Associazione Italiana Guide e Scouts d'Europa Cattolici

The Associazione Italiana Guide e Scouts d'Europa Cattolici (translation: Italian Association Catholic Guides and Scouts of Europe), also referred to as Scouts d'Europa - FSE, is a Catholic Scouting and Guiding association in Italy, formed in 1976.

Associazione Italiana Guide e Scouts d'Europa Cattolici
Founded	1976
Membership	20,132
President	Franco Caldato
Vice President	Marisa Licursi
Scout Commissioner General	Paolo Bramini
Guide Commissioner General	Manuela Evangelisti
Ecclesiastical Assistant	Don Stefano Zeni
Affiliation	International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe
Website https://fse.it
Scouting portal

In 1974 the Associazione Scouts Cattolici Italiani (ASCI, established in 1916) and the Associazione Guide Italiane (AGI, established in 1943), the main Catholic male and female associations, were merged into the co-educational Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani (AGESCI). Two years later, some AGESCI groups and individual members, along with some ASCI and AGI leaders who had disagreed with the merger (and, above all, opposed the principle of coeducation) and had refused to join AGESCI, formed the Associazione Italiana Guide e Scouts d'Europa Cattolici (Scouts d'Europa - FSE).^[1]

As of 2024, AIGSEC included 20,132 members, 183 local groups and 1,276 units,^[2] making it the second-largest organisation of that kind in the country, second only to AGESCI. The Scouts d'Europa - FSE, is also the second-largest member of the International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe - European Scouting Federation (UIGSE–FSE).^[3]