Social Circus Advocacy is a project for social circus project managers. There is a need of skilled project managers in the social circus community in Europe to ensure smooth running of social circus projects and creation of new ones. There have been many European project supporting the development of social circus teaching but we don´t know of any that would focus on the project management of social circus projects themselves. By training project managers we can reach a higher number of succesful social circus projects happening all around Europe. The project offers trainings in following topics: digital communication, cooperation with institutions, fundraising, PR, marketing, documentation, evaluation and sustainability. Those are skills identified as most important and lacked in the organisational teams of participating organisations. These topics will be covered on four joint staff trainings of five days attended by 36 participants. Each training will be lead by an experienced leader in the specific area together with circus professionals to make sure it will contain all the scpecifics brought in social circus work. Every training will consist of theoretical part and a practical session where will the participants work on their own projects under supervision of the project leader. Participating project managers will be chosen by their motivation and the expected impact on their future work - we will always try to pick those that will benefit from the trainings the most. The training schedule will be adapted to the group of chosen participants to ensure they get the most of it. The direct project results will be improved project management skills of participants which will lead to higher level of project management of the partner organisations and in a bigger picture into more social circus projects delivered in high quality. This will impact thousands of clients of social circus projects as well as circus and social work professionals. Social circus is recognised in Europe as a tool of social, community and youth work that improves the physical and mental well being of its clients. Long term projects have bigger impact than random social circus activities. This project will teach the participants how to keep the projects running and make them sustainable for as long as possible. Continuation of our social circus projects will be an ongoing process of passing the know-how of Social Circus Advocacy project in future.
Social Circus Advocacy was a two-years-long project for social circus project managers. It started out of a need for skilled project managers in the social circus community in Europe to ensure the smooth running of social circus projects and creation of new ones. There have been many European projects supporting the development of social circus teaching but none that would focus on the project management of social circus projects themselves. By training project managers we raised a number of successful social circus projects happening all around Europe. The project offered trainings in the following topics: digital communication, cooperation with institutions, fundraising, PR, marketing and evaluation. Those were the skills identified as most important and lacked in the organisational teams of participating organisations. These topics were covered during four joint staff trainings of five days attended by 36 travelling participants + 8 extra participants from the hosting countries. Each training was lead by an experienced expert in the specific area together with circus professionals to make sure it would contain all the specific issues brought in social circus work. Every training consisted of a theoretical part and a practical tasks where the participants worked on their own projects under the supervision of the workshop leader. Participating project managers were chosen by their motivation and the expected impact on their future work, we were making public calls open to circus professionals in all four countries and we always tried to pick those that would benefit from the trainings the most. The training schedule was then adapted to the group of chosen participants to ensure they would get the most of it. The direct project results are improved project management skills of participants which do and will lead to a higher level of project management of the partner organisations and in a bigger picture into more social circus projects delivered in high quality. This will impact thousands of clients of social circus projects as well as circus and social work professionals. Social circus is recognised in Europe as a tool of social, community and youth work that improves the physical and mental well being of its clients. Long term projects have bigger impact than random social circus activities. This project was teaching the participants how to keep the projects running and make them sustainable for as long as possible. Continuation of our social circus projects and new projects to come will be an ongoing process of passing the know-how of Social Circus Advocacy project in future.