During the 2009 FLORINT General Assembly, it was decided to accept the very strong and appealing proposal of the Czech Association to organize the Europa Cup in September 2011 in the city of Havirov. That has turned out to be an excellent decision, as the organizers did a fantastic job resulting in an incredibly memorable Europa Cup for all of the involved parties. 

You can have a look at the short interviews we conducted with (most of) the various Europa Cup for Floristry 2011 participants prior to the beginning of the contest, by clicking the following link: Take me to the interviews!

Our initial news report on the happenings at the Europa Cup and the impressive triumph by Russian candidate Natalia Zhizhko, can be found here.

More elaborate coverage of the various assignments of the European Championship, including the exact scores, photographs of the top-3 works in all of the six rounds as well as commentary by the various medal winners, follows below:

Round 1: "Symphony in Blooms"

Round 2: "The Youngest City"

Round 3: "The Bridal Bouquets"

Round 4: "From Coal to Blooms"

Round 5: "A Hat for Eliza Doolittle"

Round 6: "The Surprise Assignment"

If you prefer to simply scroll through all the wonderful pictures from the European Championship, we point you to our extensive Photogallery instead.

Related documents for download:

A short schematic summary of the results of all the national contestants in the European Championship can be found here.

A .pdf document with all of the contest's score totals, including those for all of the individual contestants during the various rounds, broken down along the lines of the judges' criteria (idea, color, composition, technique, as well as any required penalties), can be downloaded here: *click*

For the competition regulations that were in use during the Europa Cup of Floristry 2011, please click here.

The official brochure announcing the 'European Championship in Professional Floristics' - as the Europa Cup is officially called - can be downloaded by clicking here (in .pdf as well). This also includes the program of the Europa Cup 2011. 

A more elaborate timetable for the whole of August 31 to September 5, as provided to the Europa Cup competitors, can be found here instead (.doc file).

Lastly, for extensive information about the three competition venues that were utilized during the Europa Cup 2011 in Havirov, we point you to this document (.pdf).