Author name: Marc Martorell

Time Use Week 2023 discusses tools for building a framework that ensures a new time balance between work, leisure, rest, and care. The week, which celebrates its international events in October 17th and October 18th, invites municipalities, institutions, and experts from around the world to participate. The Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council, the […]

Catalonia will be the meeting place where international representatives from municipalities, regions, international organisations, social and productive agents, and the research community will reflect on how to achieve the right to time. The conferences will be held between 16th and 20th October, highlighting the thematic days dedicated to the right to time and the role of local governments when implementing it (17th October), and on the future of working time (18th October). In preparation for the 2024 European Parliament elections, on 27th October a debate will be held with representatives of the European Parliament on how the right to time is to be placed on European Union’s agenda.

The Time Use Initiative, as technical secretariat of the Local and Regional Governments Time Network has signed an agreement to be a collaborating organisation in the Smart City Expo World Congress, the forum for a more sustainable and equitable urban future.

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The Base Study for the Time Use and Schedules Rationalisation Law has been presented, with over 100 proposals for improving time organisation in Spain. The Study has been coordinated by the Time Use Initiative, which counted with over 60 experts and consultations with the main Spanish labour unions and employer’s association.

At the 2nd Ibero-American Forum on Timetables and Time, representatives from cities in Europe and Latin America highlighted how time organisation through the right to time can increase the resilience of cities.

The Time Use Initiative was invited to participate in the Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) 2023, one of the biggest events that bring together international city officers and political representatives to exchange ideas and set priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities. Although previously unknown, digitalization of municipal services and mobility policies were the ones most commonly identified as time policies by public officials at the Summit.