Check out our 2025 Digital Annual Report

Made using Genially

OUR Current PROJECTS

What About Youth ? (W.A.Y)

What About Youth ? (W.A.Y)

For many years Caravan has been talking about having youth leadership and empowerment at the head of our strategy. Thanks to the development of the ‘Youth Advisory Group’ in 2021, we were able to make that dream a reality, and implement a strong youth lead approach...

Circus Transformation Advanced

Circus Transformation Advanced

To read the final report, with all of the findings from the CTF Advanced project, click the photo below!CTF Advanced is a 2.5 year project led by Sorin Sirkus with the objectives to: form a network (both local and European) of youth circuses, social circus trainers,...

European Solidarity Corps

European Solidarity Corps

Caravan has a network of exchange for volunteers within Europe, to support the mobility of young people in circus. By getting involved in the real-life activities of our youth and social circus schools, young people are able to boost their competencies, increase their...

Caravan Week

Program MON 3.11 Resilience in the face of emigration as a response to a threatening contextDiana MubarakshinaUpsala CircusZeits, Germany (Formerly St-Petersburg, Russia)↗Website   TUE 4.11 Applying YSC values to broader local communities as an act of resilience...

Instagram FEED

2 years ago
2 years ago
2 years ago
2 years ago
2 years ago
2 years ago

FACEBOOK FEED

Caravan Circus

Caravan is an international Youth and Social Circus network that consists of 36 circus schools from across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and America, and advocates for the positive impact of youth and social circus. The network was established in 2008 by 7 European circus schools with a common goal to use social circus as an educational tool and to dedicate this work to groups from disadvantaged backgrounds with specific needs.
Caravan Circus
Caravan Circus3 hours ago
🎪🎙️ Meet the speakers of Caravan Week 2026! 🌍✨

We’re excited to reveal the inspiring guests who will explore this year’s theme: “Learning & Listening.” 👂💡

Through five interviews, we’ll hear from 10 voices within the Caravan Circus Network and its wider community. Together, they’ll share their experiences, research, and perspectives on how circus organisations can listen, learn, and help shape the future of youth circus and social circus.

The conversations will explore how circus organisations work, how they learn from their communities, and how they can inspire young people to become active contributors to the future of the sector 🌱🎪

We’re delighted to welcome:
Léana Valentini — @Lido Toulouse
Guille Vidal-Ribas — @Ateneu Popular 9 Barris
Jess Martin — @Ateneu Popular 9 Barris
Adam Jarchovský — @CIRQUEON
Antonio Alcántara — @Facultat d'Educació UB
Petra Malin — @TAMK - Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Barbora Adolfová — @CIRQUEON
Molly O’Brien — @Cloughjordan Circus Club
Míša Zadražilová — @CIRQUEON
Pia Povsic — @Fuskabo

💬 Across these five conversations, the second edition of Caravan Week invites us to pause, listen, and ask the questions that can help create a more inclusive, creative, and responsible circus sector 🤹

🔊We’ll be sharing the first excerpts next week!
Follow us so you don’t miss them 👀🎧

#CaravanWeek26 #LearningAndListening #YouthCircus #SocialCircus #CaravanNetwork
Caravan Circus
Caravan Circus1 week ago
🗓️🎪 Caravan Week 2026 is coming soon! 🎙️✨

👂This year, our Caravan podcast series takes Listening & Learning as its guiding theme, bringing together youth and social circus leaders from across Europe and beyond 🌍

Across five conversations, we’ll open the door to different realities and perspectives from the field — exploring:
👧 What do young people really want?
🤹 Can everyone join the circus?
🧩 What if teaching became a playground?
🤝 Can circus help build democracy?
🧬 What can research change?

💡Together, these episodes will highlight lived experience, practical knowledge, and ideas that matter to the wider youth and social circus community.

📣For Caravan, the series is also an opportunity to create space for dialogue across generations, disciplines, and borders — while amplifying voices that deserve to be heard more widely across the sector and by the institutions that support it.

During Caravan Week 2026, we’ll listen, learn, and share perspectives that can help shape a more inclusive, reflective, and connected future for social circus 💛

👀 Speaker announcements are coming very soon — stay tuned!
Which conversation are you most curious to hear? 💬

#caravanweek2026 #youthandsocialcircus #listeningandlearning #caravancircusnetwork
Caravan Circus
Caravan Circus2 months ago
✨ CTF strengthens social circus 🎪

🍾 As we celebrate the completion of Circus Transformation in Action 9, we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Erasmus+ Youth Accreditation and the @Erasmus+ Finland, Sweden, and Ireland for supporting and funding the program’s four international training modules 💪

Through Youth Accreditation, young people and youth workers have opportunities to travel, learn, and develop professionally in different cultural contexts across Europe. CTF 9 is a powerful example of how international mobility can strengthen individuals — as well as the organizations and communities they return to 🌍

Across the four modules, participants:
🫶 Deepened their sense of belonging to the social circus sector.
🌐 Developed international professional networks.
🛠️ Gained new skills and perspectives to support their work as circus trainers.
💁‍♂️ Shared knowledge and experiences across cultural and national borders.

The impact of this learning will extend far beyond the CTF program. The young people and marginalized communities that participants work with locally will benefit from their strengthened skills and confidence through more inclusive, creative, and high-quality circus experiences🌟

🙏❤️ We are deeply grateful to Erasmus+ and the National agncies for investing in learning through mobility, international exchange, and youth work — helping to strengthen the social circus sector across Europe.

Thank you for making these opportunities possible! 🎪

#ErasmusPlus #YouthAccreditation #SocialCircus #CTF9 #CaravanNetwork
Caravan Circus

Email info@caravancircusnetwork.eu
Phone +32 (0)4 92 12 71 71

 

Rue Picard 3.
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium