Name of the social innovation: Basic Income
European Network (BIEN)
Founder: Paul-Marie
Boulanger, Philippe Defeyt and Philippe Van Parijs
Location: started in Belgium and then all over Europe
Project summary
Founded in
1986, the Basic Income European Network (BIEN)
aims to serve as a link between individuals and groups committed to, or
interested in, basic income, i.e. an income unconditionally granted to all on
an individual basis, without means test or work requirement, and in advanced
informed discussion on this topic throughout Europe. To actively encourage this debate,
BIEN publishes a newsletter which provides an up-to-date and complete
international overview on relevant events and publications. It organises
bi-annual BIEN-congresses where people from more than twenty countries have met
to report and discuss basic income and related proposals in connection with a
broad spectrum of themes, such as unemployment, European integration, poverty,
development, changing patterns of work career and family life, and principles
of social justice.
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