Basic Income for Peacebuilding (BIP)
The Basic Income for Peacebuilding (BIP) research group aims to examine the applicability of Basic Income in post-conflict contexts for the purpose of supporting such societies advance towards resilience, sustainability and social peace.
Basisgeld
Das FRIBIS-Team Basisgeld investigates the parameters of a partial Universal Basic Income (called “Basisgeld”) in Germany.
BINC
FRIBIS-Team BINC investigates the possible links between basic income, biodiversity conservation and climate change.
care
The FRIBIS Team care does research on UBI with respect to care activities in society.
Expedition BGE
“Expedition Basic Income” is directed onto referenda in various federal states in Germany for the implementation of test projects on unconditional basic income on the part of the state governments.
Financing UBI (FUBI)
This team researches the macroeconomic feasibility and implications of a basic income funded by debt-free sovereign money. This implies a new approach to government monetary and fiscal policy.
Microsimulation
The themes of the research team concern the use of microsimulation to evaluate Universal Basic Income’s likely effects.
MUBINGO
Promoting the concept of unconditional basic income through effective management of UBINGOs: a research from the perspective of social innovation and social marketing.
NetFi
The NetFi team researches and supports complimentary and community currencies (CCC) that use an unconditional basic income (UBI) as a distribution mechanism.
Participation & UBI
The PartUBI team aims to systematically and historically explore the connections between political participation and the unconditional basic income. Special focus is laid on their conceptualisation as ‘narratives’ of the future’.
Sanctions-Free
Sanktionsfrei (“Sanctions-free”) envisions a society based on solidarity and trust for everybody. To this end we are trying to reform the current German unemployment system “Hartz 4”.
SoCoBis
The FRIBIS Team SoCoBis aims to explore modern social contract theory and conduct experimental research into the social contract conditions and rules for a basic income society.
UBI and Gender
Grassroots feminist economic and political thoughts and their relevance and potential to a new social contract with particular focus on UBI.
UBITrans
Das FRIBIS-Team UBITrans asks whether a universal basic income would enable the social-ecological transformation.
Universal Basic Income Liechtenstein
The FRIBIS research team analyzes the financial budget of the Principality of Liechtenstein and addresses the question of how an unconditional basic income for all citizens of the country can be financed without significant additional financial expenditure by appropriately managing the existing financial flows.
VATUBI
The working group investigates the effects of a change in the tax system on consumption tax/value-added tax, including the effects on the shadow economy, and VAT as a possibly congenial form of financing the unconditional basic income.
WEF_FABI
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus & Foreign Aid Basic Income Team (WEF_FABI) is investigating to what extent the introduction of a UBI can contribute to strengthening the resilience of social and ecological systems in developing countries.