25th World Scout Jamboree

25th World Scout Jamboree
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The 2023 World Scout Jamboree, officially known as the 25th World Scout Jamboree, is a planned World Scout Jamboree that is scheduled to be held in 2023.

The two candidate countries for the 2023 World Jamboree are Poland and South Korea. The World Organization of the Scout Movement was to have selected the host country in 2014 at the 40th World Scout Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, however this was postponed past the 23rd World Scout Jamboree, where both contingents still made bids. The decision will now be made at the 41st World Scout Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, to be held in August 2017.

Both the ZHP (Polish Scouting and Guiding Association) and the Korea Scout Association (South Korea) have launched bids to host the 25th World Scout Jamboree.

The ZHP's proposed theme is "Be the Spark". They have received support from the city of Gdańsk to host the jamboree there and Mayor Paweł Adamowicz wrote an article for the Huffington Post about why Gdańsk was the ideal host city.

The Korea Scout Association is looking to host the jamboree to celebrate their centenary, which takes place in 2022. The proposed location for the jamboree is Saemangeum. Their theme is Draw Your Dream.

Both candidate associations have websites for their bids. The ZHP bid website is polska2023.pl and the South Korean website is 2023wsjkorea.org.

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