Catalonia International invites six foreign experts in time policies

The 12th Time Use Week (TUW) took place from 13 to 15 October in Barcelona under the motto "The Right to Time in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". TUW is an international event designed to promote the exchange of knowledge and success stories on time policies and the right to time. Researchers, political institutions, companies, social organisations and citizens from all over the world from different fields of knowledge and experience took part in the debates to achieve improvements in the social organisation of time.

TUW 2025 has focused on how the emergence of artificial intelligence in particular, and technological advances in general, pose a new horizon of possibilities for addressing the challenges involved in improving the organization of time use towards the year 2050.

Catalonia International has organized, together with the Time Use Initiative, an international visitors program aimed at a group of people from international organizations and networks, local governments and universities that work on time policies. The objective was, on the one hand, to position Catalonia as a reference for change in time use, and on the other, to promote these policies at an international level so that they can become global.

The hearing was attended by Laura Tami, Secretary of the Women's District at the Mayor's Office of Bogotá; Giulio Quaggiotto, Innovation Specialist and former Head of Strategic Innovation at UNDP (United Nations Development Programme); Görsev Argin Uz, Director of Training and Projects at the Union of Municipalities of Marmara (Turkey); Oriel Sullivan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL and Co-Director of the Time Use Research Centre; Nicholas You, Executive Director of the Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation; and Ana Maria Tribin, Senior Economist at the Women, Business and Law Programme at the World Bank.

The group, in addition to participating in TUW events, has held bilateral meetings with representatives of public institutions and economic and social agents, and has seen first-hand successful practices in Catalonia that show the effectiveness of these policies. Specifically, the group has visited the CIBA space in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, dedicated to resources for women, innovation and feminist economics, and the Canòdrom in Barcelona, ​​a space for open technologies, participatory democracy and digital culture.

TUW 2025 has been co-organized by the Government of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council, the Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona, ​​the Barcelona Provincial Council and the Time Use Initiative, with the collaboration of Catalonia International and Time4All.