduled in parallel to the Congress as a way to widen the event’s impact, will include concerts, film-screenings, performances, campaigns and other special features.

The Congress will have the general theme “Implementing a Basic Income”, and nine keynote speakers havebeen invited, including Evelyn L. Forget, Louise Haagh, Philippe van Parijs, Jurgen De Wispelaere and Yanis Varoufakis, Sara Bizarro, Y Combinator’s Elizabeth Rhodes, Give Directly’s Joe Houston, and Guy Standing.

All those interested in submitting papers or proposals for either the Congress or the Basic Income Week (or both) can do so by submitting a proposal (an abstract of up to 300 words) to the organizing committee at bien2017.callforpapers@gmail.com. Proposals must be submitted no later than March 31^st, 2017.

The final programs for the Congress and Basic Income Week will be released by April 20^th, 2017.

More information at:

BIEN website (also in Portuguese)