Doughnut Economy, apart from the environmental and social care, addresses as well the need for a paradigm that would help to operate within the social and climate boundaries. It calls for the shift from the ¨business as usual¨ and addressing economical activity from another fresh perspective that truly, without green washing, takes the climate urgency into account. In order to do this, the approach is also concerned with the use of technology and digitalisation and urges a just, democratic and critical approach. Therefore, via this project partners made this innovative and internationally acclaimed economic theory better known and adapted to the Third Sector entities and informal and non-formal youth work and education. The main objectives were: 1. To increase 30 youth workers’ competences by an exchange of best practices in regard to sustainable entrepreneurship, technology and climate action according to Doughnut Economy theory. 2. To create a set of theoretical and practical youth work materials on sustainable entrepreneurship, technology and climate action according to Doughnut Economy theory in the non-formal education sector. 3. To increase communities awareness of sustainable entrepreneurship, technology and climate action.
It is proved that climate change is very multilateral, involving social and economic realms and bringing life quality deterioration. "We are facing an unprecedented crisis and it will take huge efforts to reverse the changes that the planet is undergoing right now" (United Nations, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021). The Doughnut Economy is a new vision where economic activities are linked to a society that depends on the environment for its survival. And it does so with a new integrated system of socio-economic and environmental indicators that helps to recognize where a society is and where it should be heading in the future. As Kate Raworth, Oxford’s economist and the Doughnut Economy author and promoter, says, "A healthy economy must be designed so that everyone can prosper, not grow without end". Her model is explained through a doughnut-shaped diagram, hence its name. The Doughnut economy can be applied on a global, national and local level. European cities Amsterdam and Barcelona in our project partners' countries are starting to implement it. With this project partners translated the Doughnut economy into youth work and Third Sector entities level having observed the need for the promotion of this concept.