Project Zero Income (PZI) is an informal, open-source, non-profit organization founded in the Netherlands in January 2025.

The main goal of PZI is to popularize the Resource-Based Economy (RBE) globally and present a comprehensive vision of the future world. This vision encompasses not only architecture but also a new value system and way of thinking.

Specifically, PZI aims to transfer information infrastructure—knowledge, education, and skills—from centralized, profit-driven systems to a network based on community, trust, and shared responsibility. PZI seeks to restructure values, moving from competition and privatization toward collaboration, sharing, and gifting.

While supporting RBE principles, PZI operates independently and does not represent The Venus Project.

Main Task

PZI’s primary initiative is to create a virtual school designed to replace traditional schools, including conventional examination systems. The school leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and RBE coaching, managing large flows of information and advancing the development of information infrastructure.

Focus of AutoCAD Projects and Research

PZI research focuses on:

• AI and cognitive frameworks: analyzing how current monetary systems shape thought processes and designing methodologies to renew educational models aligned with human-centered values.

• Information infrastructure governance: redesigning knowledge systems to maximize utility for society, using industrial design techniques such as systems modeling, iterative prototyping, and design for adaptability.

• Future research center architecture: envisioning environments that foster motivation through creativity, artistic practice, self-realization, and scientific inquiry into both the external world and human nature.

• Virtual learning bases: enabling students to take an active role in experimental education, demonstrating that motivation and learning can exist without monetary incentives.

Virtual School Project

Three Core Categories

1. Information Infrastructure
   Focuses on how to manage, organize, filter, and disseminate knowledge. It includes AI-assisted learning and building knowledge ecosystems to empower communities and foster self-directed education.

   
   

2. Strategic Industries

   
   Covers sectors and technologies shaping future societal motivation, creativity, and sustainability, including AI, energy, biotech, urbanism, culture, and alternative economic models.

   
   

3. Methodological Approach / Collaboration
   Teaches students how to access, manage, and apply knowledge while building meaningful connections. Beyond knowing who to contact, it emphasizes how to communicate and collaborate effectively:

   • Information gathering and networking: identifying key researchers, startups, artists, and institutions.

   • Collaboration skills: approaching people respectfully and ethically, exchanging knowledge mutually.

   • Behavioral technologies / communication skills: understanding human psychology, adapting communication to audiences, active listening, framing questions, and presenting ideas clearly.

   • Practical engagement: participating in joint projects, co-creating knowledge, contributing to open-source research.

   • Ethics and trust-building: giving proper credit, demonstrating reliability, and committing to long-term shared goals, consistent with RBE principles.

Purpose of the Virtual School 

The virtual school is designed to:

• Teach students about global changes and sustainable futures, helping them understand systemic ecological, social, and technological dynamics.

• Develop creative problem-solving skills, enabling students to integrate knowledge across domains and design solutions independent of money or traditional economics.

• Foster motivation and values transformation, showing how future motivation systems under RBE can work beyond monetary incentives.

• Equip students with the ability to use and create information infrastructure, leveraging AI, open-source resources, and knowledge bases for the benefit of communities.

• Encourage collaboration with global experts, identifying and connecting with key people, institutions, and startups to access cutting-edge research.

World Center for Future Research Centers (Virtual School) 

The virtual school functions as a hub for global future studies:

• Conceptual hub: connecting knowledge of systemic global changes, emerging technologies, and social experiments.

• Research laboratory: AI and learning bases simulate new educational, economic, and cultural structures.

• Motivation center: inspiring people to focus on creativity, community, and knowledge as primary resources rather than money.

• Community network: linking researchers, artists, engineers, and students worldwide, forming a mini global RBE ecosystem.