{{Infobox WorldScouting , image = Vajdasági Magyar Cserkészszövetség.png , image-size= , caption = , type = section , name = Vajdasági Magyar Cserkészszövetség , headquarters = Horgoš, Serbia , country = Serbia , f-date = 5 May 1992 , chiefscout = István Bacskulin , founder = , members = , chiefscouttitle = Executive manager , website
Website of the Hungarian Scout Association in Vojvodina
The Hungarian Scout Association in Vojvodina ( hu, Vajdasági Magyar Cserkészszövetség, VMCSSZ) is the

Scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...

organization of the Hungarians in Vojvodina, Serbia. Currently, there are 37 Scout groups operating in 5 districts.

History

The whole of the Hungarian Scouting started bound to Nagybecskerek (now Zrenjanin), where, in 1910, a 134-page study was published on the English Scouting in the bulletin of the local grammar school. After this study, Scout groups started to form throughout the Kingdom of Hungary. This momentum was broken by the Treaty of Trianon, as the Hungarian Scout groups in Vojvodina (then Yugoslavia) had to continue their work isolated from and without co-ordination with the Scout groups remaining in Hungary and other territories detached from the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1928, the Scout Association of Yugoslavia was founded and Hungarian Scouts could work in its frame-work. In 1941, after the re-capture of Vojvodina by Hungary, the Scout movement gained a new a momentum re-integrated into the

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. At the end of World War II, the southern territories of Hungary were seized again by Yugoslavia and with the advance of communist regime scouting was disbanded. Hungarian Scouting in Vojvodina began to re-organize in 1988. On 5 May 1992, the Yugoslav Ministry of Interior approved the public work of the Hungarian Scout Association in Vojvodina.

External links

Official website of the Hungarian Scout Association in Vojvodina
Scouting and Guiding in Serbia 1992 establishments in Serbia