International Union of Guides and Scouts of 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 Scout Association, in which member associations from sixteen European countries, from Argentina and have come together from Canada with approximately 70,000 members. The Association is recognized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity as a lay organization and has consultative status with the Council of Europe EUR.

As an independent international association the Uisge is not a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement or the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

With about one third of the members of the French Association Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe substantially affects the development of the entire association.

Scouting

In their work, the Boy Scouts UIGSE refers to the original ideas of Baden -Powell and rejects large parts of modernization since 1960 from. Within the association, the central elements such as Scout Law and Scout Promise have become common.

One focus of the work is the religious education. The UIGSE sees itself as a Catholic organization, but in certain cases also accommodates organizations of other Christian denominations. A basic rule of the association is not to form a mixed - religious groups to prevent religious doubts and blending. The UIGSE advocates a gender-specific education and sets " differentiated education of girls and boys within the different groups as an essential point of their education " on the.

The UIGSE rejects the separation between church and state. In its principles, it is called the separation of church and state, the result of this development, the division of Europe has completed, because it lost the look on his welfare, to the source of its unity and the principle of his life. ( from Guidelines for the religious life in the FSE)

History

On November 1, 1956 joined the German Confederation in Cologne European Scout and Boy Scout groups to French Fédération du Scoutisme Européen ( FSE) together. In the following years, other national associations in the FSE.

In the early 1970s, it came within the FSE for conflict over the religious affiliation of the groups. Two national associations, who rejected a uniform definition, have therefore been excluded from the FSE. In order to regulate these conflicts, 1978, the statutes of the FSE have been revised and the name Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Fédération du Scoutime Européen changed. During this change process, leaving other groups, among them the European Scout Federation, the Association and founded the Confédération Européenne de previously excluded the Scoutisme.

With the codified statutes, the Uisge had laid the foundation for further growth. During the following years developed in all the major states of Western Europe, new groups, after the opening of the Iron Curtain extended the Uisge their activities in the former Soviet bloc from.

Member Associations

As of February 18, 2010