Terrassa City Council has participated in the second international meeting of the European project on policies and uses of time, Time4All, in the city of Bolzano (Italy), leader of the project and current world capital of time 2023/2024. This Italian city was chosen by the “Network of Local and Regional Governments of Time Policies”, after Barcelona – which has been the world capital during 2022 and until March 23, 2023-. This European network, coordinated by Barcelona Time Use (BTUI), aims to generate more awareness and give more visibility to time policies, and to extend its positive impacts to society, its actors and the planet, as they propose the strategic frameworks of the local and global agendas through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As part of the activities promoted by Bolzano, several initiatives have been organized this month of May to promote the importance of time, and its value for the well-being and life standrads of citizens. The most important was the Time Week, on the 10th, 11th and 12th of May, in the capital of South Tyrol. The days have had three axes to debate and share experiences. The first session was about whether time policies constitute a policy for innovation at the different levels of government: local, provincial, regional, state and European. The second day, called “Time to connect”, was focused on how cities become a place where different uses of time must coexist without conflicts; for example, leisure time and night mobility, etc. And the last one dealt with intelligent work and the new modes of relationship in the world of work within companies, mobile work, pros and cons of the new days, and the impact on companies, in the people who work there and in their environment (family, neighborhood…). On the central day of Time Week (Time Week), the partners of the project – among them the City Council of Terrassa through the European and International Relations Service – held the Time4All working meeting in order to analyze the progress of the project, monitor it and plan the activities scheduled for next June (exchange of time policies with cities in Latin America) and for the month of October, with a new edition of Time Use Week in Barcelona.
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We are in a moment of cultural transition in the measurement of time and we have moved from a linear time to the concept of collective time, shared in the space of the city. The purpose of these policies is to continue working in the field of family and work reconciliation, sustainable mobility, the right to time and to personal and community attention, the harmonization of the timetables of public service offices, digitization and otehr aspects to which the European project wants to respond.
The TIME4All project, lasting two years, belongs to the call CERV-2022-CITIZENS-TOWN, of the European Program CERV “Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values”, and the city of Terrassa is part of the project consortium.
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