Report by Larissa Walter, member of FRIBIS staff This year the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society was held in New York City, from November 21 to 24, 2024. The conference is a significant international gathering for cognitive psychologists from over 40...

The FRIBIS Annual Conference 2024 (7 – 9 October), held at the University of Freiburg, was titled “Towards the development of a full UBI? Perspectives for partial approaches in various welfare systems.” The conference attracted over 40 speakers and 79 registered...

Now more than ever: The dispute over the German federal government's budget draft, obligations due to acute crises such as the Ukraine war, economic downturn, and looming revenue losses due to the outcome of the US election seem to leave no room for social policy...

This year's BIEN Congress took place at the University of Bath (UK) from August 29 to 31. Titled "Reclaiming radical roots: Basic income and Socio-Ecological Transformation," the event explored the potential of basic income to create an economically just, politically...

The University of Vienna is hosting a lecture series in the winter semester 2024/25 on "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen – Baustein für gesellschaftliche Transformation und Politikgestaltung" (Universal Basic Income – A Tool for Social Transformation and Policy Making)....

Two members of the FRIBIS "Basisgeld" team recently contributed to the public debate on direct transfer payments. On October 17, 2024, Dr. Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn, Member of the German Parliament and FRIBIS Basisgeld team member, presented the Basisgeld concept...

The "Hamburg Tests Basic Income" initiative has achieved a significant breakthrough: On October 1, 2024, the campaign submitted 95,842 signatures to the Hamburg Senate - far exceeding the required threshold (65,000 signatures) for Germany's first state-funded basic...

FRIBIS has released volume 5 of its publication series, titled Care & Gender – Potentials & Risks of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Edited by Bernhard Neumärker and Jessica Schulz, this volume presents selected proceedings from the FRIBIS Annual Conference...

UBI Bath and the University of Bath (United Kingdom), in collaboration with FRIBIS and the University of Freiburg, are hosting a Winter School from November 4-6, 2024, on the topic "Basic Income in the Context(s) of the Global South: Ideas, Challenges, and Debates".  ...

At the recent BIEN Congress, held from August 29 to 31 at the University of Bath, UBIdata was unveiled as an innovative tool for advancing basic income research. This pioneering project aims to deliver reliable information on basic income to a rapidly expanding global...

On July 6, 2024, the Basic Income Network commemorated its 20th anniversary at the Budde-Haus in Leipzig with a series of lectures, discussions and panels. The event, attended by approximately 60-70 participants per session, convened a diverse group of scientists,...

FRIBIS Director, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumärker, was a guest on the show "Das liebe Geld" (loosely translated as “Our precious money”) on Radio Sol in July 2024. In conversation with the hosts, Ilse Pforr and Gerhard Pellegrini, he addressed the topics of basic income...