Canada: Event on Guaranteed Livable Income and Sustainable Futures
How can a guaranteed livable income help us to live equitably, sustainably, and peacefully? This was the focus of a recent event held in Canada.
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Seoul, Korea: Conference “Innovation, social investment and basic income”
On the 8th and 9th of November 2018, a Conference intitled “Innovation, social investment and basic income” will be hosted in the Institute for Welfare State Research, located in Seoul, South Korea. This two-day Conference will focus on welfare strategies, social investment politics and policies, as well as basic income. The Conference is International and will feature speakers such as
» Read moreAmsterdam, The Netherlands: Donut-D-Day Conference
On September 15th 2018, Donut-D-Day brought together various Dutch organizations and citizens committed to integrated systemic reforms to fight climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and unstable financial systems. The organizers used Kate Raworth‘s model of Doughnut Economics to imagine possible approaches that would balance the need for minimum standards of living for all people (the social foundation), within the environmental limits
» Read moreFinland / International: BIEN Conference 2018 (part 1)
At BIEN Conference main auditorium (at the forefront: Phillipe van Parijs) On the 24th of August 2018, the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Conference at Tampere, Finland, started at full force (after an introductory day on the 23rd of August – Nordic Day). The Opening Session, taking place at a large plenary auditorium, featured Tarja Halonen, former President
» Read moreGermany: Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Socio-political Pillars of the EU and its Member Countries (Conference)
“There will always be hope”. Picture credit: Alex Gi. On the 11th and 12th of October 2018, the University of Freiburg, in Germany, holds an interdisciplinary Conference titled “Basic Income and the Euro-Dividend as Sociopolitical Pillars of the EU and its Member Countries”. It will be organized by the Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory and the aim
» Read moreTaipei to hold second annual UBI Asia Pacific conference
The second annual Basic Income Asia Pacific conference will be held in Taipei on March 17 and 18. This year’s theme is “Asia Pacific’s Economic Future.”
» Read moreLITHUANIA: ESPANet 2018 Congress in Vilnius features Stream on the Political Economy of Basic Income
ESPAnet is the leading comparative social policy conference in Europe. Jurgen De Wispelaere (Bath University) and Heikki Hiilamo (Helsinki University) are coordinating a stream on “The Political Economy of Basic Income: Opportunities, Constraints, Trajectories” for its upcoming conference on transformations of European welfare systems in Vilnius (Lithuania), on the 30th of August – 1st September 2018. The submission of papers
» Read moreIRELAND: Annual Social Policy Conference 2017
Dr. Sean Healy and Michelle Murphy of Social Justice Ireland. Promoted and organized by the Social Justice Ireland Team, the Annual Social Policy Conference will take place on Tuesday, the 21st of November 2017. The venue will be located at Croke Park, in Dublin, and will last from 9:30 am up to 5:00 pm on that day. Registration can
» Read moreFirst Asia Pacific focused basic income conference
The first basic income conference focused on the Asia Pacific region is being prepared for March 18 in Taipei, Taiwan.
» Read moreBIEN Celebrates Thirty Years: Basic income, a utopia for our times?
On Saturday October 1st 2016, the Basic Income Earth Network celebrated its 30th anniversary at the Catholic University of Louvain.
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