Project
What is this project all about?
In 2014, the ScoutingTrain will depart from Berlin with international project teams on board, heading for Irkutsk with stops in Poland, Belarus, and Moscow.
400 scouts and guides will travel on the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway and be an active part of an international educational project. This journey will take us to a scout camp at Lake Baikal. There we will explore the area together, work on our projects, and interact with the locals, thus supporting an on-going dialogue between different nations and experiencing a modern and very international rediscovery of the joys of scouting.
It must be said, however, that the ’ScoutingTrain’ is much more than just a train journey. A train? Yes. With carriages? Yes. But while the engine is making the train move, the real driving forces for this journey are building steam inside the carriages! This is where our conductors and their passengers are. The conductors, having developed a number of projects throughout the year, by way of Conductors’ Academies, where they meet their teams and mentors, called ’switchmen’, and create the concept of their carriage. They arrange their meetings to allow all the passengers of each carriage get to know each other prior to the journey. This way the conductors become true ambassadors of our idea.
Each carriage tells its own story and together we
are creating an even bigger narrative
Let us introduce our carriages:
- YOUROPE - Youth in Scouting, boundless! | http://yourope.scoutingtrain.org
- Young people in Europe and what connects us.
- Orkestar | http://orkestar.scoutingtrain.org
- Music knows no borders! Meet our ScoutingTrain Orchestra and its international team.
- Your Opportunity | http://opportunity.scoutingtrain.org
- Use your opportunities! Videos about the opportunities to shape your own future.
- Time Travel | http://timetravel.scoutingtrain.org
- A journey in space and time! How does the history of our ancestors influence us?
- Tradition & Modernity | http://traditionmodernity.scoutingtrain.org
- Make new out of old! How we can use traditions in modern times.
- Green Energy | http://greenenergy.scoutingtrain.org
- We only have one world! How can we protect it and leave it a little bit better than we found it?
- Lights of Happiness | http://happiness.scoutingtrain.org
- Peace and Happiness! What happiness means and where we can find it.
- Kon-nection | http://konnection.scoutingtrain.org
- There is only one language for animal lovers. Let’s overcome language barriers and distances on the back of a horse.
- Once a Scout - Always a Scout | http://foundation.scoutingtrain.org
- Lifelong scouting! Opportunities you have once you’ve grown out of the target group.
- Project group ‘Moscow city game’ | http://citygame.scoutingtrain.org
- Our journey begins with a mutual game in Moscow and that means a four day treasure hunt through the city!
With this project, we hope to write our page in the history of European integration and mutual development and there will be plenty of stories to tell! This is why we are going to meet again in Berlin on 9 November 2014, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We want to show the public that the stories that make up Europe’s history are still being told and will be told in the future.
On 9 November, we will meet again, exactly where the
journey began.
In Berlin. Again, we’ll tell our stories, but this time our
audience will be the citizens of the German capital. 25 years
earlier, people here celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall and on
the anniversary we will celebrate the fact that we took part in
making other walls fall - those in people’s minds.
What is the project goal and who is the project for?
More than just a train journey - why Lake Baikal is not the end of the journey
For our project to change Europe, it is not enough to
take the train and travel to Lake Baikal. We want to
develop and communicate as many different aspects of successful
youth work as possible. We want to enable many people to organise
similar follow-up projects and to remember how they did it on the
ScoutingTrain. We pass the contacts and necessary tools to the
conductors and in doing so enable them to share their excitement
about this kind of project with others.
Our message is: We want to use the unique memories of
the ScoutingTrain journey and capture them in pictures in order to
promote the following ideas
- International youth work can bring down barriers[*]Thanks to the culture of the journey and the camp, as well as the international scouting culture, young people and especially scouts and guides meet all requirements to do this [*]It has been 25 years since the Berlin Wall ceased to be and with our project we want to destroy the walls left in people’s minds
Our conductor teams are being supported and supervised by the
switchmen, mentors and coaches throughout the year.
Why would you support this project?
Although the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, there are still walls in people’s minds. Together, we can tear them down!
- Fire up the engine so that we can move forward with the project! Even a little donation will keep the train going![*]With our project, we are playing our part in building a network of young Europeans – and to do it we need your help! Together we can encourage and develop mutual understanding between the cultures.[*]Fire up!! With the recent political developments, we feel that our goal is even more important and hope that we can spread our message.
Your donation helps young people from East and West to get to know each other! We are fostering the civil society!
How will we use the money if the project is successfully funded?
- To enable 100 project leaders to go to Russia this summer and promote our idea there, we need to hit a target of EUR 100.000.[*]If, together, we manage to raise EUR 800.000, we can take 400 scouts and guides to Lake Baikal and tell our stories to the people we meet on the way and at our destination. Every passenger will have to pay for their journey to Moscow and their flight back home from Lake Baikal.[*]Our aim is to raise EUR 1.300.000.With this funding we can meet in Berlin in November to celebrate the anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall and tell our story to the people of Germany. This sum will enable us to travel to Moscow together and cover our flights home.
Participants’ contribution:
Everyone who will join us on the journey in summer will have to pay
a contribution of EUR 500.Travel expenses for the
journey to Moscow and the flights back will be in addition to this
if higher fund-raising target is not met.
What happened so far:
We managed to organize two conductor academies already: one in
november 2013 and one in february 2014. This two meetings were
founded by the Stiftung Pfadfinden, the Foundation of
German-Russian Youth Exchange and the foundation Avec et pout
autres.
Find more informations about our finance structure here: http://www.scoutingtrain.org
Who are the people behind the project?
Executive Board |
http://www.scoutingtrain.org/initiators/the-international-executive-board.html
We are volunteer scouts and guides from Bund der Pfadfinderinnen
und Pfadfinder e.V. and we are an inter-confessional youth
association that together with confessional associations (such as
Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg (DPSG), Pfadfinderinnenschaft
Sankt Georg (PSG), and Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und
Pfadfinder (VCP)), are a member both in the German Federal Youth
Association and world organisations of scouts and guides.
YOUROPE |
http://www.scoutingtrain.org/yourope/yourope-youth-in-scouting-boundless.html
Together with you we are "YOUROPE – Youth in Scouting,
boundless!" ...and we want to explore YOUTH in EUROPE!
Europe has gone far as a united community of peoples that have
grown together and scaled down borders. This should go even further
for the future generations when it comes to connecting to each
other and tearing down mental walls!
Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (BdP) e.V.
(German Association of Guides and Scouts) | http://www.pfadfinden.de/en/about-the-bdp
It is our belief that scouting is a demanding activity that
promotes personal development of an individual. Sport, arts and
crafts, and music go hand in hand with life in the great outdoors,
interaction with the social environment and meeting children and
youngsters from other countries. This scope of activities offers
every member a chance both to use their knowledge and skills and to
learn from others and expand their horizon. Life in a group helps
to develop social behaviour, cooperation, tolerance, readiness to
help, taking responsibility, mutual decision-making and activity.
Most of the funds required for this work are covered by members’
contributions and donations. On top of these, BdP receives
appropriated public funds within youth policy funding schemes. In
1998, ‘Stiftung Pfadfinden’ (Scouting Foundation) was founded
in order to support innovative projects.
What is the funding threshold?
Project updates
05/06/2014
Pfadfinden,
die weltweit erfolgreichste
Kaderschmiede für Manager
Die Stiftung "Avec et pour Autres" hat uns mit 70.000 EUR unterstützt um die Idee von Mentoren in den ScoutingTrain zu tragen: die WeichenstellerInnen!
Ein Team von 11 MentorInnen gibt sein Wissen in Form von Erfahrung und Ratschlägen an die SchaffnerInnen der Waggons weiter. So helfen sie den jungen Waggonmanagern dieses Herausfordernde Projekt zu bewältigen!
Mehr lesen: ► http://bit.ly/switchteam
05/06/2014
Scouting,
the world's largest
leadership development
programme
The foundation "Avec et pour Autres" gave 70.000 EUR to the ScoutingTrain 2014 to install a mentoring programme in this project: the switch team!
A team of 11 switchmen (and woman) is supporting the conductors and conductresses to do their job! With life experience and experience in various things they try to transfer their knowledge to the conductors and conductresses!
04/09/2014
20% of the funding threshold accomplished! Since the beginning of the ScoutingTrain last year, the scouting foundation (Stiftung Pfadfinden) has been collecting funds for the project. Many people have supported us with their donation: Until today, 17. 000 EUR have been gathered which we just involved in the campaign. Now we want to say thank you! ► Who supported us so far? http://bit.ly/scoutingtrain-donations ► Scouting Foundation: http://www.stiftungpfadfinden.de
04/09/2014
20% der Fundingschwelle erreicht!
Seit Start des ScoutingTrain im vergangen Jahr hat die Stiftung Pfadfinden kräftig Spenden für dieses Projekt gesammelt. Viele Leute haben uns seit dem mit einer Spende unterstützt: So sind bis heute 17.000 EUR zusammengekommen, die wir so eben in die Kampagne eingebunden haben!
Dafür sagen wir: Danke!
► Namen des bisherigen Spender: http://bit.ly/scoutingtrain-donations
► Stiftung Pfadfinden: http://www.stiftungpfadfinden.de
