INCLUSIVE CIRCUS FROM IBERIA TO ITALY is a Strategic Association for Creativity in the fields of youth, education and training for two years. It is made up of three non-profit entities: Associação Portuguesa de Pais e Amigos do Cidadão Deficient Mental APPACDM of Setúbal (Portugal), Compagnia Elefanti of Naples (Italy) and the coordinators La Finestra Nou Circ of Valencia (Spain). The three are focused on social youth work from the performing arts and the Spanish, and Italian, they also focus on circus training. - Integration of young people at risk of exclusion. We work and watch over the non-discrimination of the youth. We defend equal rights and opportunities. We integrate participants of different profiles: young people at risk of social exclusion, young people with functional diversity, etc. - Adequate personal development of young people. We promote the right to education and educational attention, in terms of the full development of the personality and the acquisition of knowledge and skills that promote personal development, such as psychomotor skills, empathy, teamwork, self-esteem, projection artistic, commitment, persistence, self-confidence... - Artistic and cultural projection. We facilitate and channel the concerns and motivations of minors and provide ways to satisfy them. We promote the right to active culture, free time, leisure and sports. We facilitate access to artistic and cultural activities. - Promotion of participation and active citizenship. We enable spaces for coexistence where a variety of opinions, ideas, and beliefs are expressed and experiences are exchanged. Through our programs, we promote the development of healthy relationships between minors, with their families and with the environment, based on respect, listening and recognition. - Social awareness. We carry out an important work towards society in general on the various problems, promoting citizen co-responsibility. - Construction of professional and youth networks. Through this project the connection between the different participating entities, partner circus entities, youth and social entities, administrations and scenic spaces is fostered, generating networks between the entities that go beyond the project itself. The objectives of our project are the following: 1. Promote the Personal Development of Young People at risk of exclusion and Young People with Functional Diversity. 2. Develop the structures of the project partners, through networking, language training and the training of their teachers. 3. Design a program of common training activities and a homogeneous validation system, as well as a Guide to Good Practices and a collection of articles related to Circus applied to the social field. 4. Facilitate the transition between training and the labour market for young people at risk of social exclusion, through transnational training on crosscutting issues and the opportunity for first job experiences. 5. Make circus training visible, bringing it closer to the public and organizing meetings of circus training centres and entities focused on the Social and Youth field. To achieve these objectives we have planned the following activities: • 3 coordination meetings. • 1 weekly local workshop in each partner country, with two groups of young people. • 4 virtual meetings to exchange Good Practices. • 3 pedagogical workshops for professionals from the Youth and Circus. • 3 specific workshops for Young People at Risk of Social Exclusion and Functional Diversity. • 6 circus shows before the public, two in each partner country. • 6 workshops given by the young people themselves to the public, two in each partner country. The project will generate two documentary products: • Good Practice Guide for Circus Schools. • Collection of Articles about Circus Training. • Publication of website, social networks, press releases, etc. European mobility activities will focus on 3 national events, one in each partner's country. Framed in this national event, each of the organizations will develop the project activities and other activities of their own. The activities are 1 coordination meeting in Italy, 1 training workshop for trainers in Spain, and 1 specific circus workshop for young participants. The rest of the meetings and workshops are held locally in each partner country, with videoconferencing in the case of meetings. All the materials resulting from the project will be published and freely accessible in order to share the results with other schools and centres. The evaluation of the project will be continuous. The visibility actions that are proposed are multiple and through various channels.
The "INCLUSIVE CIRCUS FROM IBERIA TO ITALY" project is a program for the exchange of good practices, which has included training activities for professionals, training activities for young people, and youth mobility, among others, using the Social Circus for young people as its axis. of different groups at risk of exclusion. The objective of the project is to contribute to the integration, employability and the promotion of the Personal Development of these participants using the Circus as a tool rather than as an end. Through the Circus we contribute to the acquisition of knowledge, capacity development and adoption of attitudes that contribute to improving their integration, citizen participation, self-esteem, respect for diversity, etc... The three partners carry out Social Circus and performing arts activities in our respective countries, teaching, practicing and creating circus numbers with young people at risk of exclusion and with disabilities. The joint activities have been concentrated in 2022, despite the fact that the project started in 2021. We wanted to wait for a situation that is as safe as possible after the Covid pandemic, since health care is an important aspect to take into account. account in these groups.
The promoting group is made up of circus artists with sensitivity and experience in managing Social Circus projects in the field of groups at risk of exclusion. This team is joined by young artists and fans of the Circus in Naples, with the same concerns and experiences in the Performing Arts as a work tool for Personal Development in groups at risk of social exclusion. And the APPACDM association of Setúbal joins, an entity that works for the rights of people with intellectual disabilities. After several years carrying out youth exchanges, the three partners have wanted to go further in the execution of a European project of collaboration, networking and exchange of good practices around the circus applied to the social sector, through interventions in groups and collectives. vulnerable, as a Personal Development tool. We wanted to accommodate the challenges that professionals face on a daily basis when working with these groups, and face social work from a playful perspective, integrating the circus as a socio-educational tool.