The ''Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori ed Esploratrici Italiani'' (translation: National Corp of Italian Scouts and Guides, CNGEI) is a
coeducational
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
and non-denominational
Scouting
Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth social movement, movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the twentieth century. It follows the Scout method of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activi ...
and
Guiding association in
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
.
CNGEI was founded by Carlo Colombo (1869–1918), a Piedmontese doctor, as a male-only organization in 1913 and integrated the female ''Unione delle Giovinette Esploratrici Italiane'' (UNGEI) in 1976. It is the oldest among Italian Scout associations and the third by membership, with about 13,500 members.
Along with the 184,000-strong ''
Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani
The ''Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani'' (, AGESCI) is a Catholic Scouting and Guiding association in Italy. It is coeducational and, as of 2024, has 182,000 members, including 33,454 leaders (of whom 1,947 priests), 1,885 local ...
'' (AGESCI), CNGEI forms the
Italian Scout Federation
The Italian Scout Federation (FIS, ''Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo'') is the national Scouting and Guiding federation of Italy. Scouting and Guiding in Italy started in 1910, the Boy Scouts were among the charter members of the World Or ...
(FIS), Italy's national member of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest and, after the Order of World Scouts (formed in 1911), is the second-oldest international organization in the Scout Movement, having been established in 1922. It has 176 members. ...
(WOSM) and the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS ) is a global association that supports Girl Guides, female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 153 countries. It was established in the year 1928 in Parád, H ...
(WAGGGS). CNGEI, whose guiding principles are "secularity" (i.e. "independen
efrom any religious creed and political ideologies"), "co-education", "associative democracy", "adult choice" and "civil commitment", aims at "educating the good citizen: a citizen capable of taking autonomous and responsible choices;
citizen who ispersonally active in promoting solidarity, universal rights, peace, environment protection; a citizen who follows a personal spiritual path oriented at giving a sense to his/her life".
See also
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Scouting and Guiding in Italy
Scouting and Guiding in Italy consists of several associations and federations, including more than 225,000 male Scouts and female Guides.
Next to Germany, France and Russia, Italy is the country with the most fragmented Scout movement, but it ...
References
External links
Official websiteThe CNGEI uniforms: for terrestrial and sea sections
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations
World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations
Scouting and Guiding in Italy
Youth organizations established in 1913
1913 establishments in Italy
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