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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...

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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.
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🎪✨ What makes up the expertise developed through CTF?

🧰 The Circus Transformation in Action (CTF) program develops no fewer than 27 competencies across four modules delivered over one year.

These competencies are organized into four key areas:
🌍 Social Context
🧑‍🏫 The Act of Teaching
🧭 Steering Teaching
🧩 Circus Techniques and Creativity

Together, they form a specialized body of knowledge and skills for professional circus practitioners who want to use circus techniques with people who have fewer opportunities, specific needs, or diverse social and cultural backgrounds

🤝 That is why CTF works with experienced trainers who carefully design their modules to support meaningful learning and help participants develop their practice.

🙌 During the latest edition, we were fortunate to benefit from the involvement of six wonderful trainers: Ilaria Bessone, Steven Desanghere, @Tommaso Negri, Raphaël Beretti, Lukáš Houdek, and Katka Klusáková 🙏

🎓 Each trainer brought a different perspective on social circus practice, offering participants new ways to understand, experience, and imagine the field. As a result, they completed the program with a broader and richer range of skills — giving them an even stronger foundation for their own teaching and educational work 🎨

👀 And what do the trainers themselves think about this experience?

Let’s hear from them! 💬

#CaravanCTF #SocialCircus #CaravanNetwork
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Caravan Circus7 days ago
🎪 What does CTF actually put into action? 💪

⏭️ For nearly 10 editions, the Circus Transformation in Action (CTF) program has been training professional circus artists — most already active in teaching — to adapt their practice to audiences outside the traditional circus world 👀

Over four modules across one year, participants learn how to work with social and youth audiences, designing inclusive, accessible, and meaningful circus experiences for all 🌍❤️

This project is offered free of charge to practitioners linked to Caravan Network members, who also send their own instructors. It is made possible thanks to our funding partners, who help us advance social circus learning through three of our four main pillars:

🎓 Expertise – strengthening the pedagogical, social, and reflective skills of participants
🤝 Community – connecting circus artists from across Europe so they can learn, exchange, and grow together
📢 Advocacy – empowering participants to become active voices for inclusion, participation, and social circus beyond their own schools and companies

Thanks to all these combined efforts, CTF has become a unique and essential learning space in Europe 🇪🇺

🙏 We warmly thank our partners and funders, whose support makes this individual and social transformation possible. And we have something special for you: in the coming days, we’ll share words and actions from the people at the heart of the program — the participants themselves 💬✨

#CaravanCTF #CaravanCircusNetwork #SocialCircus #YouthCircus
Caravan Circus
Caravan Circus2 weeks ago
“One for all, and all for one.” 🤝✨

Alexandre Dumas knew what he was talking about: moving forward in the world can sometimes feel difficult. It takes strength, time, and commitment to learn, grow, and push ourselves beyond our limits — and we all hope that this journey is not something we have to trace alone.

That is exactly why Circus Transformation in Action (CTF) was created 10 years ago 🎪

🌍 CTF helps professional circus artists meet, train together, and build a real community across Europe and beyond. More than a program, it is a space where people support one another, learn from each other, and grow together.

The program is also made possible thanks to the support of 16 circus organizations across Europe during the 2025–2026 cycle. We warmly thank them for their commitment, without which none of the 22 participants in the latest edition could have taken part 🙏

✨And the participants themselves say it best — once they complete this transformative journey, they leave with their own reflections, experiences, and voices to share.

That is what we’ll be highlighting here and now 💬

#caravanctf #caravancircus #socialcircus #youthcircus #circuseducation
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