On January 24, 2025, FH Dortmund hosted a symposium entitled Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Soziale Infrastruktur?! (Universal Basic Income and Social Infrastructure?!), initiated by Prof. Dr. Ute Fischer. The event was organized by the Department of Applied...

A new study by Jessica Schulz, team coordinator of the FRIBIS Team UBI and Gender (UBIG), and her co-authors Ai Miyamoto and Matthias Nückles has been published in the International Journal of Educational Research. The paper shows that financial scarcity leads to...

Once again, we’re delighted to begin the year with the FRIBIS Best Paper Award. This year, the FRIBIS Board of Directors chose Maria Franchi, PhD student at the University of Bath and member of the FRIBIS Gender Team, for her outstanding contribution to the FRIBIS...

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".  ...