The Revenu Universel Genève association, founded in February 2025, is launching a small-scale citizen's Unconditional basic income project [1] (UBI). For the moment, it amounts to a symbolic sum of Fr. 5 per week. Anyone can participate in this project as a sponsor-donor or beneficiary, the latter on the sole condition that they are resident in the canton.
The aim of this private basic income initiative is to give new meaning to solidarity, and to test the effects of the UBI on the individual receiving it and those around him or her. It will also enable the participating population to familiarize themselves with the principles of the UBI. The project is starting in Geneva, but may eventually be extended to the whole of Switzerland.
The association behind the project has already conceptualized the practical operation of this local UBI, as well as the human resources and office infrastructure needed to manage it, one of the reasons for its determination to move forward step by step, starting in Geneva.
Links:
[1] https://ru-ue.ch/