The International Union of the Guides and Scouts of Europe - Federation of Scouts of Europe (Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d’Europe, UIGSE; also known as Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe – Fédération du Scoutisme Européen, UISGE-FSE, or simply as Fédération du Scoutisme Européen, FSE) is a traditional faith-based Scouting organization with 20 member associations in 17 European countries and also in North America (Canada and the United States), serving roughly 65,000 members. The organization, headquartered in France, was founded in 1956 by a group of German and French Roman Catholic Scoutmasters as a faith-based Scouting movement, in order to reconcile the European peoples in the aftermath of the Second World War.
| International Union of the Guides and Scouts of Europe | |||
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| Headquarters | Château-Landon, Seine-et-Marne,  France | ||
| Country | see table | ||
| Founded | 1956[1] | ||
| Membership | 68,000 | ||
| Federal Commissioner | Nathalie Flama | ||
| Federal President | Jean-Luc Angélis | ||
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| Website uigse-fse | |||
In the Member organizations both boys and girls can be members, but are strictly separated in all age groups, except sometimes in the otters. Member organizations are preferably single faith, local groups must be single faith, most are Roman Catholic.
The Confederation of European Scouts (CES) is a split off of the UIGSE, it left after controversies about the importance of religious elements in the single associations' programs and co-education.[2]
History
editThe Catholic Scouting tradition was started by Father Jacques Sevin, Count Mario di Carpegna, professor Jean Corbisier and others.[3] The Federation of Scouts of Europe (FSE) was founded in Europe in 1956 as a Catholic Scouting European organization in Cologne, Germany.[1][4] From 1962 to 1968 under the direction of Perig and Lizig Géraud-Keraod, the FSE revised the association's constitution, drafted the Charter of the Natural and Christian Principles of European Scouting and drafted a new federal statute. The statute adopted its current name and acknowledged its "belonging to the Catholic Church".[1] In 2003, the Holy See's Pontifical Council for the Laity granted the organization five year recognition status as a Private International Association of Faithful of Pontifical Right,[3][5] and, in 2008, it granted the organization a Decree of recognition.[6]
Governance
editThe UIGSE governing organization include a federal council, a federal bureau and a federal commission. The federal council is made up of member associations representatives and meets yearly to make changes in the programs and the guidelines, determining addition or expulsion of member associations, adopt the organization budget and appointment of federal bureau members and other committees or working groups.[1]
The federal bureau consists of the president, the vice president, and the secretary of the federal council plus the federal commissioner. Consultative voting members of the bureau are the spiritual advisor (ecclesiastical assistant) and the deputy commissioners. General management is handled by the bureau.[1]
The commission is the day-to-day management of the organization headed by the federal commissioner. The organization publishes Nouvelles de notre Fraternité, a quarterly newsletter and Lettre aux Commissaires généraux, a quarterly liaison newsletter.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Union of European Guides and Scouts". Zenit. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ "FSE Alsace Geschichte". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
- ^ a b "Scouting for Alternative to Video Games". Zenit. Innovative Media Inc. 6 March 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Girard, Carolyn (22 May 2009). "Catholic scouts celebrate 10 years". The Catholic Register. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ "International Union of European Guides and Scouts European Scouting Federation". Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life. Vatican. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
On 26 August 2003 the Pontifical Council for the Laity decreed recognition of the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe - Fédération du Scoutisme Européen as an international association of the faithful of Pontifical Right.
- ^ Josef Clemens. "About Us | Federation of North-American Explorers (FNE)". Federation of North-American Explorers (FNE). Retrieved 11 May 2018.
In answer to your letter dated January 12th 2008, and at the end of the period of approval ad experimentum of the Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d'Europe – Fédération du Scoutisme Européen (UIGSE-FSE), the Pontifical Council for the Laity, noticing the precious contribution brought by the Union in the field of youth pastoral, is happy to send you, attached, the Decree of recognition of the UIGSE-FSE and a copy of this decree, duly certified by this Dicastery.