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The Time Agreement is carrying out activities within the framework of the Lleida’s Network for the Time Agreement, composed by 16 local organisations and companies. It has carried out 40 activities affecting trade, consumption and restoration, the productive sector, municipal services, and educational leisure.

From the 24th to 26th October, the ninth Time Use Week —the international meeting point on time policies— was held. Over 150 panellists from all over the world representing universities, companies, and organisations took part in the event. They reflected on the relation between time use and the inequalities —poverty— it creates, and whether the right to time must be a right in the 21st Century.

A brief report on the Time Use Week third day, where the organisation of working times was discussed. International experiences were analysed and academic proposals to a future Spanish Time Use Law were made.

A brief report on the Time Use Week second day, where the Local and Regional Governments TIME Network General Assembly was hold, and local and regional time policies related with sustainability were reviewed.

A brief report on the Time Use Week first day, where key concepts were discussed and proposals on how to alleviate time inequalities were made.

The European Union Parliament approved the end of seasonal clock changes back in 2019 but the Member States cannot decide on how to proceed. Now, a group of renowned experts have proposed a transition plan showing an easy and beneficial solution for all Member States.

It has been a pioneering event that enabled the creation of a unique meeting point in the Ibero-American sphere aimed at exchanging experiences and knowledge on time uses.

As part of the Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies strategy towards granting the right to time, the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society (BTUI) has been working with Catalan institutions towards promoting time policies all over Catalonia. The region’s main institutions (the Catalan Government, the Barcelona City Council, the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona,

The first edition of the Iberoamerican Time and Schedules Week (Semana Iberoamericana de los Horarios y el Tiempo) will take place virtually in mid-September, creating an exchange point of policies, experiences, and knowledge related with time policies. The event will gather Iberoamerican experts, political and social representatives, such as Diego Golombek, researcher at the National

The Commission on Universities and Research of the Catalan Parliament has summoned the co-coordinators of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative (BTUI), Marta Junqué and Ariadna Güell, who explained the “opportunity to consolidate Catalonia as a meeting point for research and public policy in time uses, so citizenry’s wellness can be improved.”