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The Barcelona Time Use for a Healthy Society has the goal to become a platform for meeting and discussion between people from different disciplines and activities, in order to create consensus around time policies. To advance towards this goal, an Expert Lab has been created. This meeting space for researchers, experts and activists in time use policies will enhance the scientific and political discussion on time use and guide future lines of research.

It is clear that the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on our daily life in a way we have never experienced before; it is also specifically affecting our life regarding our time use, as we are developing both our work and personal life at home in the frame of a massive lockdown and stressful or, at least, uncertain circumstances.

From the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society we are launching the first international time use campaign.

• We must take advantage of this moment to correct a historical misalignment between social time and solar time.

Although European legislation equates the rights of women and men, gender equality on how we use our time is still far from becoming a reality.

Since September, the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society will be lead by Ariadna Güell and Marta Junqué, which have been external consultants of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, presented last 7 June.

Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society internationalizes the current Catalan “Setmana dels Horaris” with the aim of celebrating the first International Time Use Week on 2020 (June 1-7)

The Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society (BTUI) participated in an international event organized by the Tempo Territoriale, which is leading the network of European cities for the uses of time (Temporelles 2019 “Le droit au temps”), held in Strasbourg on 7th and 8th November.

The International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR), is an international association that groups researchers on time use. Barcelona will be celebrating the 43th IATUR conference from 27 to 29 October 2021. The candidacy was formally announced during the 41st IATUR conference celebrated on Washington last July.

Last June the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society was presented at CIDOB within the Time Use Week. Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society is launched with the participation of key stakeholders.