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 | 73,000 | ||
Federal Commissioner | Nathalie Flama | ||
Federal Chairman | Jean-Luc Angélis | ||
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Website uigse-fse | |||
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 73 member associations in 17 European countries and also in the Americas, serving roughly 73,000 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.