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AGESCI launches the first Scout Centre in Rome. FIRST SCOUT CENTRE IN ROME AGESCI launches Roma Scout Centre, a guest house providing accommodation for more than 120 people and a number of meeting rooms for conferences and seminars from 20 to 250/300...

The World Scouting is present during the flagship event that showcases Development and its actors in Europe, the European Development Days in Stockholm from 22 to 24 October 2009. Don’t hesitate to visit the stand! With the support of the Swedish...

On Sunday 1 November, after all the sessions were finished, all Scout participants departed from the Hotel Sport in Kralupy. Most “academics” headed home but for a few, they had a great chance to visit nearby Prague. A big "THANK YOU" again to all...

The Network meeting in Firenze was held from 6 to 8 November 2009 with lots of new participants joining longer established ones making the event a special one. Besides the Growth Network experienced participants, there were some new members this time...

The Scout Association of Mexico has announced a new date for the 13th Panamerican Scout Jamboree, which will now be held from 10 to 18 July 2010 in Toluca, Mexico. In view of this new date, the selection process for the environment projects...

In March 1909, the founder of Scouting himself, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, made a presentation to an audience of Chilean society influential people gathered at the Honour Room of the University of Chile and motivated them to work for the youth...

One of the main items dealt with in the last edition of the Iberoamerican Magazine for the Youth, destined to “Youth cultures” and edited by the Iberoamerican Organization of Youth (IOY/OIJ), is to reflect on the multiple cultural expressions of the...

As is now public knowledge, the Scout Association of Mexico, in consultation with the Interamerican Scout Committee and with its support, has postponed the 13th Panamerican Scout Jamboree that was scheduled to be held from 26 December 2009 and 2...

6.300 children and students of the Metropolitan Region in Chile assisted to a presentation of the play “The Jungle Book”, put on the stage based on “The Jungle Book” of Rudyard Kipling. Between September 1st and 9th there were 14 theatre...

Scouting began in Suriname in 1924 and so this year Boy Scouts van Suriname is celebrating 85 years of Scouting. Under the leadership of the Chief Commissioner Mr. Humphrey Schurman, the leaders are keen on their Scouting and desirous of expanding...

Brought together about 500 people, a group of scouts from the Peruvian city of Lima held the "March of the Light", a day that I seek to draw attention from neighbors and businesses about the importance of saving energy for the good of the planet and...

Route to Excellence is a system for promoting and facilitating evaluation and planning in National Scout Organizations, based on a set of development indicators that have been extensively analysed by the IDN and were formally approved by the...

inBox is the eNewsletter of the Asia-Pacific Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. It is published monthly by the Asia-Pacific Regional Office of the World Scout Bureau and has four main parts, namely: What's new; What's going on...

December 16, 2009 WOSM delegates held a side event at the Bella Centre that was to serve as the platform for some of the youth of the movement attending the Scouts for Climate Summit sharing with us their stories of how environmental awareness and...

15 December, 2009 - As part of the engaging activities of the COP15 Delegation of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), delegates had an opportunity to discuss the latest positions on the climate agreement with the European Union's...