A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
BIEN Congresses
BIEN’s 2022 Congress will be held in Brisbane, Australia, from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2022. This will be a hybrid face to face and online event. The main face-to-face event will take place in Brisbane.
Call for papers: Abstracts (250—300 words) due by Friday 4 February 2022; please click here for more information.
Recent news, opinion, and research
FRIBIS Public Seminar: Ethics and Basic Income, February 2
2 February 2022, 4pm-6pm:4:00pm-5:00pm – Guy Standing: A Commons-Based Argument for Basic Income5:00pm-6:00pm – Alexander Gourevitch: The basic income illusionLivestream link: https://youtu.be/2Lk9lMQwTCc Guy Standing is an economist and...
This South Korean Presidential Election is Vital
There are rare moments when a combination of threatening circumstances leads to a wonderful transformation that only a short time before would have been unimaginable. This year may be such a moment. The Republic of Korea could set an example to the world that would...
Arguments for UBI were presented at the Constituent Assembly in Chile
On the 1st of December, the Comission of Fundamental Rights received the president and secretary of the Chilean Basic Income Network (Red Chilena de Ingreso Básico) Gabriela Cabaña and Cristóbal Ramos. The intervention included the justifications of basic income as a...
Recording of 11 January 2022 International Workshop on Korea’s Basic Income Manifestos
https://youtu.be/zbjwfS2i7Ss On 11 January 2022, the International Workshop on Basic Income Manifestos for Presidential Election 2022 in Korea was held and a recording is now available on YouTube The session lasted about 2 hours and 20 minutes, of which 1 hour and 40...
European Citizens‘ Initiative “Unconditional Basic Incomes (UBI) throughout the EU“
A European Citizens‘ Initiative (ECI) in favor of an EU UBI has been started on 25 September 2020. The collection period currently ends on 25 June 2022. The ECI proposes "... to establish the introduction of unconditional basic incomes throughout the EU which ensure...
FRIBIS-BIEN Webinar on UBI: One Idea, plenty of Experiences
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) Student Group at the University of Freiburg are organizing a series of conversations oriented to bring the basic income debate to the global student community and to promote...
UBIEXP 2022 Essay Prize – “Unconditional Basic Income in Portugal: How Can We Afford It?”
The UBIEXP research group, from the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, together with the Portuguese Basic Income association, invite submissions for the international essay prize competition on the following topic:"Unconditional Basic Income...
Webinar on Manifestos of Candidates for President of the Republic of Korea in the March 2022 Elections.
In collaboration with our Korean affiliate and the UBI Advocates Worldwide and the National Research Foundation of Korea, we are organizing an international workshop on the basic income manifestos of at least two parties in Korea. The main manifesto is that...
A Research Agenda for Basic Income
Malcolm Torry has been asked by Edward Elgar Publishing to write a book with the title A Research Agenda for Basic Income. To ensure that what he writes will be as useful and comprehensive as possible, he would like to receive as many answers as possible to the...