Author name: Marc Martorell

Time Use Week 2025 is the international event for the promotion and exchange of knowledge and success stories about time policies. The main events will be held in Barcelona on October 13, 14, and 15, under the theme “The Right to Time in the Era of Artificial Intelligence”. It invites us to reflect on how the uses of time that are emerging at this moment of digital transformation are impacting the right to time. This will be an opportunity to address the demographic, economic, social, political, and care challenges we face.

Scheduled for Wednesday 30th April, from 9:30 to 11:30, the event will aim to reflect on the value of time and the need to promote new ways of organising working time. The main topic under discussion will be reducing working time to 37.5 hours per week, a measure which is already being implemented in different organisations with a proven impact on well-being, efficiency, and equality.

The Time Academy offers a framework to learn and exchange on time policies. Building upon experiences from municipalities and regions, the Academy provides urban officers, decision-makers, and practitioners with a practical training programme designed to implement time-conscious governance within their respective levels of competence. This capacity-building approach guarantees participants not only comprehend temporal governance concepts — but also acquire practical implementation skills. 

Side event at CSW69. Coorganised between the Time Use Initiative and the Global Alliance for Care, we analyse how the rights to care and time impact social equality and well-being.

The Time Use Week (TUW) is a global event dedicated to promoting knowledge and inspiring case studies in time policies. Researchers, political institutions, social and economic organisations, and citizens from around the world will participate to foster dialogue across diverse fields of expertise and experiences, aiming for improved social organization of time. The tenth edition of TUW will take place from 21st to 25th October, with international days being 21st and 22nd, in Barcelona, and will be themed “Advancing towards the Right to Time for Everyone”.