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CTF Alumni Meeting: Reflections and Future Visions for Social Circus
Circus TransFormation in Action, CTF, is a social circus training program run by Caravan International Youth and Social Circus Network. After seven cycles of the training, Caravan and Sorin Sirkus gathered CTF alumni together for two days. In the Alumni Meeting,...
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
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
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...
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Caravan Circus
👂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
🍾 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
The Circus Transformation in Action (CTF) program brings together circus professionals from across Europe and immerses them in social circus contexts — encouraging them to question some of the assumptions and certainties shaped by their previous training.
📋 Across 4 modules in a year long, each led by two different trainers, participants learn how to design an educational journey that responds to the specific group they are working with 🤝
To do this, they explore several dimensions of learning:
🧠 The cognitive level — understanding concepts, knowledge, and reasoning.
💙 The emotional level — building confidence, perseverance, and a willingness to challenge oneself.
❤️ The social level — developing communication, collaboration, and interaction within the group.
🤹 The technical level — strengthening physical, artistic, and psychomotor skills.
These dimensions do not exist separately. They must work together, supported by creativity, to create a coherent educational approach that responds to the needs of each group 💡✨
🤝This is what makes social circus so powerful: it can transform the experience of the people taking part, while also transforming the circus professionals who choose to work in this field 🎪
And the participants from CTF 9 have a few reflections to share about their experience.
Let’s hear from them! 💬
#caravanctf #socialcircus #caravannetwork
Email info@caravancircusnetwork.eu
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