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The meeting of International Contest Commission took place on 28th- 29th of June in Czech Republic- Prague/ Kostelec nad Černými Lesy, in The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences of the Czech University of Life Sciences (Fakulta lesnická a dřevařská České zemědělské univerzity v Praze), Kamýcká 1176, 165 21 Praha 6 – Suchdol.

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The "Baár-Madas Református Gimnázium" represents Hungary in the international finals. The team of 'Baár-Madas Református Gimnázium' from Budapest won the Young People in European Forests (YPEF) contest’s national finals in Hungary, so they represent the country in 2011. 28 to 29 September at the international finals held in Poland, where thirteen European countries' students compare their skills.

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    On 17^th of June, in Warsaw University of Life Science the second step of Polish National Stage took place. 11 teams with their teachers from 10 schools came to dissolve an YPEF test. Participants had to answer 50 questions about forest and forestry in Europe, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine.
    Teams, that received 50 points during first step, were invited to take part in second step.
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In 2011 12th of May plenty of young forest friends you could met in the corridors of Lithuanian University of Agriculture Faculty of Forestry and Ecology. Two events toked place under one roof: National stage of the contest "Young People in European Forests" and traditionally National Contest of Forestry. 5 teams of pupils were registered for the YPEF Contest, unfortunately just 3 teams, because of various reasons were able to take part in the Contests 12th of May.

On 3^rd-5^th of June representatives of Forest Friends Association (TPL) from Poland – prof. Albert Dudek, Anna Trzosińska and Bożena Kawecka had a pleasure to attend the  Czech National Stage of YPEF organized by Ing. Stanislav Jansky and  Český svaz ochránců přírody (ČSOP), with support of Mayor of Pilsen City.
The YPEF contest was combined with Ecology Olympic Contest.  The participants of the contest were ten best teams from Czech schools, three persons in each team, chosen from 3 000 participants who started at the beginning.

In Poland results of the first step of national stage, that took place on 28th April, has been accepted. On 30th  May meeting of National Contest Commission took place in Warsaw University of Life Science. Commission accepted 3012 tests from 620 polish schools. 14 teams got the highest score-50 points.