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27/01/2016

In Portugal the YPEF National Stage has two rounds. The first round will take place on the 15^th of April in each of the schools. The best team of each school will follow for the second round and represent the school in the Nacional Final of the YPEF Contest, which will take place in 6^th of May in a local appointed by the Nacional Commission.

27/01/2016
Austria

• The National Stage Contest YPEF in Austria will take place in May 2016 (09.35 a.m. – 12.00 a.m.) at the Technical Forestry High School Bruck / Mur (Styria), Dr. Theodor Körnerstrasse 44, 8600 Bruck / Mur.
• The exact date is not fixed at the moment.
• In Austria the Contest is organized by the Union of Austrian Foresters.
• The Contest language is English. The Contest has two parts:

1^st part: Test (answering a list of prepared questions about European forests)
2^nd part: short PP-presentation of „Different issues about Austrian Forest`s”

• Participants are students from the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th classes - Forestry High School.

12/01/2016
Estonia
Estonian national competition has 3 stages:
1^st stage: teams compose 10 questions using official booklet and send them by e-mail by 15^th February. Questions: 2 about Europe, 2 about Estonia and 6 questions about other countries. In English.
2^nd stage: Web quiz with 50 questions on 29^th March. Each question has 4 answers from which one is correct. In English.
3^rd stage: Estonian final on 16th and 17^th May with quiz, practical assignments in the forest and poster presentation. Partly English, partly Estonian.

          V Edition of International Contest YPEF         

          VI Edition of International Contest YPEF        

Rules of the contest

  BOOKLET VI

From September 21st to 25th, teams from 11 European countries had an undeniable pleasure to visit picturesque Bușteni (Romania), where the European Final of fifth edition of YPEF contest was held. 

Throughout these five days, participants had a chance to admire Romanian nature, see and hike through beautiful Bucegi Mountains, get to know each other and last but not least - learn about European forests.

Tasks of this year’s final was: 
- paper test
- field activities in the forest
- preparation and presentation of the posters on various forest related topics.

The winners of the YPEF 2015 European Final are:

1st place
Radosław Rzadkowolski (Poland), Galushka Andriy (Ukraine) and Halip Vasile (Romania)

2nd place
Tobias Ofner (Austria), Gytis Šaulys (Lithuania), Maria Inês Quelhas (Portugal)

3rd place
Marta Svalbone (Latvia), Maria João Couto (Portugal), Cocris Eduard (Romania)

Complete results table:

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The winners of this year’s contest are again Chantal Bohn, Luca Nahs and Philine Wegner from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium Eberswalde. They will go to Busteni in Romania, a mountain resort in Prahova Valley, at the foothills of Bucegi Natural Park. On Wednesday the 15th of July 2015 the winners were honoured at the plenary meeting of the last school day before summer holidays. All pupils, teachers and the principal of the school attended the event. The winners received a high quality tent for future stays, adventures and excursions into the forest. In addition further prices were given to the students who came second and third in the contest. The second place received Nele Gehricke, Lisa Schill and Pirkko Wolbrink and the third place Liesa Wehner and Shirley Daugsch. Furthermore there was a different group of students of another school that came third: Maximilian Friederisszyk, Johannes Herzog and Peer-Alec Poppe of OSZ OPR Neuruppin. Congratulations to all of you! Very well done! Thanks to all German participants and their teachers for taking part in the national contest of Young People in European Forests 2015! We hope to welcome you again next year!

02/07/2015

In Latvia the YPEF National Stage of the Contest was organized on 9th of June by JSC "Latvia`s State Forests" (LVM) in cooperation with Ogre Technical School.
15 students from Ogre Technical School forestry and forestry equipment department got into the national final and compare their knowledge with each other.
The competitionwas held intwo parts: the first round, the contestantshadto answerindividuallyto the50test questionsabout Latvian and European forest and forestry. The challenge for the second round was to create aA3poster, with a shortannotationin English. The competitionposterswere selectedtopics such as-Bioenergyfromforests in Europe, Endangered speciesin European forests, Wildlife managementinEuropeanforests, Natura 2000and otherforest-relate themes.

The winners: Marta Svalbone and Matīss Mūrnieks will participate in the European Final Stage of the YPEF contest in Busteni, Romania. Congratulations!