After participating in the IMPULSA Forum 2011, this 14-year-old German, Felix Finkbeiner, founder of Plant-for-the-Planet Children Initiative, organised the first ‘Academy’ in Girona. The Academy is a capacity-building initiative designed to mobilise young people to actively promote and personally participate in planting thousands of trees in each country.

This year, 75 third and fourth-year secondary school pupils from 14 different educational centres in the Girona province and Osona County who have carried out environmental actions during the 2011-2012 school year participated in the 2nd Plant-for-the-Planet Academy on 4 and 5 May in Cantonigròs (Osona). Organised by the Prince of Girona Foundation (PGiF), Acciónatura, the Pere Tarrés Foundation and the Department of Education of the Government of Catalonia.