National Jamboree 2014

Scout Center Schachen on the Swabian Alb

August 6th to 15th, 2014

General information

• About 3400 teenagers and staff from Germany as well as international troops

• Participants are scouts of both gender aged ca. 13 – 21

Scout Center Schachen

„Schachen“ is a camping ground belonging to the VCP Württemberg (a regional branch of the German scout association) and is located 60 km south of Stuttgart and 200 km west of Munich near the village Buttenhausen (Münsingen). It has been used for several regional jamborees before. To accommodate all participants surrounding pastures are rented.

Existing infrastructure as well as electric and water supply simplify site preparation, as well as organization of pre- and after-camps and planning meetings..

Schachen is a hill located inside the biosphere reserve Swabian Alb and offers a great view of the surrounding valleys.

The surroundings offer numerous destinations for excursions.

Your camp leaders –Ludi, Isa, Martin and Natascha

Tobias „Ludi“ LüddeckeLiving in: HildesheimOccupation: StudentVCP* Lower Saxony

Martin HamhaberLiving in: Schwäbisch Gmünd

Occupation: IT specialistVCP* Württemberg

Isabelle SchürleLiving in: Konstanz

Occupation: StudentVCP* Württemberg

Natascha SonnenbergLiving in: Hanover

Occupation: Construction engineer VCP* Lower Saxony

*VCP = The „Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnenund Pfadfinder“ (VCP) is the protestant part of the national Germanscout organizations RDP/RdP, which are member of WOSM and WAGGGS.

Conceptual framework – what we already agreed on

Programme

• No conventional workshop concept, but open goals.

• Focus on tasks, where participants create something together during the camp

• Participants should have the right of co-determination

• Focus hiking/exploration: Everyone should participate at least once

Sustainability

• Not part of the programme, instead

• part of everyday life during camp

• Goal is to consciously use resources

Our food concept – continuation of the box catering concept

Food is presorted and handed out in

boxes

Experience showed: cooking groups should consist of at

least 50 persons

regional and

seasonal food

Food should beorganic, if possible,

though this is subordinateto locally grown and

seasonal food

Environmental effects are more

severe if food is produced based

on organic standards but then

shipped to Europe or stored in

refrigerated containers, when

compared to conventionally

produced food, which does not

have to be transported over long

distances.

Full Steam (Volldampf) –The slogan of the national jamboree

Behind that slogan there is the era of the

industrial revolution.

During the national jamboree we want to take up the spirit of the 19th century

and experience technical progress

and inventions.

We want to sense the unlimited euphoria of

progress, the dawn of a new era, and at the

same time address the social implications of the industrialization.

Full steam (Volldampf)–The idea behind it

Subcamps represent regions, that focus on different aspects of the industrial revolution (mining, textile industry, poets and thinkers, …)

It is our goal to organize a fair on the initially void plaza. How this is going to evolve is related to the foci of the different regions.

Participants in the respective regions agree on a way to present their focus at the beginning of the camp. In this way each participant has the opportunity to actively contribute with her/his ideas.

The world’s fair, also called Exposition Universelle Internationale (Expo), is an international fair that was established during the industrialization to present technical and artisan accomplishments. The first world’s fair took place in London’s Hyde Park in 1851 at Prince Albert’s suggestion.

Full steam on Schachen? Why the slogan perfectly fits the camping ground!

At the same time manyhigh-tech companieswhich have their originduring the industrialrevolution are locatedwithin the metropolitanarea of Stuttgart.

The surrounding nature and theurban area allow us to depart to

something new ourselves: Byexplorations and hikes.

The biosphere reserve “Swabian Alb” isa region where successful nature andenvironment protection goes alongwith social and economicdevelopment of the people livingthere.

The intinery

Wed, 6.8. Thu, 7.8. Fri, 8.8. Sat, 9.8. Sun, 10.8.

Arrival

Opening ceremony

Programme in subcamps

Programme in subcamps

Programme in subcamps

Visitor‘s dayExplorer‘s

dayIntern. day

Church service

Mon, 11.8. Tue, 12.8. Wed, 13.8. Thu, 14.8. Fri, 15.8.

Programme in subcamps

Programme in subcamps

EXPO

Singing contest

Camp game

Closing ceremonyPack up

Pack up

Departure

The subcamps*

Hesse: Watt you want Electricity & post

Lower Saxony: Euphoria - romanticism,

art nouveau

RPS: Perpetual motion machine – Mobility / Motion

Family subcamp

Baden/Saxony: „Diverted into distant worlds“ Visionaries, big game hunters, scientists and

journalists go out hunting

Bavaria: Pruna –Fuels of the industrial

revolution

Hamburg: Scoutropolis –

Museums, philharmonics and

taverns

Württemberg: textile industry

*Subcamps are organized by VCP’s different regional branches

All you need to know about money – camp fee

For VCP members and members of invited groups

Regular fee: 210,00 EURFee for siblings: 180,00 EURSocial fee: 100,00 EURChildren up to 6 ys: 40,00 EURGuests, per night: 25,00 EUR (up to four nights)

Non-VCP membersPay 70,00 EUR extra

The national jamboree?It is only possible with your help!

Do you want to participate with a group?

Are you older than 18 and want to get involved as a member of the International

Service Team?

Contact us:

international@bundeslager.vcp.de

www.volldampf2014.de

Facebook.com/Volldampf2014