The European Foundation Centre (EFC) is holding its 23rd annual general assembly and conference in Belfast this year, and the topic of the conference is “Peace for Social Justice – A Role for Foundations?”
As one of 236 EFC members from 40 countries around the world,the Koerber Foundation is organising a session about social justice and basic income: “Justice through unconditional basic income? A debate on European Social Policy”
Massive protests against growing social inequality and unemployment have erupted all across Europe lately. Young Europeans in particular are calling for radical political change and a new strategy for social justice. At the same time, the EU has set five ambitious objectives to be reached by 2020 – reducing the number of people in poverty by 20 million is at the top of this agenda. How can Europe reach this ambitious goal and further foster social justice?
This session aims to discuss whether the unconditional basic income can be a means of European social policy, a way to reduce social imbalance throughout Europe and a possibility to save expenditure within the European social welfare systems. More generally the session will focus on the effectiveness within the EU to develop and implement a common strategy and common standards in the field of social policy.
The session will allow for interaction between an outstanding social policy, social partnership and socio-economic expert and young citizens from several European countries, who are affiliated to FutureLab Europe, an initiative of the European Alliance for Democratic Citizenship, coordinated by the Körber Stiftung, and to the young European online magazine Europe&Me.
Organised by Körber-Stiftung
Moderator:
Almut Möller, Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies
Expert:
Guy Standing, University of Bath
Speakers:
Lukas Brück, Germany, FutureLab Europe
Christoph Johannes Delcker, Germany, FutureLab Europe
Johannes Himmelreich, Europe & Me
Eemeli Isoaho, Finland, FutureLab Europe
Estefania Almenta Lopez, Spain, FutureLab Europe
Zuzana Novakova, Slovakia, FutureLab Europe
Further information: https://www.efc.be/AgaConference/Pages/2012SessionDescriptions.aspx#social
