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                            Circus For Europe - Cirque pour l'Europe
                            
                            
                            
                                    
                                                                                                                        Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
                                        
                                                                                                                            End date: Oct 31, 2015
                                        
                                    
                                                                            
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                         Located in the south subburban of Paris (Bagneux-Hauts de Seine), in the hart of a disadvantaged area, le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde  (PPCM) is center of arts of circus and emerging cultures with pedagogical ans social aims : conmpagning young emerging artists, weekly lessons, workshops, outside camps in partnership with social structures, working with schools, kindergardens and leisure centers, youth houses, people with special needs, prevention clubs, jails...
Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde is a founding member of the NICE network (Network for International Circus Exchange) and CARAVAN (european netwoth for circos schools with social and pedagogical aims). We devellop european and international projects : youth exchanges including artistic practice, trainings for trainers, seminars and study visits to improve ours practices;
Sending and hosting european volonteers is in the hart of our european practices. We privilege long term EVS and are able to host to personns a year. Our programm aims to use artisitc practices (mainly circus and emerging cultures) in youth education and intercultural dialogue, regarding social inclusion. We promote learning by doing, sharing and exchanging competences between personns.
Our commitment towards EVS has four objectives:
- Improve methods and qualities of our work with young people ;
- Enrich the educational and social dimension of artistic practice through European exchanges and intercultural dialogue;
- Establish a strong link between our territory situation and intercultural practices to promote European citizenship and cultural diversity;
- Develop new opportunities for collaboration and exchange between structures and associations of our local community 
Also, our project "Circus for Europe", putting artistic practices for intercultural dialogue, sociocultural opening of our territories and social cohesion, provides a rich experience for intercultural cooperation, the fight against cultural exclusion and the realization of a Europe without borders. The young people involved are discovering that circus arts carry values based on the lack of academic, social and cultural prerequisites, the openness to contributions from different cultures, the respect of the partner.