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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, […]

The Istanbul Innovation Days have placed time as one of the transversal issues that societies must prioritize to face global challenges and guarantee the well-being of citizens. Experts from the Time Use Initiative (TUI) and the World Capital of Time 2025, Bogota, have participated in various activities to reflect and publicize the benefits of time

The initiative involves 21 partners from nine countries, aiming to engage 1,800 participants in discussions and exchanges on time policies during 2025-2026.

On the eve of the upcoming clock change, Members of the European Parliament and experts gathered to analyse its effects and urge the responsible institutions to approve ending seasonal clock change by 2026.

Last February 18, the Time Use Initiative (TUI) held meetings with the majority of political groups in the Congress of Deputies to analyse the benefits of reducing and rationalising the working day. On February 4, the Council of Ministers approved the Draft Law for the reduction of the maximum duration of the ordinary working day

The Time4All project, funded by the European Commission’s CERV programme, has organised activities to exchange knowledge and create links between European local and regional authorities interested in implementing time policies. The project has promoted the recognition of the Local and Regional Governments Time Network as the key stakeholder in advancing towards time policies at the

We enter 2025 with renewed enthusiasm and a horizon full of possibilities for the right to time. The year 2024 has been a year of several steps forward that fill us with hope and energy to move forward. We have achieved milestones that, until recently, seemed distant: more than 200 global organisations have joined the Barcelona

One of the key topics at the United Nations Development Program’s main event of the year will be time as a transversal issue that societies should prioritise, together with well-being, care, and happiness, to face systemic global challenges. The Time Use Initiative celebrates the UN’s inclusion of time in its global agenda as a step

As part of the strategy to put the right to time on the agenda of EU’s policies, on 2 December a Time Use Initiative delegation participated in the expert hearing organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels to contribute to the EU’s priorities at the UNCSW69 United Nations Women’s Conference taking

First meeting of the Time Use Initiative with Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to set a roadmap to promote the right to time and end with biannual clock change in Europe This is the first time a specific meeting on time policies is being held at the European Parliament, marking a historic milestone