Events

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”.

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.

Time organization is a social agreement that defines our ability to fully develop as individuals. This cycle will discuss how the right to (our own) time can reduce inequalities, rebalance the rhythms of our lives, and provide greater well-being for citizens. Event held in two conferences: 17th and 31st January in Barcelona.

Urban policies do not usually include time use as a key factor, and yet cities are constantly trying to influence it. By adding new and faster mobility routes, providing childcare that saves time to caregivers, or applying the famous 15-minute city concept which connects time and space, cities change the everyday life of their citizens. Time policies allow cities to innovate by placing time at the centre of the urban agenda.

The Time Use Week is the international event for promoting knowledge and inspiration cases on time policies. Researchers, political institutions, social organisations, and citizens from all over the world participate and push the debate, advocating from their different fields of expertise, towards a better social time organisation. The upcoming tenth edition will take place between October 16th and 20th in Barcelona, under the motto “Towards a new time balance”.

The 2nd Ibero-American Time and Schedules Forum is the second edition of the summit for time organisation in Latin America. It is a series of conferences based on exchanging policies, experiences, and knowledge in relation to time policies. The targeted audience are researchers, public officials, and civil society from Ibero-America.