Agenda

Opening Ceremony of the 17th European Guide and Scout Conference. Opening will take place in front of the Laurenskerk, Rotterdam. We start this activity at 20:00 and finish no later than 22:00 CEST.

Joint Opening of the 17th European Scout and Guide Conference. During the session delegates will vote on appointing Joint Conference Chairs, approval of joint Agenda, approval of Joint Rules of Procedure, and approval of Tellers and Recommendations Committee, hear a reporting on joint work from Eline Marie Grøholt, Chairperson of the WAGGGS Europe Committee and Lars Kramm, Chairperson of the European Regional Committee, listen to a presentation of the next 18th European Guide and Scout Conference Bid and Roverway 2024 “North of the Ordinary!” (Norway) Host Team. 

First part of the morning session will start from the “Inspiring the Region” moment, during which we will welcome three speakers addressing the Conference and discussing the topic “The Europe we need (and how Scouting can help)”. We will welcome Silja Markklula, President of the European Youth Forum, Pamela Akplogan, Director of Youth, Sport and Citizenship at Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie based in Paris and Ailbhe Finn,  Secretary General of the Social Platform based in Brussels.

Second part of the session will be dedicated to the updates from the WOSM world level about Strategy for Scouting, WOSM initiatives within the Scouts for SDGs mobilisation and Safe from Harm.

During the session delegates will vote on the new European Regional Committee 2022-2025.

During the session participants will hear presentations on the upcoming WOSM events: World Scout Jamboree 2023 Korea, World Scout Conference 2024 Egypt, World Scout MOOT 2025 Portugal; Kandersteg International Scout Centre presentation and European Scout Foundation presentation. 

During the session the Bronze Wolf Ceremony will take place.

During the session Conference delegates will vote on the 24th European Scout Conference Resolutions.

Several simultaneous breakout sessions dedicated to global WOSM topics allowing Conference participants to learn about current WOSM global level works and an in-depth discussion about the topics especially interesting for them: 

Advocacy for Growth, Positioning and Influence

Learn how NSOs can leverage advocacy to better position themselves on important issues or concerns, as well as to grow as a Movement, and impact policy change or decision-making that can have direct institutional benefits.

Evidence Based Programming: Social impact, Monitoring and Evaluation

WOSM is moving towards becoming a more evidence-based organisation where its policies, programmes, and practices are backed by evidence that support their effectiveness. Join this session for the updates on social impact measurement, our holistic monitoring and evaluation framework, and a revised way of measuring the progress of the World Triennial Plan with possible regional input and alignment. 

Financial Management as a necessity for strong organisations

This session will explore with NSO’s the resources and tools available for strengthening financial management in their organisation’s. Through the sharing of best practices, potential solutions, and the support WOSM can provide to ensure strong and sustainable Scouting organizations.

Growing our movement in the post-pandemic environment

Join this session to learn more about the growth of Scouting in post-pandemic communities and the opportunities to increase our social impact by engaging more young people. Participants will be familiarised with the new resources in the growth service, the key growth initiatives, and how NSO’s can be supported.

GSAT: bring your NSO to world-class standard

The GSAT standard is being renewed to bring it up to date with international best standards, making now the perfect time to engage with one of the GSAT assessments. Strong, sustainable NSO’s are more important than ever in today’s context. Taking part in this workshop will explore how GSAT will help your NSO strengthen its practices to ensure it can thrive and secure great quality Scouting for its members in the future.

Innovation in the Youth Programme

How often does your NSO assess on how Scouting can better prepare young people to thrive in this ever-changing world? Join this session to reflect on why and how your NSO can innovate its youth programmes and leverage WOSM’s unique, self-educational approach to empowering youth in this new digital world.

Reaching Out

Do we reach to all parts of the community in our countries? Do we make the right efforts to be inclusive movement? Is Scouting Youth programme reaching to vulnerable young people? Do we have enough data to draw the big picture on our diversity and inclusion? All these will be discussed in the session

Safe from Harm Compliance

This workshop will give the opportunity to NSOs to assess their Safe from Harm situation and further reflect and plan what are the next steps they can take to go further in Safe from Harm.

Sustainability

In this session, we will discuss and gather input into WOSM’s forthcoming climate impact strategy and understand NSOs’ interests and needs when it comes to resources and mechanisms that will allow them to be more environmentally sustainable. 

World Events for the Future, sustainability, format and risk  

Be part of the discussion as we review all of our World Events with a focus on how World Scouting can better support NSOs on organizing sustainable events and managing and mitigating risks in an ever-changing world.

Youth Engagement in Decision Making

Contribute to identify institutional, structural and cultural barriers to meaningful youth participation in WOSM’s decision-making processes, as well as opportunities and recommendations to overcome these barriers.

Opening of the 24th European Scout Conference. During the session delegations will confirm their attendance during roll call, and subsequently delegates will vote on appointing Conference Chairs and approval of Tellers and Resolutions Committee, hear a reporting on the 2019-2022 Triennium from Lars Kramm, Martin Persson, Elena Sinkevičiūtė, Joaquim Castro de Freitas, Julijana Daskalov, Matthias Gerth - The European Regional Committee and Abir Koubaa, Regional Director of the European Scout Region, hear and vote on the Thankmar Wagner, European Scout Region Treasurer’s report. During the session general updates from the world level will also be shared by Edward Andrew ”Andy” Chapman, Chairperson of the World Scout Committee and Ahmad Alhendawi, WOSM Secretary General.

Two Regional Scout Plan 2022-2025 sessions aim to familiarise the participants with the content and strategic background of the proposed Regional Scout Plan 2022-2025. 

The first session will be focused on a general presentation of the Plan, highlighting the drafting process, fundamental points of the plan, the Guiding principles, its Strategic Priorities and Objectives; followed by a round-table discussion and Q&A session during which Delegates will have an opportunity to ask questions.

During the session Conference delegates will vote on the 24th European Scout Conference Resolutions.

Following the plenary session, reporting on the Regional Scout Plan 2019-2022 will continue in several breakouts on the strategic priorities of the Regional Scout Plan - Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Impact of Scouting as well as external relations and other support measures, allowing Conference participants for a more in-depth discussion in smaller groups.

Two Regional Scout Plan 2022-2025 sessions aim to familiarise the participants with the content and strategic background of the proposed Regional Scout Plan 2022-2025.

The second session will be delivered in smaller breakout groups, and will allow delegates to collaboratively contribute to recommendations of potential actions to deliver the plan. Additionally we will explore opportunities for alignment between the Regional Scout Plan and national strategies, and how MOs may be able to assist the Region deliver the plan.

Several simultaneous breakout sessions dedicated to global WOSM topics allowing Conference participants to learn about current WOSM global level works and an in-depth discussion about the topics especially interesting for them: 

Advocacy for Growth, Positioning and Influence

Learn how NSOs can leverage advocacy to better position themselves on important issues or concerns, as well as to grow as a Movement, and impact policy change or decision-making that can have direct institutional benefits.

Evidence Based Programming: Social impact, Monitoring and Evaluation

WOSM is moving towards becoming a more evidence-based organisation where its policies, programmes, and practices are backed by evidence that support their effectiveness. Join this session for the updates on social impact measurement, our holistic monitoring and evaluation framework, and a revised way of measuring the progress of the World Triennial Plan with possible regional input and alignment. 

Financial Management as a necessity for strong organisations

This session will explore with NSO’s the resources and tools available for strengthening financial management in their organisation’s. Through the sharing of best practices, potential solutions, and the support WOSM can provide to ensure strong and sustainable Scouting organizations.

Growing our movement in the post-pandemic environment

Join this session to learn more about the growth of Scouting in post-pandemic communities and the opportunities to increase our social impact by engaging more young people. Participants will be familiarised with the new resources in the growth service, the key growth initiatives, and how NSO’s can be supported.

GSAT: bring your NSO to world-class standard

The GSAT standard is being renewed to bring it up to date with international best standards, making now the perfect time to engage with one of the GSAT assessments. Strong, sustainable NSO’s are more important than ever in today’s context. Taking part in this workshop will explore how GSAT will help your NSO strengthen its practices to ensure it can thrive and secure great quality Scouting for its members in the future.

Innovation in the Youth Programme

How often does your NSO assess on how Scouting can better prepare young people to thrive in this ever-changing world? Join this session to reflect on why and how your NSO can innovate its youth programmes and leverage WOSM’s unique, self-educational approach to empowering youth in this new digital world.

Reaching Out

Do we reach to all parts of the community in our countries? Do we make the right efforts to be inclusive movement? Is Scouting Youth programme reaching to vulnerable young people? Do we have enough data to draw the big picture on our diversity and inclusion? All these will be discussed in the session

Safe from Harm Compliance

This workshop will give the opportunity to NSOs to assess their Safe from Harm situation and further reflect and plan what are the next steps they can take to go further in Safe from Harm.

Sustainability

In this session, we will discuss and gather input into WOSM’s forthcoming climate impact strategy and understand NSOs’ interests and needs when it comes to resources and mechanisms that will allow them to be more environmentally sustainable. 

World Events for the Future, sustainability, format and risk  

Be part of the discussion as we review all of our World Events with a focus on how World Scouting can better support NSOs on organizing sustainable events and managing and mitigating risks in an ever-changing world.

Youth Engagement in Decision Making

Contribute to identify institutional, structural and cultural barriers to meaningful youth participation in WOSM’s decision-making processes, as well as opportunities and recommendations to overcome these barriers.

During the session Conference delegates will vote on the 24th European Scout Conference Resolutions.

Being the final session of the Conference, the participants will hear addresses from the outgoing and the elected Chairpersons of the European Scout Committee.

Available sessions

The Greek Guiding Association

“Leave it to me” : mental empowerment of adolescent & young adults

The Greek Guiding Association workshop will be based on a programme currently running for the Rangers in Greece. It is called ""#leave it to me!"" and concerns the mental empowerment of adolescents and young adults in the post-pandemic era. It aims to reinforce skills like self-confidence, efficient time-management, mindfulness and creative and fulfilling leadership, so that the Rangers can meet the post Covid-19 future with confidence and pride. The programme will end in May 2022 with a national gathering where we will implement and assess the skills obtained by giving back to the community. It runs over a period of five months (Dec.2021-Apr.2022) with activity packs delivered monthly.

Activities include many self-actualisation exercises, plenty of games, smart planning and goal-setting and group discussions and evaluation.

outside WAGGGS plenary (right side)

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Scoutisme Français

“Gender Watch”: adapting a WAGGGS tool, how you can collect data & analuse them according to your goal

"Ensure inclusive participation for all in decision-making space

Creating an observatory of participation thanks to the gender-watch method is a great tool to a thriving organisation.

Presentation of the Gender watch (created by WAGGGS Europe). Its adaptation at SGDF, why we chose to have a gender watch tool, our method that tracks missions within the movement, age and participation. How to create your own tool adapted to your context? How to create qualitative and quantitative data, analyse data according to your goal

Capellen Zaal

Catholic Guides of Ireland

Growth - striving and thriving through Covid 19

Showcasing ways in which our organisation set about tackling retention of both youth and adult members throughout the pandemic; by sharing some of the activity ideas that we used to stay connected with our members, and how we then built on those relationships to forge deeper bonds; how we looked to develop our programme so that it could be delivered in person, online or a hybrid of both.

Capellen Foyer

Scouterna

 OpenUp: Welcoming foreign guides and scouts living in Sweden to our groups.

We want to use the potential that we have through guiding and scouting worldwide, by inviting guides and scouts that have moved to Sweden but not yet found the way into Scouterna to join our groups. This is a way to find new leaders for our groups but also to give these people a new context and open a door to the Swedish culture and society.

Verhagen  Dakfoyer

The joint Committee of Girl Guides in Denmark &

Guiding & Scouting in Belgium

Youth Engagement: How to retain your youth volunteers in your national organization and how to develop and engage young members to contribute in your organization.

We believe that by improving our work on youth engagement including how to retain young volunteers and develop them to contribute to our organization, we become more united and a more thriving organization/movement.

Eduard Filipse Zaal

Ring deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände

Lëtzebuerger Guiden a Scouten

Association of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria

How to involve young people in decision-making processes - the young delegate programme

Couple of years ago, parts of the German speaking region started to search actively for young guides and scouts to represent their MOs at international conferences. Therefore, we implemented the Young Delegate program. Through this program, the young delegates get specific training on various (MO/regional/world related) topics and ahead of the conference additional preparation in order to be an active part of the delegation during the conference.

One benefit that arose since the implementation of the program is the connection and coordination amongst the German speaking MOs, thus the young delegates. Since they get to know the “conference world” together, similar questions and challenges can be answered and solved collectively. On top of that, the young delegates create a network crucial for their work and also for further positions they want to fill.

Three organizations, three methods, one goal.

Foyer- outside WAGGGS plenary (left side)

WAGGGS Core Mission:  Quality Learning and Development in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting

Come and find out about this exciting new project being undertaken by the WAGGGS Core Mission Team and a co-creation group of specialists from around the Movement! The Quality Learning and Development project aims to create a framework that updates and refines how we approach quality in adult development and educational programme in WAGGGS and we want to hear from you about how you support quality in these areas work in your MOs.

In this session you will have a chance to:

- share among peers what you organisation does in these fields,

- get to know the scope of the project which will deliver on Motions 16 and 17 of World conference, updating adult training guidelines and building on prepared to learn prepared to lead

- express your organisations' needs in connection to the outputs of the project

See you there!

Grote Zaal Foyer 2

WAGGGS global: Compass 2032

The session’s objectives:

1. Create a space for MOs to explore the Compass Conversations and share good practice, common challenges and collaboration opportunities.
2. To encourage MOs to integrate Compass 2032 into their strategic plans.
3. To provide MOs with tools to elaborate or adapt strategic plans that serve the objectives of Compass 2032.

Grote Zaal Foyer 1

WAGGGS global: WAGGGS membership fee working group and consultation session

Come along to find out more about the work of the MO Membership Fee Working Group so far.m and have your day! We will hear from Anna Segall about the role of global membership fees with the context of WAGGGS’ overall finances, bear some of the initial observations of the working group and then we will be interested in your views on some initial questions and comments  we have!

Juriaanse Zaal

During the session, in a café format, Conference participants will be able to meet and ask questions to both WOSM and WAGGGS Candidates for the Committees (WOSM Candidates: Jérémy Apert, Péter Bedekovics, Matthias Gerth, Nenad Jovanovski, Martin Seeman, Diana Slabu, Boris Vujnović, Wouter Zilverberg. WAGGGS Candidates: Evelyn Dick, Filomena Grasso, Signe Gertz Jensen, Paula Neher, Antonia Pata, Rezida Rzayeva, Olivia Solman).

During the session Conference delegates will hear the report of the Recommendations Committee, vote on recommendations of the 17th European Guide and Scout Conference, vote on the next host of the 18th European Guide and Scout Conference and follow the presentation of the new Joint Committee. Session will be finalised with the official closing of the 17th European Scout and Guide Conference.

1. Scoutisme Francais : Implement a safe from harm and well-being training

Presentation of the e-learning module mandatory for leaders, safe from harm and children protection policy. Dynamic within SGDF to prevent, act and talk about well-being.

Hudig Zaal

2. Associação Guias de Portugal:

How we developed the 100 girls project (New Leadership Model!) in our MO

Juriaanse Zaal

3. WAGGGS Core mission: How can Core Mission support the work of Member Organisation

The WAGGGS Core Mission team works on the elements that are at the heart of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting: it's about how we support Member Organisations to create space for all their members to practice leadership, both inside the Movement and in their wider society, and how we “keep the flame” of our educational method, supporting our Member Organisations (MOs) to offer a safe, inclusive and high quality experience to their members. Come to this session where you can learn how we can support YOUR work in the areas of Girl Experience, Leadership Practice and Girl-Led Advocacy!

Mandele Zaal

4. Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo: A good turn for Peace

This year we launched the “good turn for peace” campaign at national level and we would like to share some of the more interesting and exciting activities with Europe

Schadee Zaal

5. WAGGGS Global Programmes: Various WAGGGS Global Programmes

Brief presentation of all our programmes. How can you get involved? How you can get funding for implementing Global Progrmmes? Have a taster activity from Free Being Me

Beuningen Zaal

6. World Centers: Meet the World Centers & check the available opportunities

Willem Burger Foyer

6. WAGGGS World Centers: International Experiences - Local to Global

Ideas on how your members can get the most benefit from International Experiences.

Outside WAGGGS plenary

8. Europe Region Sustainability Working group Presentation of our sustainability statement and guidelines more in details

Feestzaal

International Evening will be an opportunity to show your local Guide and Scout traditions and to display other features about your country.

Rotterdam Evening  will focus on discovering the city of Rotterdam. In four groups, participants will choose from the following activities:

Below Sea-level: the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier
A construction the size of two Eiffel towers, which is what will stand between the sea and Rotterdam, if necessary.
Do you want to learn how we keep our feet dry?
Join us at Below Sea-level. We take you to the barrier and its information centre and afterwards we will visit Maasland, a picturesque village, with Instagram perfect views and a nice meal.
Time 18:00-22:00.
Dinner and transportation included.

Night @ the Park
Busy days at the Conference, relaxed night at the park! Imagine, a small campfire, indoor cinema, cocktail workshop, pizza, and outdoor games. What more do you need to relax and enjoy? So, take a walk to one of the few Scout Houses in the city centre of Rotterdam and get ready for a fun evening @ the park.
Time 18:00-22:00.
Dinner included.

Distance from De Doelen: 45 minutes (or with public transport).
Possibility to change clothes and store items.

Dutch Camp Experience
Do you want to experience a typical Summer Camp evening at a unique campsite? With typical camp activities, including a campfire? Get active at the Scout Centre Rotterdam, which is part of a unique piece of nature in the Dutch landscape. The Scout Centre is situated in one of the few remaining peatlands within the border of the municipality. And did you know the centre is a SCENES campsite?
Time 18:00-22:00.
Dinner and transportation included.
Possibility to change clothes and store items.

Sail the waves
Get to know the 275 Dutch Sea Scout Groups by visiting one of their Scout Houses, and more exciting, experience one of their exciting activities: sail on the lake. But that is not all: enjoy the nearby beach, canoes, typical Scout activities, and a nice barbecue. All this brought to you by the Sea Scout Groups of Rotterdam! Meet our local volunteers who want to share their stories with you. Make sure you can swim and expect to get wet!
Time 18:00-22:00.
Dinner and transportation included.
Possibility to change clothes and store items.

Joint session during which WOSM and WAGGGS Member Organisations will showcase their best practices on various topics:

Measuring the social impact of Scouting: presentation of the process and first results; Les Scouts de Belgique

Les Scouts de Belgique has defined "impact" as its triennium theme 2019-2022. In this framework, our association has carried out, together with an external partner, a whole survey process on measuring the social impact of Scouting.

The objective of the workshop is to present the construction process and the first results of the survey.

session length: 40 min

75% more Scouts in 15 years; Junák - Czech Scouting  

75% more Scouts in 15 years. Membership growth in Czechia. Presenting reasons behind lasting memberhip growth in Czechia. 

session length: 40 mins

Youth Engagement: How to retain your youth volunteers in your national organization and how to develop and engage young members to contribute in your organization; The joint Committee of Girl Guides in Denmark & Guiding and Scouting in Belgium

We believe that by improving our work on youth engagement including how to retain young volunteers and develop them to contribute to our organization, we become more united and a more thriving organization/movement.

Session length: 90 mins

Room: Ruys Zaal

Organising sustainable national events; Scoutisme Français

Scouts et Guides de France received the label 3 of eco-responsible event certification for the organisation of their general assembly in April 2022, which brought together 4,500 participants. This session will be an opportunity to share the elements of success of this approach.

session length: 90 minutes

“Gender Watch”: adapting a WAGGGS tool, how you can collect data & analyze them according to your goal; Scoutisme Français 

Ensure inclusive participation for all in decision-making space

Creating an observatory of participation thanks to the gender-watch method is a great tool to a thriving organisation.

Presentation of the Gender watch (created by WAGGGS Europe). Its adaptation at SGDF, why we chose to have a gender watch tool, our method that tracks missions within the movement, age and participation. Quiz : data from our general assemblies (2016, 2017, 2022).

How to create your own tool adapted to your context? How to create qualitative and quantitative data, analyse data according to your goal.

 Session length: 90 mins

Room: Juriaanse Zaal (WAGGGS Plenary)

Taking Responsibility for the Past: Sexual Violence in Scouting and Guiding; Ring deutscher Pfadfinder*innenverbände

Internationally, the handling of sexual violence in organizations such as the church, sport clubs and scouting are an ongoing topic. About five years ago, the Scout and Girl Guiding Associations in Germany initiated a process aiming to define their responsibility for sexual violence within their organization’s past - specifically during times, when there wasn’t a comprehensive prevention program in place. We ask questions like: How did the organizational and cultural framework of scouting enabled sexual violence? And: How can we do justice to Scouts and Guides, who were affected by sexual violence? We would like to introduce you to our reappraisal projects and are looking forward to exchanging information on how the topic is dealt with in other National Scout and Girl Guiding Associations. We believe that an open conversation about mistakes in the past can help to prevent future ones. It also determines how credible we are in our effort to make Scouting and Guiding a save place for children and young people.

session length: 90 minutes

How to involve young people in decision-making processes - the young delegate programme; Ring deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände, Lëtzebuerger Guiden a Scouten, Association of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria

Couple of years ago, parts of the German speaking region started to search actively for young guides and scouts to represent their MOs at international conferences. Therefore, we implemented the Young Delegate program. Through this program, the young delegates get specific training on various (MO/regional/world related) topics and ahead of the conference additional preparation in order to be an active part of the delegation during the conference.

One benefit that arose since the implementation of the program is the connection and coordination amongst the German speaking MOs, thus the young delegates. Since they get to know the “conference world” together, similar questions and challenges can be answered and solved collectively. On top of that, the young delegates create a network crucial for their work and also for further positions they want to fill.

Three organizations, three methods, one goal.

Room: Van Capellen Foyer

"Adopt a beach" project, in partnership with WWF; Soma Hellinon Proskopon

The "Adopt a Beach" project is a new citizen science initiative to record coastal plastic pollution in our country. It is run by WWF and Soma Hellinon Proskopon (Scouts of Greece) participates as a strategic partner. Each scout group adopts a specific beach and is trained by WWF Hellas staff in the process of monitoring and recording litter. The action is periodically repeated 2 to 4 times a year to create time series and the data from the recordings are registered in order to be publicly available to all. The main findings will be reflected in an annual report, which will be sent to public services, municipal authorities and research bodies.

session length: 40 min

 “Leave it to me” : mental empowerment of adolescent & young adults; The Greek Guide Association 

The Greek Guiding Association workshop will be based on a programme currently running for the Rangers in Greece. It is called "#leave it to me!" and concerns the mental empowerment of adolescents and young adults in the post-pandemic era. It aims to reinforce skills like self-confidence, efficient time-management, mindfulness and creative and fulfilling leadership, so that the Rangers can meet the post Covid-19 future with confidence and pride. The programme will end in May 2022 with a national gathering where we will implement and assess the skills obtained by giving back to the community. It runs over a period of five months (Dec.2021-Apr.2022) with activity packs delivered monthly.

Activities include many self-actualisation exercises, plenty of games, smart planning and goal-setting and group discussions and evaluation.

 Session length: 90 mins

Room: Van der Vorm Zaal

Growth - striving and thriving through Covid 19; Catholic Guides of Ireland 

Showcasing ways in which our organisation set about tackling retention of both youth and adult members throughout the pandemic; by sharing some of the activity ideas that we used to stay connected with our members, and how we then built on those relationships to forge deeper bonds; how we looked to develop our programme so that it could be delivered in person, online or a hybrid of both

 Session length: 90 mins

Room: Plate Zaal

Growth Potential Project; The Scout Association of Macedonia (Sojuz na Izvidnici na Makedonija),

Scout and Guide Association of Montenegro (Savez izvidaca Crne Gore), Scouts of Albania

The session will bring the best practices from Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Albania from the last 3 years (growth strategy development , GSAT and the MoP re-energising actions) and then present SYSPUC project as a result of GPP action with focus on overall capacity building). You can read more about the project here: https://www.scout.org/New-initiative-supports-membership-growth-in-European-NSOs

session length: 40 min

Time for Adventure; Scouting Nederland

Scouting isn't always popular with people who don't know us. This new recruitment campaign mainly shows the cool activities. Step by step newcomers are introduced to Scouting. This workshop is provided by the national communication team of Scouting Nederland.

session length: 40 minutes

More volunteers in less time; Scouting Netherlands

In the Netherlands there is a growing demand for more volunteers and keeping them engaged with Scouting for longer periods of time. Inspired by sports organisations we recently started a new programme to facilitate and stimulate Scouting organisations to do just that. First results are promising; we love to share with you what we do.

session length: 40 minutes

Scouts for Ukraine - WOSM-UNICEF Partnership; National Organization of Romanian Scouts, The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association 

Since the first day of the Russian aggression on Ukraine Scouts were helping out refugees who were looking for a safe place outside of their country. What Scouts did in different countries? What Scouts will be doing in the next months? How we see the role of youth organization in the humanitarian response and as actors to facilitate social integration of children and young people in the hosting communities. 

session length: 40 minutes

OpenUp: Welcoming foreign guides and scouts living in Sweden to our groups; Scouterna 

We want to use the potential that we have through guiding and scouting worldwide, by inviting guides and scouts that have moved to Sweden but not yet found the way into Scouterna to join our groups. This is a way to find new leaders for our groups but also to give these people a new context and open a door to the Swedish culture and society.

Session length: 90 mins

Room: Eduard Filipse Zaal

Squirrels - new age section; The Scout Association

An overview on the UK’s newest youth section for 4-6 year olds!

Session length: 40 min

Leading by example: How your leadership affects the culture of your organisation; WAGGGS Core Mission

The session revolves around the Leadership model, which has "shared leadership" and "worldly leadership" as core concepts. We will focus on how leaders of organisations can role model these behaviours and the impact that having an organisational culture of shared leadership can have towards the rest of the MO/NSA/NSO

Session length: 90 mins

Room: Eduard Filipse Zaal

WOSM ESR Advocacy Position Papers: presentation and discussion; WOSM External Representatives

The External Representatives for the European Region have developed a series of policy position papers covering our key areas of advocacy work. These papers will be shared and workshopped with feedback taken from members - take this opportunity to engage with the positions of the region on topics like D&I, Sustainability, Non-Formal Education etc.

session length: 40 min

WOSM Services; WOSM World Scout Bureau (WOSM only session)

During the session the WOSM Services Platform will be presented and participants will receive all the information to identify, select and request a service, use the materials and access the e-learnings.

session length: 40 min

European Scout Foundation - how to apply for funds; WOSM (European Scout Foundation)

As a means of raising money, the European Scout Foundation developed the Friends of Scouting in Europe (FOSE). Through this initiative, the ESF is aiming to enable its members to demonstrate their support for the ideals and aspirations of Scouting, by contributing financially to the Movement’s growth in Europe.

During the last triennium, the ESF has reviewed, with the help of WOSM services, the grants approach by reviewing and redefining funding criteria as well as implementing the use of WSB Grants Management system (Fluxx).

During this practical workshop we invite MOs to come and (re)discover the small project funding of ESF.

session length: 40 min

Official closing of the 17th European Scout and Guide Conference.