74 Leaders of the Scouts of Europe, coming from 13 European countries, with representatives from the United States and Canada present in Ampezzo on Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21, for the preliminary preparation of the next international gathering of the Federation, scheduled for August 2027 in Carnia.
Two days of work, discussion, and planning to build the international experience, called Eurojam, which from August 1 to 9, 2027, will bring 8,800 scouts and guides belonging to the U.I.G.S.E. – International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe – as well as their leaders and a large number of volunteers, to the heart of the Carnic Alps.
The operational base was Ampezzo, from where the activities of surveying, analyzing, and evaluating the sites that will host the camps and the activities of the gathering began.
Significant was the participation of the Mayors of the Municipalities of Ampezzo and Socchieve, who facilitated hospitality and took part in the planning, discussion, and reflection sessions, making concrete the will of the local communities to be an active part of the project that will deeply involve the territory.
The weekend allowed those responsible for the pedagogical and logistical areas to directly get to know the identified spaces, evaluate the characteristics of the terrain, and deepen the necessary solutions to enhance the territory, transforming it into a great international educational environment.
The program alternated community moments, celebrations—in particular the Sunday Holy Mass celebrated by His Excellency Monsignor Riccardo Lamba, Archbishop of Udine—site visits to the camp areas, and desk work sessions. At the center of the discussion was the definition of the educational, spiritual, and organizational aspects of the Eurojam, from daily camp life to the grand opening and closing ceremonies of the event, from spiritual animation to the materials needed for Leaders and youth. The concluding plenary session allowed participants to share the results of the work and identify the operational objectives to map out the next steps toward the 2027 event.
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“An extremely demanding project” explain General Commissioners Manuela Evangelisti and Paolo Bramini “which we are putting into play to continue to translate into practice the commitment to build that brotherhood among peoples, which is constitutive of our association’s DNA, as the Holy Father also urged us to do during the audience on June 1st, granted for the 50th anniversary of the Association ‘for a Europe not only of business but united by the highest values of Christian humanism’.”
The Italian Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts of Europe (of the European Scouting Federation – FSE) was founded in Rome on April 14, 1976.
Today it has 20,132 members in 183 groups across 61 dioceses. The main objective is to contribute to the religious, moral, and civic education of young people through the scout method, in the spirit of the founder of the movement Lord Baden Powell and in the tradition of Catholic scouting.
The association adheres to the International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe (UIGSE-FSE), founded in 1956 and currently present with 73,000 members in 27 countries in Europe and America, in a scout fraternity beyond national borders.
