Advancing Towards the Right to Time for Everyone

Time Use Week is a benchmark international time-policy event. It brings together researchers, political institutions, social organisations and citizens from around the world who draw on their respective fields of knowledge and experience to participate in and encourage debates on the issue, with a view to achieving an improved social organisation of time. The tenth edition took place between 21st and 25th October 2024 in Barcelona and other locations in Catalonia, in both face-to-face and online formats, under the title “Advancing towards the right to time for everyone.

This edition focused on updating the Action Plan of the Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies, with a new joint plan for both the organisations that committed in 2021 and those that have joined since then. This new Action Plan defines specific commitments for the 2024-2026 period. Emphasis was also placed on providing a holistic approach to the right to time by engaging both specialists from institutions, the social and productive networks, and the research community. It also committed to include activities and actions that reached a non-specialist audience throughout Catalonia. The hope is that by fostering collaboration among institutional, social, cultural, and economic agents, their shared practices and contributions to the right to time helped the concept take root in more local contexts. Time Use Week 2024 marked a new milestone in the progress towards consolidating the right to time. 

This publication has been made in collaboration with Catalonia International.