The Federação Escotista de Portugal (also ''Federação Escutista de Portugal''; FEP, ''Scouting Federation of Portugal'') is the national

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federation of

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. Scouting in Portugal started in 1911 and was among the founders of the

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in 1922. The present federation was founded in 1928. It serves 77,352 members of both sexes (as of 2022). When Portuguese Scouting started in 1911, many associations appeared, however, only two of them survived: ''União dos Adueiros de Portugal'' (which became extinct in 1930) and the '' Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal'' (AEP), still operational. The '' Corpo Nacional de Escutas - Escutismo Católico Português'' (CNE) is another Scouting organization that is active today. It was founded in 1923, and is sponsored by the

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. Today, there are also some organizations besides the CNE and the AEP, like the

Associação Guias de Portugal The Associação Guias de Portugal (AGP; roughly ''Guide Association of Portugal'') is the national Guiding association of Portugal. Guiding in Portugal started in 1919 and became a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ( ...

(AGP), but they are not members of the federation. The federation was host of RoverWay 2003, a joint event of the European Scout Region and the WAGGGS-Europe Region.

Members

The federation has two members: * Associação dos Escoteiros de Portugal (AEP, ''Scout Association of Portugal''; interreligious, 13,000 members, coeducational) * Corpo Nacional de Escutas (CNE, ''National Scout Corps'';

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, 64,000 members, coeducational) Note: The word ''Scouting'' has two different spellings in Portuguese: ''Escotismo'' is used by the AEP, ''Escutismo'' by the CNE.

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Official homepage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Federacao Escutista de Portugal World Organization of the Scout Movement member organizations Scouting and Guiding in Portugal Youth organizations established in 1928 1928 establishments in Portugal

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