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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

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

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

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,

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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