Join our Summer School in Barcelona

Dear friends,

We're excited to meet you at the 18th BIEN Congress in Tampere. So we organised a friendly get-together for Thursday evening at the Restaurant Telakka, close to the congress venue. Join us there!

And while you're packing (or just following from the distance), don't forget to sign up for the UBIE Summer School on the Politics of Basic Income in Barcelona, 13-16 September – registration is still open! We're constantly updating the event page with further details of the programme. Can you support UBIE in financing this event, which will kick-start our campaign to the 2019 European Elections? Please consider a donation via our crowdfunding page! 

Read more below – also about a flashback to the EYE meeting in Strasbourg and a first preview of the Freiburg Eurodividend conference's programme! 

Greetings from the Board of UBIE: Harald Enoksson, Dániel Fehér, Hilde Latour, Leire Rincón & Ulrich Schachtschneider

The Basic Income Earth Network Congress 2018 is opening its gates tomorrow in Tampere, Finland. UBIE will contribute in many ways: After the Nordic UBI Day on 23 August we’ll be inviting people to join us for a fun evening get-together at the Restaurant Telakka from 6pm on.

We are also running two workshops at the congress, one on how activists and researchers can work together (A7, Friday 11:15); another about the UBI Future Lab, an experiential display about the potential of basic income to change people’s lives (F7, Saturday 14:00), and will be participating in the BIEN outreach sessions for affiliates around the world (B7, Friday 14:00 and E7, Saturday 11:15). Several UBIE members, including Hilde Latour, Leire Rincón, Dániel Fehér, Maciej Szlinder, Alexander de Roo, Hermann Aubie, Vivan Storland and Barb Jacobson will be making presentations on their specialist topics and/or facilitating sessions – look out for their names in the programme!

Europe is ready for basic income! But are our elected representatives also ready? In 2017, a narrow majority of the European Parliament voted against  looking at basic income as a possible answer to the challenges of digitalisation and automation. But hey, that can be changed! At the European Elections in May 2019, we can elect more open minded candidates to the new Parliament.

How to make sure this happens? Unconditional Basic Income Europe  (UBIE) is planning to ask all candidates to the European Parliament, about their views on basic income. We will also ask if they would support concrete projects on the EU level towards the realisation of basic income – such as the introduction of a Eurodividend. If you think that an EU-wide basic income model could help re-establish solidarity among Europe’s citizens and member countries, please support our campaign!

If you want to plan this campaign together with us, register for the UBIE Summer School on the Politics of Basic Income (Barcelona, 13-16 September) now!

Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) connects over 350 active members from over 30 countries across the continent. They invest huge amounts of their time, energy and money into raising public awareness as well as support among key decision makers at EU level. As a result, basic income is now on the agenda in the policy debates of many European countries. With your help, we can strengthen our financial foundation in order to improve our work and accelerate the UBI journey.