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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.

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.

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.

Many experts and researchers at global level have written about the seasonal clock change effects.

Participants such as Carl Honoré and Judy Wajcman and representatives of the International Labour Organization, the European Trade Union Confederation, the 4-day Week Foundation, among others, both local and international, will take part.

All over Europe, time of citizens faces acceleration, coordination difficulties, time squeeze, temporal inequalities and injustice. In this memorandum, we call upon the European institutions to provide for explicit time policies leading to better quality of life and healthier and sustainable society, to just relationships of genders and generations and to sustainable development

The former Setmana dels Horaris (Timetables Week), that this year will take place from 23 to 29 November in Barcelona, arrives at its 7th edition becoming the Time Use Week, consolidating locally and beginning the transition towards its internationalization. A hundred Catalan municipalities and companies will participate in this new edition, also counting with 20 international experts.

Last Friday 5th June, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Diputació de Barcelona and the Ajuntament de Barcelona, together with the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society