1. CED 711 International Scouting

2. World Crest
The World Crest is an emblem of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). It represents the world brotherhood of Scouting and has been worn by an estimated 250 million members since the Scouting movement was founded in 1907.
It is still worn by 28 million Scouts in 216 countries and territories and is one of the world's best-known symbols.
Scouts and members of the public often ask how the emblem originated. Lord Baden-Powell himself gave the answer: "Our badge we took from the 'North Point' used on maps for orienteering." Lady Baden-Powell said later, "It shows the true way to go." The emblem's symbolism helps to remind Scouts to be as true and reliable as a compass in keeping to their Scouting ideals and showing others the way.
The crest is designed with a center motif encircled by a rope tied with a reef or square knot, which symbolizes the unity and brotherhood of the movement throughout the world. Even as one cannot undo a reef knot no matter how hard one pulls on it, so, as it expands, the movement remains united.
The three tips of the center fleur-de-lis represent the three points of the Scout Promise. In some countries, the two decorative five-pointed stars stand for truth and knowledge.
The crest is white on a royal purple background. These colors are symbolic as well. In heraldry, white represents purity and royal purple denotes leadership and help given to other people.
The World Crest is an emblem of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and is authorized for wear on the uniform of all member associations as a symbol of membership in a world brotherhood. It is authorized by the Boy Scouts of America to be worn by all adult and youth members as a permanent patch centered horizontally over the left pocket and vertically between the left shoulder seam and the top of the pocket.
The BSA donates a small portion of the proceeds from each patch sold to the World Scout Foundation to assist with the development of Scouting's emerging nations.

3. WOSM
The World Organization of the Scout Movement is a federation of more than 160 recognized national Scout organizations. It is composed of three parts:
The World Scout Conference
The World Scout Committee
The World Scout Bureau
The World Scout Conference is the general assembly of Scouting and is composed of six delegates from each of the 160 member Scout associations. The basis for recognition and membership in the WSC includes adherence to the aims and principles of world Scouting and independence from political involvement on the part of each member association. The Boy Scouts of America is a charter member and active participant. The conference meets every three years. The BSA has hosted it twice.
The World Scout Committee is the executive body of the conference that represents the conference between regular meetings of the full conference. There are 12 members of the committee, elected without regard to nationality for a six-year term.
The World Scout Bureau ( ) is the secretariat that carries out the instructions of the World Scout Conference and the World Scout Committee. The World Scout Bureau office is in Geneva, Switzerland, with regional offices in six areas around the world: Africa Region (Nairobi, Kenya), Arab Region (Cairo, Egypt), Asia-Pacific Region (Manila, Philippines), European Region (Geneva, Switzerland), Inter-American Region (Santiago, Chile), and Eurasia Region (Yalta-Gurzuj, Ukraine). The small bureau staff helps associations improve and broaden their Scouting by training professionals and volunteers, establishing sound financial policies and money-raising techniques, improving community facilities and procedures, and assisting in marshaling the national resources of each country behind Scouting. The staff also helps arrange global events such as world jamborees, encourages regional events, and acts as a liaison between the Scouting movement and other international organizations. A major effort in the emerging nations is the extension of the universal Good Turn into an organization wide effort for community development.

4. BSA International Division
The Boy Scouts of America is represented in world contacts and developments by the International Commissioner. The international efforts of the BSA are supported by the International Committee, one of the operating committees of the National Executive Board, and the staff of the International Department at the national office.
Through the BSA's International Department, American Scouts and international Scouts are provided a common resource of programs, funding, and training that increases and enhances their experience in the brotherhood of Scouting.

5. Support for World Scouting
The Boy Scouts of America and its International Department have made possible several avenues of financial support of the World Scouting movement. Those avenues include the following:
World Friendship Fund
National Boy Scouts of America Foundation
Baden-Powell World Fellowship
Order of the Condor
The World Friendship Fund of the BSA offers a practical Good Turn opportunity for BSA youth members and leaders. Cash contributions are used to assist Scouting through the World Organization of the Scout Movement and through national Scout associations in developing countries. Tax-deductible contributions can be from individuals, units, camp, and training course groups. Unit participation in the World Friendship Fund offers a unique annual service project to benefit brother Scouts around the world.
The United States Fund for International Scouting (USFIS), within the National Boy Scouts of America Foundation, provides the opportunity for substantial support of World Scouting by individual business, corporate, and foundation grants. This fund is administered by an appointed committee of the BSA International Committee. The National Boy Scouts of America Foundation has full tax privileges and is not a private foundation.
Provision is made for trust and endowed instruments as well as current support of special Scouting projects around the world. Grant proposals from Scout associations around the world are received and reviewed for disposition by a volunteer committee.
The Baden-Powell World Fellowship is a major program of the World Scout Foundation to establish an endowment fund for ongoing support of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the United States Fund for International Scouting. Membership is open to individual men and women throughout the world. Each member receives a special medallion, certificate, and lapel pin in recognition.
Order of the Condor is an endowment recognition program of the Inter-American Scout Foundation for individuals. Income from the fund is used to help support work of the Inter-American Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. The region serves member Scouting associations of all nations in the Western Hemisphere.

6. Awards & Recognition
Several uniform insignia and awards are available to show a Scout's involvement in international Scouting:
Insignia
World Crest
International Activity patch
Interpreter strips
Citizenship in the World Merit Badge
Awards
World Conservation Award
International Scouter's Award
An emblem of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, the World Crest may be worn by all registered youth members and adult leaders as a symbol of their membership in a worldwide Scouting brotherhood. A small amount from the sale of each emblem is sent to the World Scout Foundation to help extend Scouting in developing nations throughout the world. This adds an opportunity for each Scout to personally share indirectly in the activities of brother Scouts in other lands.
Over the years, each member national Scout organization has made use of the badge in a different manner. In 1988 the World Organization of the Scout Movement requested that every national Scout association authorize this emblem to be worn by all members to signify membership in a worldwide movement.
The emblem is worn as a permanent patch centered horizontally over the left pocket and vertically between the left shoulder seam and the top of the pocket.
For youth and adult leaders, the International Activity patch is worn as a temporary patch centered on the right uniform pocket. Specific requirements are developed by the local council or its districts with council approval.
A Scout wearing the interpreter strip must be able to carry on a conversation in a foreign language or in sign language, write a letter in the foreign language (not required for signing), and translate orally and in writing from one language to another.
Scouts are eligible to receive the World Conservation Award after completing the requirements for the following merit badges: Environmental Science, Citizenship in the World, and either Soil and Water Conservation or Fish and Wildlife Management.

7. Program Opportunities
The International Department sponsors varied programs throughout the year that are geared to enhancing the international Scouting experience for participants. Included are such programs as:
International Camp Staff program
European Camp Staff program
Jamboree-on-the-Air
Jamboree-on-the-Internet
World Scout Jamboree
Other International Events
The International Camp Staff program provides Scouters from other nations, ages 18 through 30, to serve as international camp counselors and instructors in BSA camps and day camps. The council pays a fee to the Boy Scouts of America and provides a salary and camp room and board for the counselor/instructor.
The European Camp Staff program is operated by the European Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Members of the Boy Scouts of America, ages 18 through 30, are given opportunity to serve as counselors and instructors in European Region Scout camps and training centers. The counselor pays for personal roundtrip air transportation. Room and board are provided in camp in addition to accident and illness insurance.
Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA) is a worldwide annual Scouting ham radio event sponsored by the World Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and held the third weekend in October.
Jamboree-on-the-Internet(JOTI) is an annual Scouting event sponsored by the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. This event utilizes computers and the Internet.
World Scout Jamborees, held every four years, bring Scouts from throughout the world together in a large international encampment, under sponsorship of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. The BSA organizes provisional troops in each of its regions. Information and applications are available from local councils. Registration for the World Scout Jamboree must be made through your local council.
Other international events, such as encampments, jamborees, and jamborettes are held in various other countries each year. A list of international events is available from the World Organization of the Scout Movement (

8. Services
On behalf of the International Commissioner and Chief Scout Executive, the International Department of the BSA maintains communications with the World Organization of the Scout Movement and other national Scouting organizations. Their purpose is to provide American and international Scouts opportunities for a broad Scouting experience via your local council’s
International Representative.
This site lists a number of resources available from the National Council.
These include
Services offered
Programs available
Information sheets
Applications and forms
Newsletters

9. Services (cont’d)
Always check first with your own District International Scouting Committee Representative or your local council’s International Representative for information and clearance prior to planning any type of international Scouting activity. They are your free resource to best practices, international contacts and cost considerations.
In cooperation with the council leadership, each council has an International Representative who sets up a communications and an organizational plan that will make it possible to keep the council membership informed of the opportunities for program enrichment in the area of international Scouting. The International Representative is the head of the council’s Committee on International Scouting. Each district should have at least one representative on their local council’s Committee on International Scouting. District International Committee Representatives in turn provide information and resources at District Round Table and other district events.

10. Services (Cont’d) Among the many services provided are:
International Scouting Resources and Opportunities
International Camp Staff Opportunities
International Host Opportunities
International Letter of Introduction
International Travel Advisories
International training & conferences
Direct Service Center
International Scouting events around the world are tracked by the International Representative and Committee on International Scouting in your council. They can be a huge resource for events which are already planned and must be contacted prior to units making their own plans to travel outside the U.S.
Each year, Scouts from the U.S. serve on Scout camp staffs in other countries. Scouts from other countries also come to the U.S. to serve on our camp staffs. They need host families to make sure their stay is fun-filled and safe. Much preparation is needed to make sure their transition to and from the states goes smoothly. Host families make sure international Scouts have a home base for any needed “down time” and an opportunity to experience the local sights and culture.
An international letter of introduction is a document of the World Organization of the Scout Movement identifying Scouts and leaders who travel abroad, individually or in groups, as registered members of the Boy Scouts of America.
Up to date travel advisories regarding destination countries or countries in which connecting travel must be made is important. Information on both political and Scouting related issues is available.
International training seminars and conferences for council international representatives and others interested in international Scouting are conducted periodically at national meetings and at the Philmont Training Center in New Mexico. Visit the Philmont Training Center Web Site for updated information on scheduled events.
The Direct Service Center, administered by the International Department, serves more than 5,000 American youth throughout the world who are members of diplomatic, military, and multinational corporation families, as well as others living abroad. Council emblems, unit program resources, and supplies are available to overseas units from the International Department.

11. Visiting Gilwell Park?
Gilwell Park near London, England is the home of Wood Badge and Troop 1.
All Wood Badge holders around the world are members of Troop 1.
Plan on visiting or even staying at the White House where you can enjoy refreshments with your fellow Wood Badgers and Troop 1 friends.
Serve on the Gilwell Park camp staff. 
Gilwell Park - near London, England - is the home of Wood Badge. Gilwell Park is considered one of the three great international Scouting centers, supporting an active camping program for Scouts and training for adult leaders. Visitors are welcome.
Scouters with Wood Badge training are encouraged to register as an official Troop 1 member. The Troop 1 website has all the details on where Gilwell is located, along with driving directions, photos of the White House, and more! You can see where the BSA Buffalo stands across from the new "Purple Rose Garden," and can also check out the history of Gilwell Park.
Include a visit to Gilwell Park if you are going to London, and stay in the historical White House surrounded with paintings by Scouting's premier artist, Ernest Carlos. Plan on visiting the Troop 1 Room and enjoy refreshments among your Scouting Wood Badge, Troop 1 friends.

12. Also in England
Baden-Powell House, London, England, operated by the Scout Association of the United Kingdom, offers lodging and meals.
Brown Sea Island, in Poole Harbour, near Dorset, England, the site of B.P.’s first experimental scout camp, offers limited indoor and campsite facilities.
Baden-Powell House is a popular destination in London for scouts from all over the world. It houses a small museum that tells the story of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout and Guides movement. The building that houses the museum also serves as a budget hostel and scout activity center.
Opened in 2007, Baden-Powell Outdoor Centre on the south-west corner of Brown Sea Island provides 50 acres of camping and indoor hostel accommodation for up to 24 people in South Shore Lodge. In addition to toilets, showers and amenities, there is a new Scout & Guide Trading Post and Heritage Centre, staffed daily by volunteers.
daily by volunteers.

13. Kandersteg Scout Centre
The Kandersteg International Scout Centre in Switzerland is open year round to Scout units from all over the world.
Lord Robert Baden-Powell established Kandersteg in 1923 as a place where Scouts from all over the world could meet. Summer in Kandersteg is often described as a permanent mini-Jamboree, and with good reason. Where else could you share an early morning breakfast with Italian Scouts, before heading off on a hike to a Swiss Alpine Cheesery with German and Spanish Scouts, and finish the day at a huge International Campfire with Scouts and Guides from all over the world?

14. Upcoming International Events
57th Jamboree on the Air/18th Jamboree on the Internet - October 17-18, 2015
every year – 3rd week in October
23rd World Jamboree in Japan
July 28 to August 8
24th World Jamboree – July 2019 in the United States
Summit Bechtel Reserve
NOTE: the Presenter needs to update the calendar for the events upcoming for your college.
Jamboree-On-The-Air (JOTA) and Jamboree-On-The-Internet (JOTI) are events that allow Scouts from all over the world to meet, even though they might not be in the same geographical location. For JOTA, participants use Amateur Radio and for JOTI they use the Internet. JOTA-JOTI is an annual event that takes place the third weekend of October, from midnight Friday to midnight Sunday (48 hours). As it starts at midnight local time, it actually last even longer than 48 hours counting from when the first time zone joins to the last. The first JOTA took place in 1958 and the first JOTI in The next JOTA-JOTI will take place October Scouts of any age can participate in JOTA-JOTI. The radio stations for JOTA are operated by licensed amateur radio operators. Jamboree-On-The-Air (JOTA) and Jamboree-On-The-Internet (JOTI) are events that allow Scouts from all over the world to meet, even though they might not be in the same geographical location. For JOTA, participants use Amateur Radio and for JOTI they use the Internet.
The World Scout Jamboree is an official educational event of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. It is specifically designed for young people aged between 14 and 18 from National Scout Organizations which are members of WOSM.

15. 2019 World Jamboree
More than 35,000 Scouts from around the world are coming to America.
The 2019 World Scout Jamboree will be held at The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia and will be hosted by the Boy Scouts of America, Scouts Canada and the Scout Association of Mexico.
Scouts from every corner of the world will soon have the experience of a lifetime at The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia. The bid to host the 2019 World Scout Jamboree is a combined effort of the Boy Scouts of America, Scouts Canada, and the Scout Association of Mexico. This will be the first time the World Scout Jamboree has been held in the United States in more than 40 years.

16. World Brotherhood
“If it be your will, let us go forth fully determined that we will develop among ourselves and our boys that comradeship, through the world wide spirit of the Scout brotherhood, so that we may help to develop peace and happiness in the world and goodwill among men".
Baden Powell at the First World Scout Jamboree

17. Resources for International Scouting
World Organization of the Scouting Movement scout.org
2015 World Jamboree
Kanderstag
Jamboree on the Air
World Friendship Fund
Gilwell Park 1stgilwellpark.org
These are by no means the only websites available to you as a resource for International Scouting, however these can give you enough information to get started. Keep in mind, each country within Scouting also has at least one Scout association and typically a corresponding website. For more information, check with your District International Committee Representative or your council’s International Representative.