Date :
11th Asia-Pacific Scout Youth Forum:
6 – 9 October 2025. Participants should arrive 05 October 2025 and may leave 10 October 2025 if not attending the 28th AP Scout Conference.
Venue :
Chien Tan Youth Activity Centre, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Theme :
“Scouting: Integrated Versatility”
Forum Fee and Registration :
USD 250.00
The fee for the Youth Forum is USD 250.00. This includes the forum kit and materials, inland transportation, accommodation for five nights (check-in on 05 October and check-out on 10 October), meals for five days (from dinner on 05 October to breakfast on 10 October), an educational tour, and forum documents.
Participants of the Youth Forum who will also be attending the 28th Asia-Pacific Scout Conference will need to pay an additional registration fee of USD 180.00, making the total participation fee for both the Forum and the Conference USD 430.00. Please note that this conference fee does not cover accommodation during the conference.
Additionally, participants and staff who plan to attend the 28th Asia-Pacific Scout Conference are required to complete a separate Conference Registration Form through their respective NSO and pay the applicable conference fee.
Eligibility :
Consistent to the Guidelines for Asia-Pacific Scout Youth Forum, “participants of the AP Scout Youth Forum should represent the NSO well and therefore, participants should ideally be elected from a National Youth Forum or equivalent institutional structure like a National Rover Council. Some NSOs have young people in their National Executive Board. They, too, are ideal participants of the Youth Forum.”
Each National Scout Organization shall appoint two delegates and a maximum of eight observers to the Youth Forum (total of TEN participants).
Participants from NSOs must be endorsed by the National Scout Organization and must be between 18 to 26 years old during the period of the forum. Other youth organizations from the host country may also be invited to join.
National Scout Organizations (NSOs) are encouraged to include young people in their conference delegations as delegates or observers, in line with the 22nd Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Conference Resolution 2/07 adopted in Japan, which states: “NSOs be encouraged to send young delegates with at least one young member under 26 to the APR Scout Conference.” Therefore, we strongly encourage all NSOs to facilitate the participation of their Youth Forum attendees to continue through to the conference.
Preparing your participants to the Youth Forum :
We would like to encourage NSOs to hold a National Scout Youth Forum to select participants, who can properly represent your national Scout organization in this event.
The Asia-Pacific Region, through the APR Youth Engagement SubCommittee and the Asia-Pacific Regional Youth Representatives, is willing to assist in conducting your National Scout Youth Forum, if requested.
Topics to be discussed at the Youth Forum :
One of the key responsibilities of participants to the Youth Forum is to inform the Youth Forum Planning Committee, through their National Scout Organizations, the topics they are interested in and would like to discuss during the Youth Forum.
As per the Guidelines for the Asia-Pacific Regional Scout Youth Forum, the final topics selected for discussion will be shared with participants three months before the Forum’s opening. All announcements and relevant information will be disseminated via the Facebook group linked below: https://www.facebook.com/groups/787613116710903
Additionally, we encourage your NSO to invite as many young people as possible to join the Youth Forum Online discussion site to gather ideas and feedback from a broader audience of young people. Details about this will also be shared later through the mentioned Facebook Group.