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Circus Arts for All

2025-3-ES02-KA153-YOU-0003873942025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: ES|IT|FR · Grant: €15,677
Inclusion of marginalised young peoplePromoting gender equalityPromoting LGBT+ equality

Objectives

Circus Arts for All aims to transform how youth workers across Europe use social circus as a tool for inclusion, equity, and empowerment. From the perspective of youth work practice, the project seeks to move beyond goodwill and improvisation toward structured, rights-based, and transferable methodologies that ensure every young person—regardless of functional diversity, gender identity, migration background, or geographic isolation—can fully participate in and benefit from circus-based non-formal education. The project is built on three concrete objectives: Strengthen professional competences in inclusive facilitation through experiential learning. Participants will acquire practical skills in adaptive pedagogy—such as role diversification (e.g., stage manager, sound designer), sensory-friendly adaptations, and gender-sensitive communication—grounded in proven frameworks like AFCA’s Cirque Adapté, FEECSE’s Functional Juggling, and La Fenice’s trauma-informed clowning. Co-create a transnational Professional Competence Framework for Inclusive Circus Trainers, defining what it means to be an inclusive youth worker in today’s Europe. This living document—developed collectively by 17 practitioners from Spain, France, and Italy—will serve as a reference for training, hiring, and policy advocacy, helping to professionalise social circus as a legitimate youth work methodology. Anchor European collaboration in local reality by co-designing and delivering a public “Circus Arts for All” event with Gran Canarian youth facing exclusion (e.g., those with ASD, migrants, or under judicial protection). This ensures that learning is not theoretical, but tested in authentic community contexts—turning inclusion into visible, joyful, and reciprocal action. By achieving these objectives, the project empowers youth workers to design circus sessions where accessibility is structural, not optional, and where diversity becomes the source—not the obstacle—of creativity, dignity, and collective joy.

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