Author name: Marc Martorell

The Summer School of Time is the first European training programme on time policies, an instrument that institutions can use to tackle time unrest (including time poverty). They aim at transforming the 21st-Century society in order to make it more egalitarian, more efficient, more sustainable, and healthier. The School offers two different formats to facilitate participants’ engagement: the on-line Citizen’s Summer School (10-12th June), and the on-site Public Officials Summer School (13-14th June).

Public presentation of Local and Regional Time Agenda’s volumes 3 and 4, exploring the relation between time policies and democracy, as well as time policies and the night. They compile time policies grouped into different topics, from civic participation or e-democracy to granting inclusive leisure nightlife and night governance.

This seminar aims to be a meeting space to approach working time reduction policies, as well as to reflect on the proposals that should be included in the future Time Use Law, to promote a more balanced organization of time. It will do so through the analysis of data, evidence, and impact behind specific time policies, from which the challenges and complexities in applying them to labour law, in terms of equality, education, mobility, and co-responsibility will be debated.