The Grundtvig programme funds small-scale, community-based activities. It focuses on the teaching and study needs of those in adult education and alternative education streams, as well as the institutions and organisations delivering these services. It is designed to develop basic skills and to enable learners to play a more active role in their communities. Supporting lifelong learning and mobility in this way also tackles Europe’s ageing population problem.

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Coordinator:
Hungarian Juggling Associaton (Hungary)

Associated partners:

• Circulum Berliner Einrad- und Jonglierverein e.V. (Germany)
• Associació Valenciana de Circ (Spain)

The project, entitled Research on the Methodology of Teaching Juggling: Development and Adaptation, is the transnational partnership of Hungary, Germany and Spain. The project mainly deals with pedagogical issues: its aim is to develop education towards European dimensions.

The participating institutions achieve at least 40 Mobilities in two years.

The objective is multiple:

• On one hand, we intend to create an accessible collection of methods - that adapts to the new educational environment - through an active learning partnership of jugglers. This new initiative revives education in the field of juggling and contributes to the popularisation of juggling in the wider lifelong learner community.
• On the other hand, in the future, the participating institutions will apply the methods by organising courses and workshops for professionals and non-professionals.

Juggling has a great potential in it: besides being a circus art, it is an alternative type of movement that develops coordination, body – and self-consciusness, maintains mental and physical health.

For collecting the methods, we will elaborate the individual experiences of jugglers: amateurs and professionals, sportsmen and artists. We will meet these people during the annual 3-day juggling conventions. Our plan is to organise Juggling Workshops that is a practical discussion where 20-50 jugglers can share their experiences. We place emphasis on teamwork since it serves the most the formation of learning partnerships.

The project carries the European values of development, collaboration, education, equality, tolerancy and freedom.

The Hungarian Juggling Association is a non-profit organisation since 2000. It unites amateur hobby jugglers and professional artists from all around the country. The association has numerous members and it also fills the requirements of several enquirers. Our main activities focus on the following: we offer practice place for our members and for all enquirers, our website (www.zsonglor.hu) serves as an informational basis and forum, and we organise an international convention every year.

Circulum is one of the biggest juggling clubs in Germany. Founded in 1998 by a few jugglers frustrated by the lack of traning opportunities in Berlin it now has about 100 active members. Though most members are jugglers, there is a significant group of uncyclists including several Uni-Hockey players. The Circulum jugglers are very active on the national and even international level and are frequently joined by visitors from all over the world coming to Berlin to meet like-minded people and discover the vibrant juggling scene.

The AVC was born in 2004 with the aim to develop new circus activities on the fields of diffusion, popularization, formation, investigation, ont he other hand to rapresent circus professionals. To fulfill these objectives they run the website www.espaidecirc.com to keep inform the members, a training space ’Espai de Circ ’ for creation work and performances beside the working groups.

The first Espai de Circ was opened in 2004 and closed in April of 2008 by the cause of building which has hosted it. ( Goya str. 5) In July 2009 was opened our new Espai de Circ in Alboraia, where we run formation activity, creation and perfomances of various circus disciplines.