FRIBIS Annual Conference 2023: Care & Gender – Potentials & Risks of UBI
The 3rd annual FRIBIS conference was held in Freiburg from October 9 to 11, 2023. It focused on two often overlooked aspects in the universal basic income (UBI) debate, namely, gender and care as central dimensions of social coexistence. The conference aimed to...
Presentation by Prof. John Davis: Technological Unemployment Creates a New Kind of Collective Property that Can Fund Basic Incomes
Since the industrial revolution, technological innovation has led to loss in Jobs on a grant scale. Until now, at least the same technologies have created different jobs that ultimately offset these losses. But will this trend keep true? Prof. Dr. John Davis thinks it...
Review of the FRIBIS Summer School 2023
In 2023, FRIBIS organised a three-part Summer School on the topic of "Empirical Methods of UBI Investigations". The aim of the series was to establish a platform for practice-oriented basic income research and to provide participants with the opportunity to exchange...
Looking back at the FRIBIS workshop ‘Universal basic income as an economic narrative?’ (September 20-22, 2023)
When it comes to ‘narratives’, at least in the German-speaking world, the term is considered an empty phrase by some while others don’t think twice when using the term to explain social phenomena. And while some talk about opposing ideas being “mere narratives”,...
Interview with Toru Yamamori (Doshisha University) from the Gender-Team on his stay in Freiburg
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Freiburg, Professor Toru Yamamori presented his paper as part of his guest stay at FRIBIS: Is a penny a month a basic income? A historiography of a threshold in basic income to the members of FRIBIS, as well as external interested...
Follow-up report on the Science Talk at Liefmann-Haus
Many of the most pressing problems of our time, whether climate change, inflation or demographic change, have an economic connection. Dr. Denisa Sologon (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Dr. Tanja Kirn, Ass.-Prof. (University of Liechtenstein) and...
Starting in Oct 2023: Politics of Basic Income Talk Series!
Starting in October 2023 and continuing monthly on every 3rd Thursday, join us for a global exploration of Universal Basic Income (UBI) politics, hosted by the Bath UBI Beacon and Freiburg Institute of Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS), in partnership with the Basic...
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 coordination of FRIBIS member Dr. Tanja Kirn. The goal is to evaluate policy options for a resilient society. Central to this are the effects of demographic change on old-age...
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...
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...
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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...