Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies
The Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) is a competence network of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg for interfacultative and interdisciplinary research of the unconditional basic income, its conditions and its impact on different parts of social and personal life. Read more
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Prof. Dr. Almaz Zelleke will be Visiting Professor at FRIBIS in October 2023
Following her keynote at this year’s FRIBIS annual conference, Almaz Zelleke, professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai, and member of the FRIBIS team UBI and Gender, remains at FRIBIS for two weeks as a visiting professor. During her stay, she will...
International research project “ecoMOD” will be developing policy options for a resilient society
Starting in autumn 2023, a new research project named ecoMOD will be launched under the leadership of Dr. Tanja Kirn, assistant professor at the University of Liechtenstein. The goal is to evaluate policy options for a resilient society. Central to this are the...
Postdoc Lisa Reuter awarded the Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences 2023
Lisa Reuter, who has been working as a Postdoc at FRIBIS since October 2022, has received the Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences (€3,500) for her dissertation in psychology. The prize is awarded annually in two categories by the University College...
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“The State Of The Art In Basic Income Policy” [Video Series] – Top 5 Authors Share Insights!
Welcome to our public lecture series on "The State Of The Art Of Basic Income Policy," held and recorded in April and May 2023. Five researchers present their previously published papers, providing an in-depth look at their work. Professor Jurgen De Wispelaere, who is...
Workshop in Niterói, Brazil: Basic Income Social Policies in Practice – Learnings from Maricá and Niterói in Dialogue with the Global North
Since the early 2000s, the emergence and continuous growth of cash transfer programs define the main stage in the discussion surrounding the future of social protection. While established first in Latin America, programs focussing on direct cash transfers have spread...
NEW: FRIBIS’ UBI Experiments team gets off the ground
Why the team was founded Interest in basic income has increased significantly in recent years, both in academia and in politics. This growing attention from the media has contributed to a greater willingness to fund UBI pilot projects. As a result, numerous basic...
