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WE Connect replaces EUROPAK
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INFORMATION – From EUROPAK to WE Connect – the new Joint Regional Website (Regional Circular 21 2019)
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EUROPEAN JAMBOREE 2020 – Recruitment of International Service Staff (Joint Communication 05 2019)
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23rd EUROPEAN SCOUT CONFERENCE – Announcing two Crowdcasts in preparation of the Conference (Conference Circular 09)
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RECIRCULATION – FOR REVIEW: Draft Memorandum of Understanding (Joint Communication 04)
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Tag Archives: #Austria
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Dialogue for Peace In Europe, Training and Workshop (Regional Circular 33 2017)
In line with objectives set in the European Regional Scout Plan 2016 – 2019 and following the successful implementation of the Work Plan 2017 “Scouting for Peace” project co-financed by the Council of Europe – European Youth Foundation, the Messenger of Peace Support Fund and in collaboration with KAICIID – The International Dialogue Centre, it was decided to continue the collaboration between the European Scout Region and KAICIID – The International Dialogue Centre in Peace Education and to organise a Training and Workshop under the title “Dialogue for Peace in Europe: Through Intercultural, Interreligious Dialogue and Spiritual Development” at Wassergspreng Scout Centre, near Vienna, Austria, in March 2018.
The “Dialogue for Peace in Europe: Through Intercultural, Interreligious Dialogue and Spiritual Development” aims at:
– Training young leaders willing to support the work of the European Scout Interreligious Forum (ESIF), the Spiriteco Network and the Overture Network as Dialogue for Peace Facilitators, and
– to enhance the Dialogue for Peace manual with reference documents and activities on interreligious and intercultural dialogue and spiritual development.
KAICIID experts will provide the participants with knowledge on human perceptions and misperceptions, cultural identities, the principles of dialogue, and designing and facilitating dialogue.
For further details please refer to Regional Circular 33 2017 and its annexes. The deadline to return the application form and its annexes is 31 January 2018:
Regional Circular 33 2017-Call for Participants: Dialogue for Peace in Europe, Training and Workshop, March 2018 (in English)
Regional Circular 33 2017-Call for Participants: Dialogue for Peace in Europe, Training and Workshop, March 2018(en français)
Regional Circular 33 2017-ANNEX 1: Draft Programme (in English only)
Regional Circular 33 2017-ANNEX 2: Application Form (in English only)
“What are pancakes?” – “Come, let’s cook them together!”
Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (45): a story from Vienna in Austria.
“What are pancakes?” – “Come, let’s cook them together!” This is the kind of dialogue you may have recently heard at the weekly meeting of the “Camelot” Rangers and Rovers (commonly called RaRo, these are Scouts and Guides aged between 16 and 21 years) of Vienna’s 32nd Scout and Guide Group (Vienna 32) in Austria (members of Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs). The pancake cooking activity was part of the programme run by the Rangers and Rovers with and for unaccompanied young refugees in the framework of the #rarofugees project launched by the Vienna Scouts and Guides last winter.
From a Social-Media post to a limited edition Badge: Supporting Refugee Activities
Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (42): a story starting with a facebook-post ending with the production and selling of a limited edition badge “against xenophobia” in Austria (AT)
Not just since last summer the Guides and Scouts in Austria had become more and more active in refugee and migrant support activities in their local communities. Reason enough for Geo, a member of the social-media team of the Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs (PPÖ) and also behind the very successful Facebook page “Kurioses, nutzloses oder einfach interesantes Pfadfinderwissen“, and members of the PPÖ Facebook community to look for ways to support those working with and for refugees and migrants in Austria.
“will/kommen/an/kommen” – because we are engaged in our local community!
Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (14): a story from Styria, Austria:
„Like a number of other regional Scout and Guide Associations in Austria and confronted with the realities of the situation faced by refugees arriving in their country, members of the regional board of Steirische Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen (the Scouts and Guides of Styria, a member of Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs (PPÖ) thought how best Scouts and Guides in Styria could offer their skills, time and material to refugee support activities in their local communities.
While a number of Scouts and Guides quickly joined other volunteers from civil society organisations and contniue to engaged at the main regional refugee welcome centre outside Graz, the capital city of Styria, the regional board called for a meeting with representatives of all Scout and Guide Groups of Styria to discuss which further activities could be envisaged, remembering their promise to ‘leave this world a little better than they found it’.
The result is the new initiative “will/kommen/an/kommen” (welcoming/arriving). ‘With this project we want to express that as Scouts and Guides we are not only here to contribute to prevent that children, young people, women and men who had to leave everything behind are exposed to further hardships as they continue their journey. We are also concerned about how we can best welcome into our local communities those refugee children and young people and their families who have applied for an asylum in our country.’
This is why the Scouts and Guides of Styria started collecting relevant methods and materials for child and youth work, plan expert led workshops and trainings for the Scout and Guide Leaders, and organise children’s game afternoons, to name but a few examples through which the association wants to underline its intention to live to the project’s motto ‘will/kommen/an/kommen’.”
If you are involved in a similar refugee support activity, let us know and we will share it, too!
We want to see these children smile and laugh again!
Scouts and Guides contributing to refugee support activities in their local communities in Europe (10): a story from Klagenfurt, Austria:
“We just wanted to make these children smile and laugh again”, says Monika, from the Kärtner Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen (the Association of Scouts and Guides of Carinthia, a member of Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs).
“That’s why we have joined a group of other volunteers from different local community organisations, including Caritas Kärnten, the Hilfswerk Kärnten and the Carinthian branch of the Muslimische Jugend Österreichs.”
“We are happy that Scouts, Guides and Leaders from different Carinthian Scout and Guide Groups make available their time, enthusiasm and skills running regular afternoons of playing, drawing, and other activities with children and young people of refugee families in one of the refuges centres in Klagenfurt, capital city of Carinthia.”
If you are involved in a similar refugee support activity, let us know and we will share it, too!
