We are proud proud to be part of an international project involving six European countries, aimed at supporting people of all abilities through innovative circus-based solutions. Our goal is to strengthen social inclusion and promote essential life skills through the transformative power of circus arts.
Focused on Growth and Sharing Knowledge
Expertise meets experience:
We’re committed to spreading inclusive practices by sharing our know-how across diverse fields — from therapeutic methods to developing digital learning materials.
Empowering development:
We design creative and interactive tools, including therapeutic resources and skill-building techniques, that support both personal and community growth.
Our mission is to help circus become more than just entertainment — it’s a powerful tool for personal development and social integration.
functionAl circus network
Diversability Project
Impact and Vision:
Circus pedagogy is a unique blend of art and physical activity, and it provides a platform for creative expression, teamwork, and personal development. The DiversAbility Circus project seeks to reshape the way we think about inclusion in these fields by demonstrating that everyone, regardless of their physical or mental abilities, has the right to learn and participate. By making circus arts more accessible and inclusive, we aim to empower disabled youngsters and build a more inclusive society.
Project Objectives:
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Empowering Educators: We want to provide educators with innovative tools, training, and resources to help them adapt circus activities for disabled youngsters, improving their ability to foster inclusivity and diversity.
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Engaging Youngsters with Disabilities: Through circus activities, we want to offer disabled participants the opportunity to grow physically, socially, and emotionally, building their confidence and helping them develop vital life skills.
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Fostering Inclusion: By creating flexible and adaptive approaches, we want to open new avenues of participation in circus pedagogy for disabled individuals, showing that these creative activities can be for everyone, regardless of ability.
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Innovating Circus Pedagogy: Our project contributes to the growth and innovation of circus pedagogy across Europe, developing new methods that promote inclusion at both local and international levels.
Functional Juggling Project _ 2021-2023
Presented in collaboration between Hungarian Juggling Association, Odskocznia Studio, Circo Tascabile, Quat Props Italia and supported by Erasmus+ funding under the main coordination of Kulturbühne Neustadt e.V.
Functional juggling is a powerful method which allows the experience of juggling for everyone. That’s why not only jugglers are into the method but also rehabilitation therapists, physical education teachers.
Technique of juggling is not the aim itself, the most important is to improve capacity
Method was invented by @craigquat. Thank you, Craig! We love you!
During the project we have realized:
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2 international trainings_ 5days training in Halle and in Warsaw
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2 international Functional Juggling Convention in Budapest and in Pontassieve
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trainings in national language in each country
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International Symposium
Circus Act 2022-2023
What makes social circus unique is the non-competitive setting it provides, the constant learning of new skills and the intersection of physical activity and the arts. Thus it is a great method to be integrated into youth work and to be used while we menthor youth in transition to adulthood.
Circus also allows youth to test boundaries in an appropriate and safe environment. Just like the road to maturity is full of trial and error, circus requires young people to persist through a series of failures until they inevitably succeed. Thus, the integration of this unique set of skills learned through developmental circus arts programs is disposed to equip youth with the resilience they need to be successful adults. (CBLI report: The benefits of social circus) Finally, social circus can be a powerful tool for promoting positive and meaningful interactions between individuals who are prone to social isolation, such as youth at-risk.
This project creates a learning platform for youth workers and other interested professionals to self-learn about the methods of social circus.
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Page: //circusact.eu/
3C Circus Competencies Catalog
European response to national needs in Circus Formation
The objective of the project is to deliver written resource and accredited trainings of Circus Pedagogy so its methods can be integrated into the work of Education, Health and Social sector.
We will develop HANDBOOKS and COURSES reflecting on the common European and worldwide needs of these sectors as specialized ones to our national circumstances. We will make a COLLECTION OF VOCATIONAL ARTICLES and scientific studies, which support the evidence based teaching, so it proves why and on what way circus is an effective way to develop wide range of skills starting from basic competencies to higher level of fine motor control and nerve stimulation.
It is an important objective of the project to get official recognition of these methods, so we also aim to accreditate our courses. Also very important objective of this project to adapt certain products to national circumstances and deliver them in NATIONAL LANGUAGE, so to serve the national needs and fill in a huge gap we faced, that often the therapists, teachers, conductors, sport instructors do not speak English, so they are not able to understand the English handbooks and articles, thus it would be seriously needed to their development.
As a result of this project, the products we develop and disseminate until 2021 August:
Book of functional juggling based on Craig Quat’s methods (English language, digital format)
Collection of articles and scientific evidences (English language, digital format, partial national translations)
Circus pedagogy handbook (Czech language, digital format)
Course ’Introduction to circus pedagogy for social circus workers’ (accreditation in Czech Rp.)
Manual of specialized vocational training in (social) circus (Hungarian language, digital format)
Adapted introductory course for social circus pedagogy (accreditation in Hungary)
Functional juggling training (accreditation in Italy)
Book on cross-over of circus with traditional gymnastic theory (English and Italian language, digital format).
Circus pedagogy and its use in formal, informal education and healthcare is growing very fast in the last 10-15 years, as it is revealed how relevant improvement can be reached by using these colourful, and exciting tools to enhance connections in the brain, stimulate nerve system, and develop learning skills, social skills and also in the quality of the movement by bringing to a higher level the gross and fine motor skills. (Research of Oxford University)
In the partner countries ’social circus’ – which means to use circus pedagogy in social context with marginalized groups and disadvantaged groups or with low function population- has already a history of 15-20 years. Each of the partners are active on this field, doing the same – if we look at it from outside - but doing it on different ways if we look it closer. We provide circus courses and teach wide range of groups, we cooperate in Europe and we are part of the circus teachers community where we share and exchange good practices. Lately we have started to build programs to provide teacher’s training, and specialized vocational trainings, of which consolidation is in the focus of this project.
We are pioneers in some areas and definitely are pioneers in our countries. Each partner has their own speciality which brings relevant aspects to this project. This makes us complimentary to each other and able to complete our mission to create the handbooks and courses. We need each other to discuss the topics, reflect on each other's doubts and share the best methods and experience which will be realized in the form of peer viewing, joint staff trainings and common tests and feedback sessions.
The core content of each product is based on the same knowledge, so we can support each other to develop and test the specific products. However in each country there is a different request and need emerging so the products has to be adapted properly and be different to be reflect to national needs. So we actually use the international strength and knowledge to produce common European knowledge and also to create adapted national products.
The TARGET GROUPS of this work are then the circus educators, professionals of health, social and educational sector. We have started to work with these institutions about 10 years ago and each of the partners has experience working with their patients and students. Being successful on this area now we can not serve the whole grown industry, we have to be able to train the instructors and teachers, so our main and primarily target group now the teachers in both formal and informal education as working with high function population or with low-function/special need clients.
Educircation
Educircation is the most significant of our international networks and cooperations, which unites 7 countries.
Educircation provided high quality trainings to professionals working in the field of social, youth and community circus. The aim was to improve the quality of circus teaching, and the cooperation of social work in relation to contemporary circus around Europe. Our trainers were provided with lifelong development opportunities and intensive training through networked training. During this project for teachers of circus techniques 7 workshops, 14 joint staff trainings and 2 organizational partner meetings were held for professional circus teachers and artists in order to share skills, information and experience among the network and beyond. The Network is supported by Erasmus+, The EU programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport.
Publications, conclusion documents and more about this project on the website:
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