The Brussels-based umbrella organisation Caravan (http://www.caravancircusnetwork.eu), which promotes youth and social circus schools, recently in a two-day workshop presented the results of a study (Circus+) carried out over more than two years under the auspices of Erasmus+. It was clearly shown that social circus schools can provide substantial help, for young people who have been side lined and left without opportunities for employment or education, to find themselves and find their way in a world which accepts them less and less.

—What is the Commission's attitude to social circus schools, and has it assessed in the past how their educational practices could be implanted in the individual educational systems?

—Does the Commission see a real opportunity for social circus school teachers to be recognised as official teachers, and for them to teach the knowledge and experience they have gained at university level too?