Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe
The Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe (UIGSE; also Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Fédération du Scoutisme Européen , UISGE-FSE) is an international Christian scout association , in which member associations from sixteen European countries, from Argentina and from Canada with about 70,000 dependents. The association, based in Château-Landon (France), is recognized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as a lay organization and has advisory status with the Council of Europe .
As an independent international association, UISGE is not a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement or the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts .
With around a third of its members, the French Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe has a major influence on the development of the entire association.
Scout work
Content
In its scouting work, the UIGSE refers to the original ideas of Baden-Powell and has rejected large parts of the modernizations since 1960. The central elements such as the Boy Scout Law and Boy Scout Promises are uniformly regulated within the association .
One focus of the work is religious education. The UIGSE advocates a gender-specific upbringing and relies on the “differentiated upbringing of girls and boys within the different groups as an essential point of their pedagogy”.
Confessional composition
The UIGSE sees itself as a Catholic association, which in certain cases also accepts associations of other Christian denominations . In Germany and Canada, as of January 2018, it consisted of Catholic and Protestant scouts , in Bulgaria and Russia Orthodox , in Romania Catholic and Orthodox scouts. A basic rule of the association is not to form mixed confessional groups in order to prevent doubts and confusion of faith.
history
On November 1, 1956 joined in Cologne of the German Confederation of European Scouts and French scout groups for Fédération du Scoutisme Européen (FSE) together. In the following years, other national associations emerged in the FSE.
At the beginning of the 1970s there was a conflict within the FSE over the religious ties of the groups. Two national associations that rejected a uniform definition were therefore excluded from the FSE. In order to resolve these conflicts, the statutes of the FSE were revised in 1978 and the name was changed to Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Fédération du Scoutime Européen . During this change process, other groups, including the Association of European Scouts , left the association and founded the Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme with the previously excluded .
With the revised statutes, UISGE laid the foundation for further growth. In the years that followed, new groups emerged in all of the larger Western European countries. After the Iron Curtain was opened , the UISGE expanded its activities to include the former Eastern Bloc .
reception
For the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life founded by Pope Francis in 2016 , its Prefect Cardinal Kevin Farrell praised the UIGSE in 2017 for its religious activities in the previous year.
Member associations
Status: 2017
| country | Association | founding year | Number of members (estimated; as of 2010) |
Membership status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Belgique (GSE-B) Europascouts en Gidsen - België (ESG-B) |
1960 | 1,300 | Full member |
| Germany | Evangelical Scouting of Europe (EPE, Protestant ) | 1977 | 300 | Full member |
| Germany | Catholic Scouting of Europe (KPE, Catholic ) | 1976 | 2,500 | Full member |
| France | Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe (AGSE) | 1958 | 30,000 | Full member |
| Italy | Associazione Italiana Guide e Scouts d'Europa Cattolici della FSE (AIGSEC-FSE) | 1976 | 20,000 | Full member |
| Canada | Association Evangélique du Scoutisme au Québec Inc. (Protestant) | 1982 | 300 | candidate |
| Canada and USA | Federation of North American Explorers (Catholic) | 1999 | candidate | |
| Lithuania | Lietuvos Nacionalinė Europos Skautų Asociacija (LNESA) | 1992 | 300 | candidate |
| Luxembourg | Europa Scouten vu Lëtzebuerg | candidate | ||
| Mexico | Movimiento Scout Católico Mexicano | 2011 | 100 | observer |
| Netherlands | Europascouts en Gidsen Nederland | candidate | ||
| Austria | Catholic Scouting of Europe - Austria (KPE-Ö) | 1981 | 150 | Full member |
| Poland | Stowarzyszenia Harcerstwa Katolickiego "Zawisza" (SHK Zawisza) | 1982/1990 | 1,700 | Full member |
| Portugal | Associação das Guias e Escuteiros da Europa - Portugal (AGEE) | 1979 | Full member | |
| Romania | Cercetaşii Creştini Români din Federaţia Scoutismu-lui European (ACCR-FSE) | 1991 | 500 | Full member |
| Russia | ORYuR (Interregion Association of Russian Orthodox Scouts ORUR) | 1990 | 2,500 | Associated |
| Switzerland | Swiss Scouts of Europe (SPE) Scoutisme Européen Suisse (SES) Scautismo Europeo Svizzero (SES) |
1977 | 250 | Full member |
| Slovakia | Združenie Katolíckych Vodkýň a Skautov Európy na Slovensku (ZKVSES) | candidate | ||
| Spain | Asociación Española Guías y Scouts de Europa (AEGSE) | 1978 | 500 | Full member |
| Czech Republic | Asociace skautek a skautů Evropy (ASSE) | 50 | candidate | |
| Ukraine | Katolickije Skautsvo Evropi | candidate | ||
| United Kingdom | Guides and Scouts of Europe | observer | ||
| Belarus | Katalickija Skautki i Skauty FSE | 115 | candidate |
See also
Web links
- UIGSE homepage
- History of the European Scouts (French; PDF file; 921 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://uigse-fse.org/fr/statuts/ Federal Statute of the Union International des Guides et Scouts d'Europe Fédération du Scoutisme Européen, 1.2.8.
- ^ Fédération du Scoutisme Européen: Notre Fraternité. UIGSE-FSE website, accessed on January 14, 2018
- ↑ https://riviste.fse.it/azimuth/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/12/Azimuth-2-2017-WEB.pdf p. 47