Time Use Week got under way with the general meeting by the Catalan Network for the Right to Time, along with the official inauguration, and will conclude on 20 October. Most activities are being held in the paranymph building at the Escola Industrial de Barcelona. As with other editions, the event becomes more decentralised on 19 and 20 October so that the entire local area can contribute with ideas and practices relating to the right to time, enabling the concept to be approached from more local realities too.

The event will be addressing the debate on public policies to implement a new public right on 17 October: the right to time, which looks to guarantee that everybody has time for themselves, to reduce time poverty and to improve well-being. This debate will be conducted as part of the general meeting by the Network of Local and Regional Governments for Time Policies.

Examples of these policies include the creation of local urban models which reduce travelling time, the construction of infrastructures and support services for care promotion of new models for organising working hours.

The future of working time and how public and private organisations approach this will be the main topic of debate on 18 October. A conceptual project on working time will be presented and discussed in sessions which aim to include the most important social and manufacturing stakeholders.

Time Use Week 2023 is jointly organised by the Government of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Provincial Council, Barcelona Metropolitan Area and the Time Use Initiative, with the participation of Diplocat and Time4All (a project jointly funded by the European Union).