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All things are strange to us, only time is ours.

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TIME LABORATORY
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-Administration and oficial Institutions 
-Foundations, asociations and other institutions 
-International Experiments 
-Projects 
-Administration and oficial Institutions
 UK. Governement. Department of Trade and Industry. Work and families
Legislative measures that the governement of United Kingdom has taken to balance and harmonise work and family life.
 Mobility in the city at night
In a dozen European cities, the Institute for the City in Movement proposes that local agents explore the urban night and observe it from the point of view of artists, urban planners, decorators, social agents, and that bridges be established between mobility and culture.
 Madrid a city for harmonising
The official website of the Instituto de la Mujer. This is an autonomous body that reports to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, through the General Office of Policies for Equality.
 Lange Nacht der Museen
The long night of museums is an initiative that will be held for the 18th time on the 28th January. Museums open from 6pm until 2am with different cultural, artistic and musical activities in over 80 museums and art galleries.
 La notte bianca
Rome is bedcoming an open city, a setting for activities everywhere from the centre of town to the outskirts, with a night to show all of its artistica and cultural wealth.
 Generalitat de Catalunya
The website of the Diputació of Barcelona
 Gateway to the European Union
 Diputació de Barcelona
The website of the Barcelona Provincial Council
 Consell Econňmic i Social de Barcelona
The Economic and Social Council of Barcelona is a consulting body through which economic and social agents and the representatives of civil society participate in decision-making regarding social and economic policies that affect the city and the people who live and work there.
 Ajuntament de Barcelona. (Barcelona City Council)
-Foundations, asociations and other institutions
 Open until dawn
Is a proposal for the youth of Gijon, which aims to offer an alternative to commercial entertainment, providing space for relationship and fun. Among other things, it offers the possibility for young people to enjoy municipal facilities in the evenings.
 National Commission for the Rationalising of Spanish Timetables and their Standardisation with EU Countries
 Maresme. Balancing work and personal life
This is a project for making companies in the maresme aware of the issue, and in a second phase, "balancing work and personal life" plans to undertake a pilot project to detect the needs of companies with special difficulties in implementing measures for balancing these aspects.
 Local Innovation. Diputació de Barcelona
File of working group's finished activities seeking to implement policies supporting families.
 Institut de la Infancia i el món urba
Institut of Childhood and urban area
 Institut catalŕ de les Dones
As well as designign and evaluating policies concerning women, it also promotes and supports the initiatives of women's associations and organisations.
 Fundació Maria Aurčlia Capmany
The Maria Aurčlia Capmany Foundation was created for the purpose of deepening and guaranteeing real equality amogn people and for supporting cultural change regarding women and men's participation in public and private activities, their evaluation and their distribution.
 Fundació Jaume Bofill
The Jaume Bofill Foundation promotes initiatives that facilitate knowledfe of our society and that promote realisations that contribute to improving the world through the suppression of all sort of inequalities existing among people.
 European industrial relations observatory
The European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) is a monitoring instrument offering news and analysis on European industrial relations. Its aim is to collect, analyse and disseminate high-quality and up-to-date information on key developments in industrial relations in Europe.
 European Foundation for the Improvemnet of Living and Working Conditions (2001)
Working Time Preferences at Different Phases of Life
 European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, is a European Union body, one of the first to be established to work in specialised areas of EU policy. Specifically, it was set up by the European Council to contribute to the planning and design of better living and working conditions in Europe.
 Consorzio Tempi della Cittŕ. Comune di Roma
This organistion promotes research and diffusion in the field of urban time policies and time and mobility policies in the city of Cremona
 Cittáslow
An association of cities with fewer than 50,00 inhabitants, in an effort to resist the vertiginous accelaration of the rhythm of modern life and its consequences.
-International Experiments
 Zeit & Mensch. Institut für Zeitwirtschaft und Zeitökologie
An organisation dedicated to study and research on time and its usage
 Time Banks UK
It seeks to improve joins people locally to help them share their time and their abilities. Everyone's time is of equal value: an hour of your time gives yuou a time credit to be spent when you need it.
 Tic tac le temps ŕ la carte. Bureau des temps de la ville de Rennes.
Tic tac le temps ŕ la carte is an innovative service, created by the time Bureau in the city of Rennes, currently in progress. It will facilitate consulting the time tables of 14000 organisations with their different horus of opening to the public, all gathered in the guidebook "living in Rennes".
 Tempi della Cittŕ. Cittŕ de Bolzano
It seeks to improve citizens' lives through intervening in the city's time and timetables, as well as thorugh presenting experiments in balancing work and family time.
 Quebec gouv. Dep. Famille, Aînes et Conditions feminine
This website allows us to see the strategic plans for balancing work and family life that are being carried out in Quebec, Canada
 Proposals to favour balancing time from the business area
The CEIM (Business Confederation of Madrid) reflects on the balancing of the time and the role played by companies.
 Optimiza. Solutions for balncin Personal, Family and Work Life
Optimiza's main objective is to help companies, institutions, and public administrations to define, design and implement policies for balancing time from a strategic, management perspective.
 La Maison du temps et de la mobilité
Like other "Time Offices" in Europe,m this project has arisen from the recognition of deteriotion in the quality of everyday life that is tied to a boom in territories, the time invollved in mobility, and the failure of organisations to adapt to the new rythms of people's lives.
 Institut des Villes
The Institut des Villes is a place where debate and exchange are generated, and where proposals are made regarding the essential issues in the development of cities. It also organises working groups on different urban subjects, with that time in the city standing out.
 INQA Inciative Neue Qualität der Arbeit
The website of the INQA (Initiatives for a New Quality in Work), which is researching providing companies with guidelines regarding balancing work and family life. It also publishes a list of good practices that are carried out in different German companies.
 Forschungstelle Zeitpolitik (TIME-LAB) in Hamburg
A website on research into time policies by the Faculty of Economy and Social Sciences, led by Ulrich Mückenberger
 Espace des temps. Mieux concilier les rythmes de vie á l'échelle d'un territoire
How to articulate the rhythm of life in Neuville-Sur-Saône: family, social, professional, civic and personal life... with the rhythm of the area.
 Cornell Careers Institute, Employment and Family.
Founded in 1997 as the first centre for the study of families in which both parents work, it analyses the perspective of gender, among other factors.
-Projects
 Tempora. All times at one time
This project seeks to define, design, and elaborate a model for balancing work and family life, by way of the articulation odf work , personal and family time and space as an element necessary for the creation , improvement, and consolidation of the occupation of people with family responsibilities, especially women.
 Concilia Plan of the National Government
Concilia is the overall plan for balancing personal and work life in this country's government as a whole.
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