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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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Category Archives: News
WAGGGS Communication – Make 22nd September International Girls Day
A global campaign to make 22 September the International Day of the Girl gains momentum. ON 22nd September 2011, MEP Edite Estrela, Vice Chair of the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality committee in the European Parliament, together with four other MEPs launched a Written Declaration in the European Parliament calling on the EU to support this initiative when it is presented to the United Nations next month and voted on in December.
WAGGGS is supporting this campaign at global level, and at European level, in co-operation with Plan International and the European Parliamentary Forum on Development we took part in the European Week of Action for Girls in the European Parliament when the Written Declaration was launched. We believe an International day of the Girl will focus the world’s attention on the importance of girls’ rights, the inequalities girls face and opportunities to raise awareness to ensure that girls get the investment and recognition they deserve as citizens and as powerful agents of change within their own families, communities and nations. However a majority of MEPs must sign the Written Declaration for it to come into effect, and we would like to request your assistance in contacting MEPs you feel may be sympathetic to signing the Written Declaration, particularly those with whom you already have some contact, to seek their support.
To help the process, please find here a template letter explaining the reasons why it is important to have an International Day of the Girl which you can send to request their support. Also attached is the text of the Written Declaration (which is also available in all 27 EU languages here) to enclose with the letter. You can find a list of MEPS by country and their contact details here and you can check who has already signed the declaration here.
We do hope you will be able to support this initiative.
Please contact the Europe Office at if you have any questions, to let us know about any action you decide to take and any reply you receive.
Young European 2012
The Schwarzkopf-foundation is looking for young people from Europe between the ages of 18 and 26 who are imaginative and active in an honorary capacity engaged for the European understanding and integration. Young people prepared to grasp the opportunities of our time in forging peaceful coexistence in a Europe of diversity.
Each year with this prize the Schwarzkopf Foundation rewards a young European for his/her outstanding commitment to fostering international understanding and the union of Europe. At the same time we want to encourage and motivate these young people to continue to champion these ideals.
The sum donated for the prize is € 5.000. This amount is intended to finance a six-month internship with a Member of the European Parliament or another European institution. It is also possible to use the sum to finance a project which promotes European integration. Such a project must further the aims of the Schwarzkopf Foundation and receive the agreement of the Foundation’s Management board in order to be accepted.
The award-winner will be chosen by a jury of personalities from the European Youth Parliament, the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Schwarzkopf Young Europe Foundation.
Deadline for entries: 30 October 2011
Want to find out more? and/or nominate a young person who fits the bill please follow this link
Rain fails to dampen Volunteering event
It may have been raining in Brussels last week but this didn’t dampen the spirits of the Guide and Scout volunteers taking part in the European Youth Forum Convention on Volunteering, taking place between 7 and 10 September in the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Parliament.
Guide and Scout volunteers taliking with HRH the Princess Mathilde of Belgium
The Convention was organised against the background of the European Year of Volunteering, bringing together volunteers, youth and other civil society organisations including WAGGGS and WOSM, to discuss a rights-based approach to volunteering and to develop a common declaration on the Rights of the Volunteer. WAGGGS took part in the opening plenary, outlining some of the issues faced by volunteers active in Guiding and Scouting, such as lack of time for voluntary activities or the need for better recognition of skills and competences gained through volunteering.
For the second part of the convention, YFJ member organisations and other organisations interested in volunteering took over the esplanade in front of the European Parliament to build a Volunteer Village, with stands displaying information and organising workshops on different aspects of volunteering. Following the opening of the V-Village on 8 September, we were honoured by HRH the Princess Mathilde of Belgium, as well as representatives of the European Commission the following day, when they visited the village. WAGGGS and WOSM joined together with Guiding and Scouting in Belgium to present the Guide and Scout path to volunteering, where participants could learn and experience the different voluntary activities and responsibilities of Guide and Scout leaders. WAGGGS and WOSM also organised workshops on the recognition of skills and competences gained through volunteering, recruiting and retaining volunteer leaders, the contribution of volunteering to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and on the OECD Better Life Initiative, organised by WOSM together with the OECD.
WAGGGS and WOSM also organised workshops on the recognition of skills and competences gained through volunteering, recruiting and retaining volunteer leaders, the contribution of volunteering to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Through these different activities at thie Convention, we were able to make the voice of Guiding and Scouting heard at this landmark event to celebrate the European Year of Volunteering!
Roverway 2012 infoletter
The 4th issue of the Roverway 2012 infoletter, prepared by Roverway planning team only for you, is now available. Find out more about the Roverway representatives meeting, the Roverway promotion at the 22nd World Scout Jamboree, registration and the Tribe leaders meeting in September…
New Europak website
It is now two and a half years since we presented the new Europak website with the aim to improve this key communication tool between the Europe Region WAGGGS and the European Scout Region and our MOs/NSOs. With this experience and following new trends in today’s information technology as well as some suggestions received at workshops during the 13th European Scout Conference we have started some reorganisation of the website and the way information is presented and distributed to subscribers of <Europak Online>.
