UBIE General Assembly 2024

Krakow, 27–29 September

The 2024 General Assembly of Unconditional Basic Income Europe will be held in Krakow on September 27-29, in collaboration with the Nausika Foundation.

The official General Assembly will take place on Sunday, 29 September, while the rest of the event will include discussions, working groups, and networking. The main focus of the event will be the co-creation of our European Mayors for Basic Income campaign.

Remote access will be possible for the presentation of Core Group candidates on Saturday morning and the official General Assembly on Sunday morning. Access details will be shared with registered participants shortly before the meeting.

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PROGRAMME

Friday, 27 September

17:00 Welcome reception and networking
19:00 Keynote speech (live-streamed)
20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 28 September

9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Presentation of Core Group Candidates (hybrid)
11:00 Mayors for Basic Income – Campaign launch
13:00 Lunch
14:00 City walk
16:00 Mayors for Basic Income – Working groups
19:00 Social event

Sunday, 29 September

10:00 Breakfast
10:30 UBIE General Assembly (hybrid)
12:00 Mayors for Basic Income – Next Steps
14:00 Closing lunch

SPECIAL GUESTS

Jurgen De Wispelaere

Jurgen De Wispelaere is a political theorist turned public policy scholar specialising in the political economy of basic income. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (University of Bath) and a past Visiting Professor at the Götz Werner Chair of Economic Policy & Constitutional Economic Theory (University of Freiburg). He has published extensively on the politics of basic income and is the co-editor of four volumes and is also a founding editor (with Karl Widerquist) of the interdisciplinary journal, Basic Income Studies. He is currently working on several research projects: exploring the policy impact of the recent wave of basic income experiments, examining the role of basic income in emergency situations, and the diffusion of local basic income policies in Brazil.

Fabienne Hansen

Fabienne Hansen studied Ethnology and Political Science (BA) at Heidelberg University and Social and Cultural Anthropology (MA) at the University of Freiburg. At the moment, she is a research associate at the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS). Her research interests are the making of poliscapes, poverty reduction initiatives, and municipal welfare in relation to cash transfer programs in the Global South, with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. She is further interested in the impact of cash transfers on everyday interactions and lifeworlds. Currently, she is conducting an ethnographic study on the digital community curreny arariboia in Niterói, Brazil.

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UBIE BOARD ELECTION

If you are a registered member of UBIE you can vote in this election. You should have received the instructions from our election tool (Election Buddy) in your email. Follow the instructions and contact election@ubie.org if you have any questions. The results will be announced after the end of the election (September 29 at 11:00 CEST).

LOCATION

Świętego Krzyża 11/1, 31-028 Kraków, Poland

Nausika Hub

Nausika Hub is a grass-root space for educators and activists in the heart of the Old Town in Kraków (Poland)! It is managed by the Nausika Foundation, which was established to design, promote and implement educational games for personal development and social transformation.

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