With 38 million members, the Scouts and Guides are the world's largest international children's and youth movement, whose members call for international understanding on all continents and continents.

• Scouts are a youth movement,
• whose members are at home in all continents and cultures and call for international understanding,
• whose youth leaders are active on a voluntary basis in the field of extracurricular youth work,
• which recognises environmental education as an educational focus and encourages responsible behaviour in the environment,
• which has a democratic structure and is committed to a free, democratic social order,
• which is interdenominational but regards religion as a basis for education,
• which is non-partisan but advocates the active socio-political engagement of its members,
• which is committed to active peace education,
• which wants to help educate young people to become responsible personalities and responsible citizens.