All of us in front of the Waldsolarheim in Eberswalde, the place where we stayed

The contest started with the written test

Official welcome ceremony:

Moritz Wenning from Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald - the man who organized the whole event

Andrzej Kawalec - Chairman of YPEF International Commission

The mayor of the town Eberswalde

Hubertus Kraut - the Director of German State Forests of the Land Brandenburg

After the official part the participants took part in forest activities, they had many different tasks, teaching them the everyday's work of a forester. They also scored points to the overall results.

Those brave enough could watch the forest from the top of a crane

In the meantime the YPEF International Commission was also working - already discussing the next year's edition of the YPEF contest.

Another task of the students was to prepare and present posters on selected topics related to forests and forestry. 

Students did a really great job!

We also planted trees in the Eberswalde forest

The award ceremony - here you can see the teams  - all of them performed really great, the differences in scores were very small. We can say that everybody were winners.

Some of the national teams prepared short presentations about their countries. Everybody really enjoyed that!

Everybody had a really great time during this year's final. And next year we will try even harder.

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