Europe
The European Scout Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the Europe Region of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is pleased to call for participants for The Academy 2017, which is scheduled to...
“Well done, Scouts!” titled the newspaper earlier this summer, when it featured the local Scout and Guide Group’s volunteer engagement in their home town. Not only does the Group of Telfs ( Pfadfinder Telfs, in Tirol, Austria) celebrate its 90th...
On World Refugee Day 2017, WOSM launches its new project “Time to be Welcome”. This event is run in collaboration with the European Youth Forum, and implemented thanks to the European Union and the Council of Europe partnership on youth affairs. This...
PAR - the Refugee Support Platform has been awarded the European Citizen’s Prize 2017 by the European Parliament. PAR - Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados is a Portuguese platform of civil society organisations involved in refugee work in Portugal...
The Σώμα Προσκόπων Κύπρου (Cyprus Scouts Association) is inviting Scout Patrols from every Desmos member NSO (Desmos is the International Link of Orthodox Scouts within the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) to this year's Desmos...
This weekend, World Scout Education Congress is currently happening at Kandersteg International Scout Centre, one of the scouting hearts in Europe. The purpose is to assist NSOs in building capacity in the areas of Youth Programme and Adults in...
More than 7000 guests attended this year’s remembrance ceremony at Mauthausen Concentration Camp near Linz in Austria, commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the liberation in May 1945. Among them once again a large delegation of Guides and Scouts of...
It was a great day for these seven teenagers from Lesvos: ten days ago the group of Ventures from Lesvos (Scouts aged 15 to 18) received World Scouting’s “Messengers of Peace Hero Award” on behalf of Σώμα Ελλήνων Προσκόπων (the Scouts of Greece) for...
Every year, the Swedish Forestry Association’s Golden Twig Award acknowledges exceptional contributions to the wellbeing of the Swedish forests. This year, the Guides and Scouts of Sweden is the first ever association to receive the Golden Twig. His...
Ever since the wars in Syria started, Turkey has been welcoming large numbers of refugees, many of whom continue to stay in refugee camps in the southern border region of the country. “Among the many children and young people living in refugee camps...