UBIE General Assembly 2022
Prague, 20–23 May
Yes, it’s true! After so many online meetings, we managed to meet in real life again! The 2022 General Assembly of Unconditional Basic Income Europe was held in Prague on May 20-23!
The official General Assembly took place on Saturday, 21 May, while the rest of the time was used for discussions, working groups, and networking. Enjoy the recorded keynote speeches and browse photos from the event below!
VIDEOS
PROGRAMME
Friday, 20 May
- 16:00 Welcome reception
- 18:00 Opening speech by Angelina Kussy: “Basic Income and Politics of Anti-productivism” (with Q&A)
- 19:15 Book presentation by Marek Hrubec, Martin Brabec & Markéta Minářová: “Basic Income in the World: Arguments, Experiments, History”
- 20:00 Dinner
Saturday, 21 May
- 9:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 Karl Widerquist: “Past-, Present-, and Future-Based Arguments for UBI” (with Q&A, first commentary by Mikuláš Peksa, MEP)
- 11:00 UBIE General Assembly
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:30 Working groups
- 19:00 Social event
Sunday, 22 May
- 10:00 Breakfast
- 10:30 Helena Norberg-Hodge: “UBI as part of a decentralised future”
- 12:00 Working groups
- 14:00 Closing lunch
- 16:00 City walk
Monday, 23 May
UBIE meets Czech civil society
- 13:00 Gabriela Cabaña: “Disarming the Growth Economy through Basic Income” (with Q&A)
- 16:00 Roundtable: Angelina Kussy, Adrienne Goehler, Vivan Storlund, Magdalena Davis, Šárka Homfray, Tadeáš Žďárský followed by Q&A
- 19:00 Networking
- 20:00 UBI beer
SPECIAL GUESTS
Magdalena Davis
Czech politician, biologist, mother of three; Co-chair of the Czech Green party since 2020 and mayor of a central Bohemian town since 2018; Promotes environmental protection, human rights and a just transition to the sustainable use of planetary resources
Mikuláš Peksa
Czech politician, physicist, Chair of the European Pirate Party since 2019; member of the ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament
Martin Brabec
Philosopher and sociologist based in Prague, focus on justice and related concepts of equality and freedom; National coordinator of the ECI “Start UBIs”
Eva Hejzlarová
Assistant Professor in the field of Public and Social Policy, Charles University; researching social policy, perception of financial transfers, and equal opportunities policy
Marketa Minarova
PhD candidate in historical sociology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Adrienne Goehler
Freelance journalist and curator in Berlin; former President of the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg; former Senator for Science, Research and Culture in Berlin
Šárka Homfray
Laywer at the Labour Union of State Organisations, focused on both European and Czech labour-law, also on aspects of discrimination, inequality and gender in the world of work, and on the future of work and labour in the digitalised world
Gabriela Cabaña
Anthropologist, PhD researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science and member of the Chilean Basic Income Network
Marek Hrubec
Philosopher and sociologist based in Prague, focus on social justice and equality in theory and in practice in Europe, China, Africa, and Latin America
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Founder and director of the international non-profit organisation Local Futures, a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day
Karl Widerquist
Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar; co-chair of BIEN 2010-2017; founding editor of the journal “Basic Income Studies”, and of the BIEN website “Basic Income News”
Bence Tordai
Economist, social scientist, and Member of the National Assembly of Hungary since 2018; founder of the Dialogue for Hungary party (Párbeszéd) and spokesperson between 2015 and 2018
Vivan Storlund
Researcher with a focus on human rights and theories of social justice as standards, PhD in law from the University of Helsinki, has also worked with teachers’ unions in Finland and internationally
Angelina Kussy
Anthropologist, PhD Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and member of the Spanish Universal Basic Income Network
Tadeáš Žďárský
Czech degrowth activist, works for the NGO NaZemi; one of the co-founders of the Degrowth Academy and the Czech degrowth working group