European Federation of Healthcare Clown Organizations

14/03/2026

What people think clowns do on a clownference vs what we actually do

13/03/2026

While celebrating 15 years with some of the founders and a very big part of the health care community we used the opportunity to to hand over a golden nose and a certificate to two of the founders and honoring them as ambassadors of efhco.

12/03/2026

15 years! 🎉
Come and celebrate with us at the HCIM 2026 coffee break at 14.45. Meet some of the founders and chat with the board.

The groundbreaking work of our federation started in Mars 2011. We have grown from 8 professional health care organizations to 21. 🥳

10/03/2026

The Efhco board meeting in Lausanne. We are part of shaping the structure of efhco, finding ways to involve members, plenty of inspiration, strategy - and lot’s of fun!

10/03/2026

Healthcare Clowning International Meeting 2026

Don’t miss our roundtable discussion on Thursday 12 March / starting 01.45 pm at the HCIM in .

We are stronger together! National umbrella federations of professional organisations around the globe join forces, meet and connect sharing knowledge, discussing future collaboration, uniting their voices that drives real progress in the countries and in their member organisations we serve. 🔴

06/02/2026

🔴 📆 - March 11-13 - in ,
⏰ Only 5 weeks to go until our international community comes together again in the Healthcare Clowning International Meeting. Energy is rising, ideas are growing, and new cross border connections are taking shape.

Let’s carry that energy forward and arrive not just prepared, but inspired by our Healthcare Clowning International Meeting 🙃 🔴

EFHCO is proud to support the international program created by this year's host Theodora Foundation .
Get ready to meet our amazing Scholarship Buddies in Lausanne- more coming soon! 🫶 🔴

27/01/2026

Well worth celebrating! The founders of efhco have done significant work for the entire health care clown community

06/11/2025

Don’t miss this brilliant opportunity!

The Theodora Foundation is sponsoring HCIM 2026 Scholarships for artists, cultural managers, and back-office team members from healthcare clowning organisations.

These scholarships are designed to support practitioners from organisations with limited financial resources, giving you the chance to attend the HCIM 2026 - Healthcare Clowning International Meeting in Lausanne, share experiences, and learn from leaders in the field.

🗓️ Application deadline: 15 November 2025
📌 Learn more and apply: https://www.hcim2026.org/scholarship/

🎟️ Get your HCIM 2026 conference tickets: https://www.hcim2026.org/registration/

Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, connect, and be inspired! 🫧🩺

30/05/2019

Bonjour from Brussels, dear efhco friends - the time is running to register for our efhco newsletter, if not yet done ....

📧info@efhco.eu + want your newsletter in the subject line and we will stay in contact! cheers 🙂

13/05/2019

Dear efhco friends around the globe,
we decided to leave Facebook by May 31, 2019!

And we would like to stay in contact with you all - and if you want to receive our efhco news, just drop us an email with the key words ' Want your newsletter' in the subject line: info@efhco.eu .

Smiling regards + looking forward to your contacts.

The European Federation of Healthcare Clown Organizations (EFHCO) was founded to protect and support professional clown work in a healthcare environment on a European level; in particular caring for hospitalized children, their families and other vulnerable and sick people.  

28/02/2019

Greetings from our Finnish efhco member Sairaalaklovnit.
Kinda small, but still nationwide organization & right now growing and super busy all the time.
A nice little video of an R&D project in 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA2QKv-fsus

This great project by the Ministry of Education and Culture enabled a new type of study and impact assessment of hospital clowns, encourages the role of artistic and cultural activities in health and social services, well-established in many wards across Finland. Hospital clowns and the HUS children’s Hospital, Helsinki joined the Ministry’s project to measure the actual impact of the clowns’ work on the smoothness of procedures and the experiences of the young patients.
Kiitos, Suomi 👋

A project by the Ministry of Education and Culture enabled a new type of study and impact assessment of hospital clowns. The experiment funded by the Ministr...

08/02/2019

Since 25 years the CliniClowns Belgium bringing smiles to our little patients and their parents - HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our efhco member !!