Last February the 2nd edition of the National Student Forestry Championship was held at the CPIFP Montearagón school in Huesca (Spain). This championship was again promoted by Europea-Spain and 10 companies from the forestry sector participated as sponsors. It was attended by 12 teams of 4 students each from schools all over the country. A total of 48 students and 28 teachers were invited to referee the different tasks. The tasks, once again, were the same as those of the European Student Championship in Forestry Skills, which has been held in Europe for more than 20 years.
For next year there are already several schools that want to organise the championship and others have become partners of Europea-Spain in order to participate in it, so a higher participation is expected for the 3rd edition.
After the championship, a selection has been made of the 4 best students in the technical tasks who will represent Spain in the next European Championship to be held in Latvia from the 20th to the 24th of May.
This year the Spanish team has had more time to train and has been able to practice in better conditions than last year so we hope that their performance will improve.
Good luck to all participants and see you in Latvia!!
(Text and pics by Gonzalo)