European response to national needs in Circus Formation Erasmus Project

Project Title

European response to national needs in Circus Formation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

We create a collaboration with 3 European partners to respond to the very real needs of Circus Formations in our countries and to realize new products with a European importance. These products are in SERVICE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, and SOCIAL sector.

Although each partner is its own circus organisation, the relevance and the effects of the knowledge they encounter in the 5 HANDBOOKS/manuals and 3 COURSES, they jointly work to produce, goes far beyond our circle of circus professionals. Circus today is a part of both formal and informal education in Europe, it has emerged as a tool for social integration, and a way of therapy in the clinical settings. It creates new markets of millions of stakeholders, who will be the beneficiaries of this project: primarily the school teachers, circus teachers, instructors, social workers and therapists who use circus as a tool for cognitive and motor skill development, since these activities directly generate brain development through higher level connectivity. These teachers and professionals are our PRIMARY TARGET GROUPS. The SECONDARY TARGET GROUPS are the students themselves with a high-functioning profile or with special needs backgrounds.

The objective of the partnership is to provide resources and courses, which facilitate this KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER towards each target group. The English written resources will help this process at a EUROPEAN LEVEL. The national language resources will fill the EMERGING NEEDs of our target groups to have specific resources reflecting their unique objectives and in their own languages.

In order to fulfill this objective we will deliver a CORE GUIDE of circus pedagogy, a collection of results and scientific evidences as it relates to use of circus, the Book of functional and adaptive juggling, an adapted delivery into Czech and Hungarian, and also consolidation of the 3 COURSES for teachers with the aim of increasing transferable knowledge.
Another important issue is the RECOGNITION of circus pedagogy, as a relevant educational tool. In order to obtain this recognition we carry out the accreditation of our courses.
Experts of each partner group will work at different phases development, such as in brainstorming and structuring of knowledge. These collaborations create the foundation for experts to return to their regions and further develop each product. The team will continue to gather throughout the project for testing, supervising and giving feedback. A solid evaluation and monitoring system will support their work-progress. IT collaborative tools will be involved as an administrative support (Trello, Google Drive, appear.in, shared documents).

We emphasize proper dissemination of our results and its European cooperation, in sharing the knowledge we develop. Our continuous COMMUNICATION process will spread this informations in forms of direct mail, live streaming, small videos, and/or news publications on social media.
A series of 2 day long events called CIRCONFERENCE will be organised, in each country. During Circonference, there will be interactive opportunities for audiences to engage actively with the knowledge.

All products created are intended to be OPEN SOURCE, and will be presented, for free, on online. This aims to maximize the reach of our products to the widest possible audience, including those both within and outside existing target groups.

All of the intellectual outputs in this project will have HUGE IMPACTS on the primary target groups. By the multiplying effect the use of these methods will grow exponentially, over time. And, the creation of scientific evidenced based materials to better establish foundations of circus pedagogy, we will strengthen our emerging market and expand upon collaborative work opportunities within the sector.

Project Website

http://facebook.com/3Ccircus

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138132 Eur

Project Coordinator

MAGYAR ZSONGLOR EGYESULET & Country: HU

Project Partners

• CIRQUEON, o.p.s.
• A.S.D. Circo Tascabile