On May 15 took place final of national stage of YPEF contest in Portugal. Winning team: Maria Ines Quelhas, Maria João Couto and Rafaela Ferreira from the Valongo Group of Schools.

At the National Final, all teams took a written test in English and created and presented a poster on the subject "Portuguese forests". Students from the winning team will now prepare to participate in the European Final of YPEF Contest which will be held between 21 and 25 September in the Bucegi Natural Park, near Brasov in Romania. At this stage, they will get to know the local biodiversity, participate in activities in the forest with the winning teams from Germany, Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Ukraine.