Time4ALL – European project on time policies
The Time4All project is part of the European Commission’s CERV programme, which awards projects that promote social equality and citizens’ rights. The project expects to reach about 1,700 participants, specifically the youth and women, who are the ones suffering from time poverty effects the most. The project will have a duration of two years, between 2023 and 2024, and will carry out several activities aimed at local policymakers, citizens, research institutions, and other social partners.
Time policies promote a better time organisation to improve citizens’ health, equality, productivity, and sustainability, as well as increase civic participation. Promoting a new time organisation, local and regional authorities can respond to the popular demand in recent years — which asks for a more sustainable, more egalitarian life, and a new relation between paid work, unpaid care work, and life. The local and regional dimension has been identified as the area where people live their daily lives, and where a real and crucial difference can be made in the way they organise their time.
European municipalities have pioneered in promoting time policies since the 1990s and, in order to collaborate, they created the Local and Regional Governments TIME Network in 2008. Now, with the “Time4All project”, the Network aims at:
- Expanding, deepening and intensifying the cooperation and exchanges of towns, cities, and regions to improve the use of time.
- Fostering time policies among European municipalities by contributing to build up a new narrative for Europe.
- Promoting the involvement of citizens in the definition, implementation, and evaluation of time policies.
The project is led by the city of Bergamo and the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society (BTUI), the international organisation promoting time policies and the right to time, whom currently manages the Secretariat of the Network.
Project members
The project is formed by 20 partners from 7 EU countries (France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Greece):
- Public institutions: the Municipality of Barcelona (Spain), the Municipality of Bergamo (Italy), the Municipality of Bolzano (Italy), the Municipality of Esplugues de Llobregat (Spain), the Metropolitan City of Strasbourg (France), the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Spain), the Municipality of Milan (Italy), the Metropolitan City of Milan (Italy), the Municipality of Lleida (Spain) the Municipality of Terrassa (Spain), the Provincial Council of Barcelona (Spain), the Catalan Government (who dynamise of the Catalan Network on the Right to Time), the Municipality of Trikala (Greece), the Municipality of Graz (Austria), the Municipality of Zwickau (Germany), the Municipality of Verviers (Belgium), and the Municipality of Cremona (Italy).
- European Time Policies Associations: Tempo Territorial (France), Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, BTUI (Spain), and Synergie Wallonie pour l’Egalité entre les Femmes et les Hommes (Belgium).
Time4All events
During 2023 and 2024, the Time4All project has planned different events aimed at local policymakers, citizens, research institutions, and other social partners.
This is the full calendar of activities related with the Time4All project. Information will be updated as the event approaches:
Project kick-off
- Description: The event will mark the beginning of the project, launching the key activities and establishing the project key guidelines.
- Place: Bergamo, Italy.
- Date: 21/02/2023
Presentation of the Local and Regional Time Agenda – Topic 2: Time and sustainability
- Description: public presentation of the Local and Regional Time Agenda, topic 2: related with time and sustainability
- Place: on-line
- Date: 20/04/2023
Official launch of Bolzano’s World Capital of Time Policies
- Description: Bolzano will host a launching event on the occasion of it becoming the World Capital of Time Policies 2023
- Place: Bolzano, Italy.
- Date: 10-12/05/2023
Regional exchange event in Latin America
- Description: second edition of the regional Time Use Week in Latin America (II Semana de los Horarios y el Tiempo), where time policies will be adapted to the regional context.
- Place: on-line
- Date: 12-15/06/2023
Annual Network’s Assembly
- Description:
- Place: Barcelona, Spain.
- Date: October 2023
Local and Regional Time Agenda, topic 3
- Description: public presentation of the Local and Regional Time Agenda, topic 3
- Place: on-line
- Date: May 2024
Official launch of the World Capital of Time Policies 2024
- Description: A city yet to be defined will host a launching event on the occasion of it becoming the World Capital of Time Policies 2024
- Place: TBD
- Date: June 2024
Sumer School on time policies
- Description: Summer School on time policies for citizens (on-line) and policymakers (in person).
- Place: Barcelona, Spain, and on-line
- Date: September 2024
Annual Network’s Assembly
- Description:
- Place: Barcelona, Spain.
- Date: October 2024
Publications
As part of the Time4All project, the following publications are foreseen. They will be made available when published:
- Local and Regional TIME Agenda – Topic 2: Time and sustainability
- Local and Regional TIME Agenda – Topic 3 (To be defined)
- Local and Regional TIME Agenda – Topic 4 (To be defined)
- Resources from the Summer School on Time Policies for citizens
