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{{infobox WorldScouting
|type=organization
|image=Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo.png
|image-size=140px
|caption=Italian Scout Federation
|name=Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo
|headquarters= piazza Pasquale Paoli, 18
| location= Rome
|country=Italy
|f-date= 1986
|founder=
| award-for = 
| members = 187,000
| chiefscouttitle = President
| chiefscout = Franz Adami
| chiefscouttitle2 = Vice-president
| chiefscout2 = Marilina Laforgia
| website = [http://www.scouteguide.it scouteguide.it] 
| affiliation = [[World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts]], [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] 
| owner = }}

The '''Federazione Italiana dello Scautismo''' (FIS, ''Italian Scout Federation'') is the national [[Scouting]] and [[Girl Guides|Guiding]] federation of [[Italy]]. Scouting and Guiding in Italy started in 1910, the Boy Scouts were among the charter members of the [[World Organization of the Scout Movement]] in 1922, the Girl Guides joined the [[World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts]] in 1948. The federation serves 102,778 Scouts (as of 2011)<ref name="Census_2010">{{cite web |title=Triennal review: Census as at 1 December 2010|url=http://scout.org/en/content/download/22261/199900/file/Census.pdf |publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement |accessdate=2011-01-13}}</ref> and 84,303 Guides (as of 2008).<ref name="WAGGGS_membership">{{cite web |url=http://www.wagggsworldconference.org/en/grab/2398/1/33rdWorldConfernce-QuotaDoc11Agenda13-ENGLISHFinal.pdf |title=33rd World Conference Document No. 11 |publisher=[[World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts]] |accessdate=2008-10-27}}</ref>

==History==
{{further2|[[Scouting in Italy#History|History of Scouting in Italy]]}}

The FIS was founded in 1986 after the merger of ''Federazione Esploratori Italiani'' (Boy Scouts branch, established in 1944 and [[World Organization of the Scout Movement|WOSM]] affiliated) and ''Federazione Italiana Guide Esploratrici'' (Girl Guides branch, established in 1945 and [[WAGGGS]] affiliated).

== Members ==

The members of the federation are
* [[Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani]] (AGESCI, ''Italian Catholic Guide and Scout Association'', coed)
* [[Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori ed Esploratrici Italiani]] (CNGEI, ''National Boy and Girl Scout Corps'', interreligious, coed)

Affiliated to AGESCI are two minority Scouting organizations:
* the [[Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft]] is the Catholic Scout association of the [[German language|German]]-speaking minority in [[South Tyrol]].
* the [[Slovenske Zamejske Skavtske Organizacije]] serves the [[Slovenians]] living in the region [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]].

== See also ==
* [[Scouting in Italy]]
* [[Gualtiero Zanolini]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.scouteguide.it FIS]
* [http://www.agesci.org/ AGESCI]
* [http://www.cngei.it/ CNGEI]
* [http://www.pfadfinder.bz/ Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft]

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{{WAGGGS|europe}}

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[[Category:WAGGGS member organizations]]
[[Category:WOSM member organizations]]
[[Category:Scouting and Guiding in Italy]]
[[Category:1986 establishments in Italy]]

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