Unconditional Basic Income Europe’s current strategy, adopted by our General Assembly in Maribor in March 2015, defines the following four main goals for our work:
Levy support in the EU Institutions and stakeholders and facilitate cooperation between them
Make UBI a hot topic of the mainstream world
Assert the feasibility of, and arguments for, UBI and make it a credible and attractive alternative for Europe
Activate and grow UBIE while making it appealing, fun and friendly!
We work towards these objectives in the form of projects and campaigns, ongoing lobbying at EU level and in regular meetings across Europe.
Projects
In order to advance towards our strategic goals, UBIE has decided to focus on the following practical projects:
Projects
In order to advance towards our strategic goals, UBIE has decided to focus on the following practical projects:
Basic Income Pilots
Unconditional Basic Income Europe advocates for more basic income experiments throughout Europe based on jointly agreed minimum criteria, and calls on the European Union to co-finance those as well as their joint scientific evaluation.
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Eurodividend
Europe needs bolder and stronger instruments to counter the forces of disintegration. The Eurodividend – a partial basic income paid to all Europeans – could become the policy instrument that safeguards the EU and especially the Eurozone from asymmetric economic shocks and reconciles citizens with the idea of European integration.
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Agrarian Basic Income
The current industrial food system is facing a crisis of environmental degradation, health issues and pressures on farmers livelihood. We believe in the transformative potential of a basic income to further the transition towards fairer and more sustainable food systems.
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FutureLAB - Immersing into the idea of basic income
How does it feel to live in a society with a basic income? How would basic income affect my personal way of life? How would basic income become reality? What might the outcome be when people accept and deal with the freedom and responsibility linked to a basic income?
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Lobbying
On several occasions we have managed to get unconditional basic income discussed in the European Parliament and in the Council of Europe. We submitted our position on the EU’s Social Pillar consultation to the European Commission, gave evidence to the Council of Europe, and addressed Members of the European Parliament to refer to unconditional basic income in reports on the future of the welfare state in Europe. We continue to bring the debate on basic income to the attention of European decision makers.
Meetings
We have found that in order to work well together across vast distances we need to meet regularly face to face. Our meetings usually include public conferences in the localities about unconditional basic income, and also some time to work on our projects together. Due to lack of funds for interpretation, our meetings are normally in English. Whenever we manage to obtain funding, though, we try to offer bilingual meetings to make it easier for local participants to join in.
We have at least one General Assembly every year, and usually two or three other meetings at other times during the year. So far we have met in Brussels, Athens, Maribor, Budapest, Maastricht, Hamburg, Madrid, London, Ljubljana, and in Lisbon – this time coinciding with the 2017 BIEN Congress.
Our most recent meeting took place in Göteborg, Sweden, 23-25 March 2018. You can find the live recordings of two workshops here.
And see you in Tampere, at the 2018 BIEN Congress!