​​​Join us for a two-day immersion into the Doughnut!

​Doughnut? Yes! Welcome to an introductory course on a sustainability framework that is more accessible, comprehensive, and practical: the Doughnut* of social and planetary boundaries. During the course, we will closely examine practical ways to approach sustainability, integrating tools and methods based on the Doughnut. Social innovation plays a crucial role in delivering the Sustainable Development Agenda. Thus, we will train socially innovative mindsets by envisioning the future of our campuses as innovation districts.

​View video recordings here: https://doughnuteconomics.org/stories/recordings-gdd-2025-at-riga-technical-university

​WHY SHOULD I ATTEND? 

​✅ Learn from international speakers who already apply the Doughnut model and tools in their teaching, decision-making, and sustainability benchmarking. 

​✅ Meet other like-minded people from your community & practice a sustainable innovation mindset together. 

​✅ Receive a free RTU-approved certificate of attendance, indicating 10 academic hours of training.  

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​WHY SHOULD I CARE? 

​➡️ Sustainability is not a trend; it’s an emerging foundational norm. 

​➡️ Sustainability is complex and multilayered, which can make it hard to understand and communicate. 

​➡️ “Sustainability” can be abstract, which can make it impractical and distant. 

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​HOW DOES THIS COURSE ADDRESS IT? 

​☑️ The Doughnut model offers a comprehensive overview, a compass for the 21st-century mindset. 

​☑️ The Doughnut Economics Action Lab provides a wide range of practical tools for various sectors and a global network of practitioners. 

​☑️ Social innovation leads the solutions for the sustainability challenges we aim to tackle. 

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​PROGRAM 

​All times indicated are in EEST (Eastern European Summer Time) 

​October 15 | Focus: the Doughnut

​10-11:30 ✏️ Sustainability: Introduction to the Doughnut Model & Riga City Sustainability Portrait, Based on the Doughnut 🗣️ Liene Sebre | Zaļā Brīvība (Latvia), CEE Bankwatch Network 

​13-14 ✏️ Governance & Strategy: Doughnut as a Decision-making Compass: Step-by-step 🗣️ Maël Jambou | Sustainability Officer, University of Technology of Troyes (France) 

​15-16:30 ✏️ Education: Integrating Doughnut in Higher Education & Mobilising Student-led Campaigns 🗣️Jemma Luck | Climate Campaigns Lead, Rethinking Economics (global) // Jacob Rask | Lecturer, Roskilde University (Denmark) 

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​October 16 | Focus: Social Innovations

​10-12 ✏️ Innovations: Why We Need It & How to Evaluate Social in Innovation 🗣️ Anete Urka | Social Innovation Competence Centre (Latvia)

​14-16 ✏️ Solutions: Campus as an Innovation District: Designing Future Scenarios into the Doughnut 🗣️ Paula Cukura | Project Manager, Riga Technical University (Latvia) // Andra Marta Babre | Researcher, Riga Technical University (Latvia)

​19+ 🍭 Happy Hours: Informal networking with like-minded people 📍 TBA

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​HOW TO APPLY & RECEIVE CERTIFICATION 

​To receive a certificate of attendance for 10 academic hours, participants must attend the full program, actively take part in Zoom surveys and session discussions, and complete the feedback survey.

​Alternatively, participants may complete the training by watching the video recordings (available until October 30), submitting the feedback survey, and passing a short test. This option provides a certificate for 8 academic hours (final session excluded).

​Have you registered already? Do it here by October 13!

​More info: Paula Cukura, Project Lead, paula.cukura@rtu.lv 

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​About Global Donut Days: https://doughnuteconomics.org/gdd2025

​*Doughnut model is based on the UN SDGs’ social goals and climate science. It was developed by a British economist, Kate Raworth, at Oxford. It is based on her groundbreaking book “Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist”. Inspired by this new compass for the 21st century, Doughnut Economics Action Lab – DEAL – has been growing as a global movement since 2020, offering applied research, counselling, grassroots initiatives, methodological development and breaking the silos between governments, businesses, academia and communities.  

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​🇪🇺 The event is organised as part of the RESIST – Regional Ecosystems for Social Innovation and Social Transformation – project. The RESIST project is co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) under the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme. More info: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/resist/