Europe

Did you know that at least 200 astronauts worldwide have been identified as having been Scouts or active in Scouting? The Scout Association recently announced that European Space Agency astronaut, Major Tim Peake has been appointed as its newest...

Whenever Scouts travel abroad it is always good to contact a local Group in advance, and that is just what a group of Rover Scouts from Portugal did when they planned their recent trip to the United Kingdom (UK). And then they ended up dancing down a...

European International Scout Camps 2018 Most of you will only just have returned from your annual Summer Camp. Many will be in the middle of sorting out hundreds, if not thousands, of pictures capturing the different activities of their camp. Looking...

More and more devastating forest fires mark the summer period in southern parts of Europe. More often than not Scouts are engaged in their local communities to support the firefighters. Here is a story from Montenegro. Over the past days nembers of...

This is the third day this week that Scouts from Ελληνικός Προσκοπισμός (the Scouts of Greece) are actively supporting firefighters engaged in battles against devastating forest fires in mainland Greece. Over the past couple of days several...

Leadership from 167 National Scout Organizations representing over 40 million Scouts will convene on Monday for the World Scouting’s ‘general assembly’, the World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Conference will take place from 14-18 August...

For the first time ever, this Saturday, 5 August 2017, Scouting Nederland participated in the Canal Parade in Amsterdam. In the middle of thousands of boats and ships decorated for the occasion, Scouting Nederland’s boat stood out and proudly carried...

Six years ago some 40000 Scouts gathered in southern Sweden at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree to spend 12 memorable days. This week 11000 are back for Jamboree17, the Swedish National Jamboree. Jamboree17 is this year’s largest Scout and Guide event...

Here is an impressive postcard which reached us from Escutismo (Corpo Nacional de Escutas) in Portugal: "More than 22.000 #scouts gathered at Acanac XXII (the 22nd National Jamboree) from all age sections are ready to embrace the future and make the...

The Scouts of Stroggili in Corfu (Greece) feel close to the children of the village of Vrissa in Lesvos, also in Greece. Vrissa and other areas on the island of Lesvos experienced a particularly powerful earthquake last June which not only resulted...