With great interest the European Landscape Contractors Association (ELCA) has followed the Landscape Gardening competition at EuroSkills 2023.

The competition was held from September 5^th till September 9^th in Gdansk, Poland. Twelve teams of young landscape gardeners worked on an interesting project(see above), that contained different elements of garden creation and planting. Christoph Schipflinger and Stefan Winder from Austria were the best of all teams and won the gold medal. The silver medal was for Wilhelmiina Saarijärvi and Hermanni Huuskonen from Finland. The Dutch team Twan Geven and Willem Mateman won the bronze medal. There was also a medallion for excellence for the teams of France, Hungary and Denmark. ELCA wants to congratulate the teams with their great work and beautiful result.

Also compliments to chief expert Raili Laas, deputy chief expert Thomas Vasenius and all who are involved in realizing this competition.

It is a great way to show youngsters how attractive the work of a gardener and landscaper is and that the profession offers opportunities for a future career.