The Network is made up of diverse Catalan, French and Italian local and regional governments and aims at sharing real experiences and pushing for the further recognition of time policies on the international agenda. In the frame of the Time Use Week’s Summit on Local, Metropolitan and Regional Time Policies, the relaunch of the Local […]
Agreement to relaunch the Local and Regional Governments Time Network Read More »
Time Use Week started this Monday at 9:30 am at the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site with a conversation between Carl Honoré, voice of the Slow movement, and Carla Estivill of the Estivill Sleep Foundation on how time affects our health and well-being and tips on how to live better. Carl Honoré and Carla Estivill
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Other topics to be discussed will be the reduction of working hours and good practices promoted by municipalities in the use of time. To conclude the Congress, the first World Declaration will be presented, which calls for the regulation of the Right to Time as a right of citizenship.
“Registrations are now open for the Time Use Week and the IATUR Conference, Barcelona from October 25th to 29th.
In October 2021, the Time Use Week and the IATUR Conference will take place in Barcelona. In them, world-known investigators in time use will be part of it as Anne Clemenceau, Director of Eurostat, the Danish bestseller Camilla Kring, Oriel Sullivan, a professor of sociology of gender and University College London, the MEP leading the “right to disconnect”, Alex Agius and several international municipalities and time activists.
Barcelona will host the World Conference on Research in the Use of Time Read More »
The last session was attended by Rennes Metropole, and the City Councils of Girona and Argentona, showing that companies and cities have the ability to improve our internal clock and thus create healthier, more equal and productive habits.
In today’s session, Barcelona, Budapest, Bolzano and Solsona explained their initiatives to reorganize shopping hours, city schedules and the work of local public employees.
These initiatives started during the toughest era of pandemic restrictions, but are intended to stay in place to promote healthier and more sustainable cities.
International cycle of Urban Time Policies begins Read More »
The Time Use Week concludes with the participation of more than 500 people from around the world. For 5 days, more than 80 speakers of international reference in time use have participated in this virtual meeting that aimed at rethinking time policies and starting to build the foundations for a global agenda.
The Time Use Week will be held virtually from 23 to 29 november with more than 50 international referents to debate on time use in the current socioeconomic context and its impact in labour relations, local policies, research and the 2030 Agenda.
A week dedicated to healthy time use starts next 23 November Read More »
PRESS RELEASE – October 21, 2020 – EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA
Natural Time: An Easy, Inexpensive, and Necessary Step Toward a Healthier Society
European and North American NGOs and advocates for healthy time-use have joined to form the International Alliance for Natural Time. Backed by renowned scientists and experts in the fields of chronobiology, neuroscience, economic science, and social science, the Alliance emphasizes natural time for health, safety, education, economy, and environment. They urge governments on both continents to restore permanent, sun-based time zones as soon as possible, preferably before March of 2021.
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Many experts and researchers at global level have written about the seasonal clock change effects.