Unconditional Basic Income Europe
Our Mission
Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) is an international network connecting activists and initiatives from 25 countries. We advocate for the implementation of Basic Income in Europe and its recognition as a Universal Human Right. As a result of our efforts, basic income is now entering the policy agenda in many European countries and on a European Union (EU) level. Together with you, we want to push this development even further.
Our Projects
Our Projects
Campaign Mode On! 2019 UBIE General Assembly in Berlin
In just a few months time, citizens across Europe will be asked to elect a new European Parliament. As citizens, we aim for a new majority that wants to re-build solidarity in the EU and is open to discuss basic income as a new basis for a social Europe. So the focus...
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Did Finland’s basic income experiment succeed or fail?
Finland’s experiment has the first results and, contrary to the headlines over the world, it has valuable and positive inputs for our understanding of its consequences. The second part of the data will only be available in 2020, given that the final phase of the...
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Euro-Dividend as Sociopolitical Pillar of the EU and its Member States
Conference at the University of Freiburg In October 11-12, 2018 about 50 participants from both social sciences and Basic Income movement all over Europe met at an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Freiburg, Germany. They discussed the Euro-Dividend as...
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Positions – Debates – Ideas
Basic income is not left or right, it’s forward
As the public debate on basic income grows, so too does interest in public opinion on basic income policy. Hence, the Dalia Research surveys on basic income support, the Ipsos Mori Survey (UK) and most recently, the last round of the European Social Survey, have all...
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A Liberal Euro-Dividend
Reflecting on the critical global challenges that we are soon to confront, it is important to consider the repercussions that an Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) for all European citizens would have for entrepreneurship, progress, fairness and sustainability, and to...
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Basic income: Creator of Entrepreneurs
Does technological advancement make Unconditional Basic Income inevitable? Perhaps not. But we need it to compensate for the speed of the social change this technology brings us.
read moreMeet our activists
Anja Askeland
Vice-Chair
“Unconditional Universal Basic Income is the best policy to realize Article 25 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Aurélie Hampel
Secretary
“I believe in the potential of Unconditional Basic Income to reduce suffering at work and mental health issues by offering the power for each individual to organise its own life.”
Barb Jacobson
Press Officer
“Basic Income beautifully combines the strands of my current and previous work into one key demand.”
Meet our activists
Anja Askeland
Vice-President
“Unconditional Universal Basic Income is the best policy to realize Article 25 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Aurelie Hampel
Secretary
“I believe in the potential of UBI to reduce suffering at work and mental health issues by offering the power for each individual to organise its own life.”
Barb Jacobson
Press Officer
“Basic Income beautifully combines the strands of my current and previous work into one key demand”