Uses of Time

The Local and Regional Governments Time Network

The Local and Regional Governments Time Network is a meeting point that aims to exchange and promote time policies driven both at the local and regional level. The Network includes municipalities, metropolises and regional governments committed to time organization as a way to improve equality, sustainability, efficiency, and the health of citizens. Barcelona City Council is part of the Executive Council of the Network. In addition, each year it recognizes the commitment to time policies of one of its members by choosing it as the World Capital of Time Policies. The first World Capital of Time Policies was Barcelona, in the year 2022-2023.

More information on timeusepolicies.info/

The Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies

The Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies is a pioneering political declaration, signed by various organisations and municipal and regional public institutions from around the world, that have the commitment and objective of developing actions to guarantee the right to time as a right of citizenship and place time policies in the international and urban political agenda. The Declaration signed in Barcelona in October 2021, and promoted by the Barcelona City Council, has been updated in October 2024 and includes a new work plan for the period 2024-2026

 

More information on the Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies

The Catalan Network for the Right to Time

The Catalan Network for the Right to Time, promoted by the Ministry of Equality and Feminism of the Catalan Government, is created to advance the right to time and a more balanced and fair organization of time throughout Catalonia. The Catalan Network for the Right to Time includes companies, entities, social stakeholders, institutions, experts, and researchers from all over Catalonia who are committed to the right to time. All of them work to advance towards a healthier, more equal, more efficient, and more sustainable use of time, as well as towards the social, economic, democratic, green, and feminist transformation of Catalonia. The Barcelona City Council has belonged to it since its creation in 2022 and is part of its driving group.

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Time4all

The Time4All project is a European project of the Network of Local and Regional Governments for Time Policies from the European Commission’s CERV call, which awards projects that promote social equality and the rights of citizens. The project expects to reach around 1,700 participants, specifically a young audience and women, who are two of the groups that suffer the most from the effects of time poverty. The project lasts two years, between 2023 and 2024, with activities aimed at local policymakers, citizens, research institutions and other social agents.

The Barcelona City Council, as one of the members of the project, organizes several events, among which the Summer School on time policies stands out, which will take place in the autumn of 2024.

More information on timeuse.barcelona/projects/time4all/

Pact for Timetable Reform

The timetable reform is a citizens' initiative that promotes timetable changes so that we can enjoy more freedom in the management of our time. Because by synchronising our time habits with those of the rest of the world and with a more orderly rhythm, we will be able to save time and, ultimately, improve our health and quality of life. Timetable reform promotes civic time habits, promoting equality between people, our capacity for good relations and, above all, our health and well-being.

The Pact for Timetable Reform is the culmination of an initiative that was launched three and a half years ago thanks to a group of experts who began the journey to get people to change their timetable habits to make them more rational and healthier.

More information on Reforma Horària.

Metropolitan Pact for the Right to Time

The Metropolitan Pact for the Right to Time becomes a framework for the development of time policies that commits the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) and the metropolitan municipalities that adhere to it, to develop policies related to the use of time and the right to time, in accordance with the Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies.

This Pact, valid until the year 2026, has been developed together with the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society (BTUI) and the councils that are part of its executive board: the Barcelona City Council, Esplugues de Llobregat City Council, Sant Boi de Llobregat City Council and Sant Cugat del Vallès City Council.

More information on the Barcelona Metropolitan Area website

DenBBora network

Bilbao City Council and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, involved in processes of social innovation in the use of time, are promoting the creation of the NETWORK of organisations in BILBAO and BIZKAIA committed to facilitating better time management and reconciliation of work, family and personal life.

More information on denbbora.eus

Tempo Territorial

It is a French national network created in 2004 that brings together scientific organisations, associations, companies and individuals with the aim of raising awareness, disseminating and exchanging knowledge in the field of time policies.

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IATUR

The International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR vzw) facilitates the exchange of ideas, methodology and data collection techniques between researchers and compilers of official statistics on daily activity patterns and changes in people's behaviour over time.

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