The Circles Coop e.G. was established in October 2020. The Coop was created by the people who were active both in the programming part of the Circles pluriverse and in the organizing of the Berlin basic income pilot. Most of them worked at the Basic Income Lab Gmbh until that time and decided to create a cooperative legal entity to have more democratic decision making and working in an approachable, open organisational form. The Circles Coop works in a strong alliance with the Bitspossed Collective, which c
The Circles Coop has two main goals. The first one is to provide empowerment and backup support to all groups around the world who use Circles or would like to get organized with this technology. We support new and smaller hubs with knowledge, skill sharing, resources and tools with the aim of helping new community hubs in engaging local businesses to join the network and give life to a more resilient and democratic economy. If you would like to organize a basic income pilot in your area using Circles, plea
Our second goal is to build up a flagship pilot in Berlin, where we can gain first hand experiences about the Circles system, improve it and prove that a community based basic income is not just a wonderful idea, but can work in practice to provide people with an unconditional basic income. In order to do this, we have partnered with Freiburg University’s Institute of Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS), which supportsus in researching the outcomes of our pilot project, writing research papers and in developing n