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Newsletter No. 21 - 15.11.2024

The FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024: A Retrospective
 
Workshop at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, January 24, 2025 on UBI and Social Infrastructure
 
FRIBIS at the BIEN Congress 2024 in Bath
 
Basic income lecture series in Vienna and Margit Appel joins FRIBIS “care” team
 
FRIBIS team “Basisgeld” contributes expertise to public debate
 
FRIBIS XUBI team reports: Important milestone for “Hamburg testet Grundeinkommen”
 
New FRIBIS volume released: Care & Gender – Potentials & Risks of Universal Basic Income (UBI)
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Newsletter No. 20 - 02.08.2024

Basic Income and Social Power: Book Presentation and Expert Workshop at the University of Freiburg on September 4 and 5, 2024
 
FRIBIS at the Basic Income Network’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
 
Now on YouTube: Bernhard Neumärker on Basic Income and Tax Policy
 
FRIBIS is hiring: Student Assistant for Economic Experiments sought
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Newsletter No. 19 - 02.07.2024

Recapping the FRIBIS Activist Conference 2024 on “Future, Climate, and Basic Income”
 
Deadline for submissions to the FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024 extended to July 14, 2024
 
Book presentation and expert workshop on basic income and social power at the University of Freiburg (September 4 and 5, 2024)
 
20 years of Basic Income Network: Celebrating and discussing in Leipzig on July 6, 2024
 
New video on our YouTube channel: “UBI in Central and Eastern Europe: Attention, Strategies and Reforms”
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Newsletter No. 18 - 19.04.2024

Call for Papers for FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024: Towards the Development of a Full UBI? (Freiburg, October 7 – 9)
 
Participate in Basic Income Research and Earn Money: FRIBIS Team SoCoBis Hosting Basic Income Experiments in Freiburg (April 22-24)
 
23 April: Geoff Harris – Can a basic income grant reduce violence? Evidence from Namibia, Kenya and Uganda
 
25 April: “Open Forum – Feminist Definitions of Basic Income”
 
25 April: Presentation by Tobias Jäger on “Empirical Normative Research”
 
Now on YouTube: Basic Income and Reparations (Nika Soon-Shiong, Liz Fouksman, Richard Wallace & Elise Klein)
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Newsletter No. 17 - 05.03.2024

Invitation to the Activist Conference “Zukunft – Klima – Grundeinkommen” in Freiburg, April 12 to 14, 2024
 
Thomas Straubhaar’s lecture now on YouTube: „Die 3-E des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens aus ökonomischer Sicht: einfach, effektiv und effizient”
 
Talk by Otto Lehto (NYU), 7 March 2024: Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a tool of adaptation and discovery
 
Publication of two policy papers on empirical methods in basic income research
 
Competing perspectives: Bernhard Neumärker and Giacomo Corneo on the basic income on utopia.de
 
Recently published: anthology on ‘future narratives’ of the Universal Basic Income
 
Prof. Sophia Seung-yoon Lee presents her new book and the key concept of “melting labour”
 
FRIBIS Best Paper Award 2023 for young researchers goes to Franziska Leopold and Tobias Jäger
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Newsletter No. 16 - 16.12.2023

Lecture by Prof. Thomas Straubhaar on January 11, 2024: “The 3-E of a Universal Basic Income from an economic perspective: easy, effective and efficient”
 
Talk by Bru Laín & Aida Martinez: “What’s Happening in Catalunya?” (December 21, 2023)
 
This is how the 3rd FRIBIS Annual Conference went: Summary and statements from the participants
 
Review of the FRIBIS Summer School 2023
 
Looking back at the FRIBIS workshop ‘Universal Basic Income as an Economic Narrative?’ (September 20-22, 2023)
 
Interview with Toru Yamamori (Doshisha University) from the gender team on his stay in Freiburg
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Newsletter No. 15 - 08.09.2023

FRIBIS Annual Conference: “Care & Gender – Potentials & Risks of UBI”

Is a Cent a Month a Grundeinkommen? – Lecture by Toru Yamamori in Freiburg on 12 September 2023

International research project ecoMOD will be developing policy options for a resilient society

Postdoc Lisa Reuter has been awarded the Erasmus Prize for Liberal Arts and Sciences 2023

YouTube lecture series by Jurgen De Wispelaere on “The State of the Art in Basic Income Policy”

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Special issue - 09.05.2023

FRIBIS Annual Conference 2023: Call for Papers

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Newsletter No 14 - 26.04.2023

Basic Income Globetrotter: Prof. Jurgen De Wispelaere now in Freiburg

A tribute to Götz W. Werner: New YouTube videos with Prof. Bernhard Neumärker and Enno Schmidt

Evening lecture on 27 April: “Basic Income Trials: The problem of
assuring (continued) political commitment”

Evening lecture on 11 May 2023: “Basic income as an Eco-Social Policy Instrument? A Preliminary Framework and Comparative Analysis of Policy Alternatives”

Public Lecture Series on “The State Of The Art In Basic Income Policy: A Public Lecture Series”

Five policy papers published in connection with the FRIBIS Winter School 2023

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Newsletter No. 13 - 17.01.2023

Open for applications: FRIBIS Summer School on “Empirical methods of UBI investigations” in July 2023.

Götz Werner and his legacy in Freiburg. On the first anniversary of his death.

A new team at FRIBIS: European Basic Income Scheme (EUBIS)

New FRIBIS Discussion Paper on the connection between labour shares, technological transformation and the UBI – International Women’s Day and Universal Basic Income

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Newsletter No. 12 - 17.01.2023

Looking back at 2022 and ahead to 2023

Hybrid Evening Lecture by Philippe van Parijs: “A world in crisis: boost or damper for basic income?”

Keynote by Miriam Laker-Oketta: Basic Income and its role in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss (Film, 80 min)

Keynote by Sarath Davala (BIEN): “Towards a Basic Income Society: what humankind needs to do before we get there”

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Newsletter No 11 - 25.11.2022

FRIBIS Winter School with Philippe van Parijs: Today’s global challenges and the UBI debate

Evening lecture on 15 December 2022 by Tanja Kirn: “Modelling labor supply responses – what are the underlying assumptions?”

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Newsletter No. 10 - 29.09.2022

FRIBIS Annual Conference 2022: Basic Income & Development
 
Sanktionfrei’s final report on the Hartz Plus study has been released
 
FRIBIS at the BIEN Congress 2022: Basic Income in Times of Crisis and Transformation
 
Now on YouTube: On the ethics of UBI – Enno Schmidt talking to Karl Widerquist (video interview)
 
Workshop: Universal Basic Income’s Social-Ecology? Theory and Evidence revisited
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Newsletter No. 9 - 29.07.2022

Visiting professor Ute Fischer at FRIBIS in the summer semester 2022
 
Karl Widerquist: Lecture on the prehistory of private property and workshop series on YouTube
 
Establishment of FRIBIS team “Basic Income for Nature and Climate” (BINC)
 
Lectures by Bernhard Neumärker on Basic Income during the climate crisis
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Special Newsletter

FRIBIS Annual Conference 2022

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Newsletter No. 8 - 14.03.2022

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

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Special Newsletter

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

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Newsletter No. 7 - 20.01.2022

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)

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Newsletter No. 6 - 19.11.2021

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

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Newsletter No. 5 - 05.10.2021

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

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News from FRIBIS - Announcement of the first annual FRIBIS conference 2021 - 24.09.2021

First Annual FRIBIS Conference 2021: Monetary Issues of UBI

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Newsletter No. 4 - 16.09.2021

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

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Newsletter No. 3 - 29.07.2021

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

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Newsletter No. 2 - 12.06.2021

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”

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Newsletter No. 1 - 26.05.2021

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