The FRIBIS Annual Conference on Basic Income & Development will take place in Freiburg, Germany from 10 to 12 October 2022 (the program is now available
online). FRIBIS cordially invites all interested persons to participate. Please register using the registration form on our website.

Ute Fischer, who holds the chair for political and social sciences at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2010, is visiting Freiburg and FRIBIS
from early June to mid-August 2022. Prof. Fischer is a member of the care team at FRIBIS and conducts research on gender, care, work, poverty, civic engagement, meaning of life, democracy development and qualitative research methods. In 2003 she co-founded the initiative “Freiheit statt Vollbeschäftigung” (Freedom instead of Full Employment) and has since contributed to the basic income discourse through lectures and publications.

FRIBIS Annual Conference 2022

Otto Lehto’s journey at FRIBIS: A visiting scholar talks about his time in Freiburg – “Ethics of UBI”: a series of seminars by Karl Widerquist available on our YouTube channel – “Basic Income Experiments” symposium by Roberto Merrill and Catarina Neves

dm-drogerie markt founder and patron of FRIBIS, Götz Werner, has passed away

Karl Widerquist will be a Visiting Professor at the Götz Werner Chair in the first half of 2022 – Do mini-jobs have to be cut on the way to a basic income? – Expedition Grundeinkommen wins the German Commitment Award 2021 – Ana Helena Palermo Kuss is a finalist for the German Thesis Award of the Körber Foundation (2021)

Symposium of FRIBIS Visiting Scholars Catarina Neves and Roberto Merrill on Basic Income Experiments – FRIBIS hosts Otto Lehto as visiting scholar  – The FRIBIS Annual Meeting 2021 on YouTube – First meeting of the FRIBIS Student Group – “Joseph Beuys and the UBI” on YouTube

Online event on Net Basic Income: Basic Income in times of Covid-19 and post-pandemic perspectives – The advantages of a UBI and financing it through VAT – Karl Widerquist on UBI: Interview with Enno Schmidt – Why a UBI is more in line with the ideal of democracy than the current German welfare state

First Annual FRIBIS Conference 2021: Monetary Issues of
UBI

Event at the Museum: Joseph Beuys and the UBI – Founding of the FRIBIS student group – Interview with Prof. Andrea Kiesel – Conversation with Prof. Sascha Liebermann

Online-Event: NetFi first results of Circles network analysis on August 5th – Introduction FRIBIS Team NetFi – Lecture by Bernhard Neumärker on regulatory policy and UBI – FRIBIS at the Freiburg Science Market – Introduction FRIBIS team MUBINGO

Online Event: Political Participation and UBI on June 18th – BIRAL Seminar, June 14th – Introduction  FRIBIS Team Participation – Introduction FRIBIS Team Expedition – New Research Position “Expedition”

Online Event: Basic Income and Gender, June 4th – BIRAL Seminar, May 28th – Introduction  FRIBIS Team UBIG – Introduction FRIBIS Team Liechtenstein – New Working Paper by Geoff Crocker,Team FUBI