Time Use Week 2024, held in Barcelona and online from 21 to 25 October 2024, has marked a new milestone in advancing the right to time. Here are the main conclusions of this edition: The action plan 2024-2026 of the Barcelona Declaration for Time Policies, the global agreement to guarantee the right to time, has […]
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The Strasbourg Metropolitan City has organised on 28 and 29 November 2024, at the European Parliament, the World Capital of Time’s central event “Taking care of others, taking care of oneself: towards a right to time(s) in Europe”. After Barcelona in Spain and Bolzano in Italy, the City of Strasbourg has led as the World
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200 world-leading organizations in time policies update their commitment and the new work plan of the Declaration. The new work plan was presented during the inauguration of Time Use Week, with the participation of the Minister for Equality and Feminism, and representatives of the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Provincial Council and the Metropolitan Area,
Local and regional institutions from all over Europe and experts ask the new European Commission to reactivate the process to make the end of the seasonal clock change effective by 2026 Once again, on 27 October, European citizens will turn their clocks back one hour to winter time, “the closest to our natural rhythms”. The
More than 500 people have participated in the Summer School of Time, the first European training program on time policies that has shown time policies are an essential tool for addressing time stress (which includes time poverty) as well as the increasing interest of citizens and social organisations in time policies, that are already at
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The Time Use Initiative has launched its EU Manifesto on Time Policies, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at championing the Right to Time for all European citizens. The EU Manifesto on Time Policies, Tick-Tock Europe, advocates for 12 key changes that can be implemented by the EU from 2024 onwards to safeguard the right to time.
Representatives of London, Trento and Strasbourg presented examples of best practices of night-time policies as implemented in their cities. These are all in relation to how they navigate the urban night from a holistic point of view, considering it in the frame of a 24-hour city. Night governance strategies and the model of Night Mayors
The EU must end seasonal clock changes, as changing clocks to the wrong time zone negatively impacts individual health and the economy EU Parliament elections taking place the next coming June 9 are foreseen as a key opportunity to influence the different EU political parties/representatives to take a step forward, as the Council of the
