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 income pilots have been launched around the world in recent years. Nevertheless, there is as still no international platform to enable the mutual exchange of pilot results to promote collaboration within different teams or help researchers to work effectively with policy-makers. The UBI Experiments Team aims to change this by setting up the first global pilot network. With Jurgen De Wispelaere, Karl Widerquist, Leah Hamilton, Miriam Opwonya Laker, Neil Howard and Nika Soon-Shiong, the team includes many well-known faces from the Basic Income scene.
Next steps
The team has set itself a 4-point plan to be tackled, starting this year. 1) Starting in the summer of 2023, UBI Experiments will publish a monthly newsletter for the global pilot community, providing updates on research, policy developments, possible meetings, publications and opportunities for collaboration. 2) The team will also host a quarterly online seminar series in which members of the pilot project community can share and discuss the latest findings and developments in their work. 3) In late 2023 the team will host a FRIBIS Winter School entitled “How to Build a Pilot” for students, researchers and pilots. (This will complement the one-day Summer School offered by FRIBIS in July 2023). 4) Finally, the team will host the world’s first pilot community conference at FRIBIS in summer 2024.
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