Basic Income Training 2025 (BIT 2025) is a three-day event dedicated to fostering critical discussions, collaborative learning, and practical design around the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in Indonesia. Held from April 25 to 27, 2025, this intensive training brings together keynote speakers, guest experts, and participants from diverse sectors to examine UBI from multiple perspectives, ranging from theoretical foundations to concrete local pilot initiatives.
This training is proudly organized through the collaboration of several key institutions: IndoBIG Network, BIEN Asia Pacific, Perbanas Institute, Yayasan Perbanas, the Indonesian Economic Scholars Association (ISEI), INFID, RPK, and Kitabisa. Their joint commitment reflects Indonesia’s growing momentum toward reimagining social protection and economic justice. The synergy among these organizations makes BIT 2025 not only a training event but also the starting point of a broader movement.
The sessions are structured to deepen participants’ understanding and engagement. The opening day features welcoming remarks and keynote presentations, followed by discussions on global case studies of the basic income movement. On the second day, speakers will explore the significance of UBI for Indonesia’s socio-economic context and guide participants in designing locally grounded UBI pilot projects. The third day shifts toward forward-looking strategies, focusing on building an actionable roadmap for UBI advocacy. More than a one-time gathering, BIT 2025 will be followed by a series of workshops and the initiation of experimental UBI pilot projects, ensuring that the ideas cultivated during the training evolve into real, actionable programs on the ground.
Join us for our 2-day workshop and conference with panel sessions introducing the principles and practice of a Universal Basic Income, the opportunities for Malaysia and the potential means of implementation.
Session Themes: · Basic Income Overview, · Global Overview of UBI, · Findings from the Pilots, · Screening of the film: ‘Unconditional · Social Protection in Malaysia
Facilitated Discussions on: · Designing UBI policies; · UBI for Malaysia; · Economics of funding a UBI for Malaysia; · Addressing Income Insecurity
Day 1 – Training Workshop CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC ECONOMICS – International Islamic University Malaysia 9:30am – 4.30pm, 18th April 2025, Friday
Day 2 – Conference AZAM HISHAM AUDITORIUM – UNIVERSITI MALAYA 9:30am – 4:00pm, 19th April 2025, Saturday
As the world confronts profound socio-political and ecological challenges, there is a growing need to rethink foundational concepts in political philosophy and public policy. The transition to more sustainable societies demands not only technological innovations but also a radical reconfiguration of our political, economic, and ethical frameworks. This call for papers invites contributions that explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of the ecological transition, focusing on the roles that Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) and other transformative policies may play in this shift.
To read more and submit a paper proposal, click here.
ATTENTION: FINAL DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED!
We announce that the deadline for paper submission for the 24th Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) has been extended to March 20th. This is the final deadline to submit your proposal.
If you haven’t submitted your work yet, you can find the details of the call here. Submissions for panels, papers, posters, and cultural productions are welcome in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. The 24th Congress of the BIEN will take place from August 27 to 29, 2025, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In addition to the main Congress event, taking place in Niterói, two pre-congress events will be held in the city of Maricá:
• Latin America Day – August 25 • Early Career Day – August 26: You can find the call for papers for this day here.
Event registration is available at a discounted rate for early-bird participants until April 30. See you in Brazil! Information: www.bien2025.com.br
The concept of sufficiency has gained traction in both public and scholarly debates in recent years as an organizing principle to direct the ecological transition. However, there are few evaluations of sufficiency policies to date, and even less is known about sufficiency elsewhere in the world. Sufficiency is a fast-evolving field for policy innovation in many emerging economies, which are tasked with addressing the significant environmental footprints of its growing consumer classes. To understand how current and future sufficiency policies can be better designed and implemented across contexts, it is crucial to learn from diverse global experiences. This roundtable will bring together around 30 researchers and practitioners at Sciences Po to have an open, in-depth, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue on policies for sufficiency in emerging economies.
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), at its general assembly in 2019, created the Working Group for Clarification of Basic Income Definition. Since then we have had online open forum, including at the online venue of the BIEN congress in 2021 Glasgow and in 2022 Brisbane, and had an hybrid open forum at the 2024 Bath Congress. We are going to finalize our discussions by our Congress in August this year in Brazil.
We would like to make an open call for the final round of collective discussion. We expect to have several sessions from March to May. Each online session run around 90 – 120 minutes, started with speaker’s presentation(s) with discussions following. Each session would host 1 or 2 speakers. If you are interested in speaking, please show your interest by email both to anniemillerBI@gmail.com and toruyamamori@gmail.com, by 20 February. We might be able to accommodate later submission, but we would appreciate earlier submission.
After we and the speakers agree on the date, we expect speakers will send us a draft paper for their presentation at least a few weeks before the session. In June and July, the working group would work for making a final report on the ‘Clarification of Basic Income definition’. Papers presented at open forum might be attached to the report as appendicies.
ATTENTION: FINAL DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED! 
We announce that the deadline for paper submission for the 24th Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) has been extended to March 20th. This is the final deadline to submit your proposal.
If you haven’t submitted your work yet, you can find the details of the call 
The 24th Congress of the BIEN will take place from August 27 to 29, 2025, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In addition to the main Congress event, taking place in Niterói, two pre-congress events will be held in the city of Maricá:
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