The Academy 2022

The Academy is a unique Scout and Guide event designed to enable participants to get high quality training and networking opportunities around the core priorities of the European Regions of WAGGGS and WOSM.

In today’s context, those involved in Scouting and Guiding are increasingly demonstrating their roles in societies, creating links between countries, communities and individuals. Our associations are powerful portals for exchanges and meetings, enabling and facilitating dialogue between people.

The symbolic framework of the Academy 2022 is therefore that of the portal: a portal, unlike a door or a window, is always open, it allows one to travel and reach places and people, even if the destination is not always known. This event is itself a portal which creates opportunities between our associations and members to exchange, meet, and grow together.

The location of the Academy 2022 also echoes this symbolic framework: during the period of the pandemic, the cities of Vilnius in Lithuania and Lublin in Poland took the initiative to create a virtual portal between the two cities, allowing passers-by from both cities to communicate in real time, thus abolishing geographical barriers. This “digital portal” aims to bring together people from different cultures. And that is what we are aiming for in the Academy this year: building and bringing together. The Academy is a portal for encounters.

The Academy 2022 is supported and co-financed by the European Parliament after a successful grant application submitted by the European Scout Region under the call of the European Year of Youth grants (EP-COMM-SUBV-2022-EYY).