2025 has been a key year in achieving the right to time, with the issue increasingly becoming a central topic on the agendas of governments around the world. Throughout the year, all the agents collaborating with the Time Use Initiative (TUI) have achieved 12 milestones that reflect an international and local commitment to ensuring better […]
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The Local and Regional Time Policy Network has presented Local and Regional Time Agenda 5, which brings together 19 good practices in working time policies that promote more balanced, healthy, efficient and sustainable working models in cities and regions. The event brought together more than 100 participants from around the world, mainly professionals from public
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Time Use Initiative (TUI) association have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Time Use Initiative (TUI), based in Barcelona, is a leading international organization dedicated
The Local and Regional Time Network, which brings together the world’s leading cities working on the right to time, has awarded Sant Boi de Llobregat the recognition that distinguishes innovative cities in the implementation of time policies. Sant Boi has been recognized both for its trajectory in time policies, which began in 2011, and for
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Time Use Week 2025 concludes its eleventh edition by reaffirming the role of time policies as a key tool to ensure well-being and equality in the digital age. More than 4,600 people from 46 countries have taken part in the main events and in over 85 decentralised activities across Catalonia. More than 40 international experts
The Time Use Initiative (TUI) welcomes the Spanish Government’s announcement to support the elimination of the annual clock change from 2026 and to propose this goal to the Council of the European Union, the body responsible for its final approval. The TUI believes that this momentum could reignite a European debate that has been stalled
The Time Use Initiative participated in the Marmara Urban Forum 2025 (MARUF 2025), which brings together the world’s leading urban actors every two years with the aim of exchanging good practices and devising collective solutions to address global challenges at the local level. With the round table discussion ‘Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, Local Time Policies’, MARUF 2025
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A Catalan delegation comprising the Time Use Initiative and leading institutions in time policy in Catalonia — the Government of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Provincial Council and the Barcelona Metropolitan Area — took part in the Bogotá Forum. The Forum is part of the celebration of Bogotá as World Capital of Time 2025, designated
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By Lina Botero – FiLBo “The fact that the United Nations has prioritized time can be the seed of more humane public policies that integrate health, education, urban planning, and work from a temporal perspective.” Diego Golombek holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and is an Argentinian science communicator,
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