EYCO aims to improve the recognition, structure, quality and promotion of youth circus, by its nature a popular and accessible art form, as a means for children and young people to take an active role in society and to engage in social citizenship. EYCO exists to serve as a forum and seeding ground for European cooperation between National Youth Circus Networks and works in collaboration with a variety of partners to stimulate, promote and support, on a national and European level, the process of recognising and structuring youth circus.To be at the epicentre of Youth Circus in Europe providing information, guidance and the expertise to empower all European countries to establish national youth circus umbrellas, increasing the quality and sustainability of the European Youth Circus Sector, and to contribute to the recognition that the circus arts can provide the means to change lives.

• BAG Zirkuspädagogik  (Germany): www.bag-zirkus.de
• Circomundo (Netherlands): www.circomundo.nl
• Circuscentrum (Belgium, Flemish part): www.circuscentrum.be
• Circus Works (Great Britain): www.circusworks.org
• DBUC (Denmark): www.dbuc.dk
• Eesti Kaasaegse Tsirkuse Arenduskeskus (Estonia): tsirkusekeskus.ee/
• F.E.E.C.S.E. (Spain): plataformaescuelasdecirco.wordpress.com
• Fédération Française des Ecoles de cirque (France): www.ffec.asso.fr
• Fédération Suisse des Ecoles de Cirque (Switserland): www.fsec.ch
• Finnish Youth Circus Association (Finland): www.snsl.fi
• Foundation Miasto Projekt (Poland): www.carnival.com.pl
• Giocolieri e Dintorni (Italy): www.jugglingmagazine.it
• Österreichischer BundesVerband für Zirkuspädagogik – ÖBVZ (Austria): www.zirkusnetzwerk.at

EYCO is the European umbrella of the national youth circus organization in European countries