If you were running a restaurant, what would you do with a dominant cook, a waitress having burn-out and a menu that is already ten years in place? Doing some changes, taking care of your employees, listening to the chef?

The latest news and information concerning the Scout Academy are now available at http://www.scoutacademy.blogspot.com/

Please keep this page in your bookmarks as new information is added regularly.

During a meeting of the European Scout Region at the 38th World Scout Conference in Jeju, Korea, the European Scout Committee took the opportunity to present its Annual Review covering the period from June 2007 to June 2008.

Congratulations to Karin Ahlbäck (Finland) and Milena Pecarski (Serbia), both from our Region, on their election as Youth Advisers to the World Scout Committee. Also congratulations to Jaemin Choi (Korea), Kevin Li (Canada), Nadia Soledad Morrone (Argentina), Fernanda Cristina Santos Soares (Brazil) who were also elected.

Congratulations to all who offered themselves for election in a willingness to participate actively in the democratic process.

Two new resource materials in the area of Adult Resources are now available for downloading in our Resource Centre.

On Wednesday 9th April, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), Marian Harkin (IE), Gisela Kallenbach (DE), Emmanouil Angelakas (GR), Mieczyslaw Janowski (PL) and Joel Hasse Ferreira (PT) launched a written declaration in the Parliament to propose 2011 be designated the European Year of Volunteering. If it is adopted it will make a significant contribution to the campaign to have the year designated.

Roverway is an event offered by the Europe Region WAGGGS and the European Scout Region for Rovers and Rangers aged between 16 to 22. It will be held for the third time in 2009 and this time it is organised by the Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association. This is a great opportunity for Scouts from all over Europe to come to Iceland, experience a unique country while taking part in a international event.

After many months of work the World Scout Bureau – European Region Office (WSB-ERO) has adopted an environmental action plan. Just as the tag line of WOSM is “creating a better world”, so we must ensure not to cause any unnecessary harm. The WSB-ERO will now seek to do these two things through our work and through our actions.

The office and the staff have committed to a number of personal and collective actions. If you would like to know more you can download the action plan here.

For the second year in a row the European Scout Region has secured administrative support from the EU Commission through the Youth in Action. This year we have been awarded the maximum allocation of €35,000.

On 7th May WOSM held its 6th meeting in the European Parliament on how young people are leading social change in Africa in the framework of EU Africa co-operation. The meeting was hosted by Scout and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Alessandro Battilocchio (IT) and was addressed by Margrete Auken (DK), the Parliament's Vice-President Luisa Morgantini (IT), Anthony Crasner, The European Commission (DG DEV), Julia Ojanen of Plan International/Concord, Giuseppe Porcaro, The European Youth Forum and Babacar Ndiaye CNGEI. Various methods of empowering young people were discussed, as was the need to focus on education and the opportunities provided by youth organisations between the two continents especially between the nearly one million Scouts in Africa and the 1.4 million in Europe.