Dear Friend,

In less than 24 hours, our in person UBIE meeting will start in Krakow: the UBIE General Assembly 2024, which will take place this Friday to Sunday.

We are excited to announce that the meeting will be opened at 19:00 CEST on Friday, 27 September, by a joint keynote of Jurgen De Wispelaere and Fabienne Hansen with the title: "Getting Pilots Done" followed by a discussion. We will live stream this on the event page and also try to include questions from the stream comments!

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 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.

The Krakow meeting, where we will kick-off our campaign "Mayors For UBI", is open for UBIE members and non-members alike. Help us promoting it by sending your friends the link to the event page or inviting them to the Facebook event!

Can you afford to contribute to our expenses? As well as covering the costs of the venue and catering, we also want to make it possible for those who are unable to pay for their own travel and accommodation to attend. There is no big money behind UBIE - we rely on your support.

We look forward to welcoming you to this important gathering, either in beautiful Krakow or virtually. Your participation will be invaluable as we chart the future of UBI across Europe.