Mike’s and Johannes’ participation in the conference was a great honour and eagerly awaited by participants. Apart from visiting most department meetings to discuss horse welfare and possible approaches of the Icelandic horse scene concerning the social license to...
The FEIF Delegates’ Assembly 2024 took place in Luxembourg with delegates from 17 out of 21 FEIF member countries entitled to vote being present. The decisions are available HERE and all proposals that were accepted will be included in the Rules and Regulations 2024,...
At this year’s conference, representatives from 13 member countries attended the Annual Breeding Meeting 2024. All countries had the possibility to present the activities in their countries, in addition the FEIF WF registration group, the Breeding Judges’ committee...
As can be seen from the photo, we aim to put the horse at the centre of everything we do… This is also true for this year’s annual meeting of Youth leaders, representing 11 FEIF member countries. Some time was spent on evaluating newly introduced changes in the FEIF...
At the FEIF Conference 2023, Mike Weishaupt, professor at the Equine Department of the University of Zurich, presented the topic on Social Licence to Operate and what it includes to participants from several FEIF member associations. How to explain the term SLO? The...
The keynote speech at the FEIF Conference was held by Prof. Dr. med. Vet. Michael Weishaupt and it continued to be the main topic of the FEIF Conference 2023 in all department meetings. What is Social Licence to Operate (SLO)? And which questions should we ask...
A great event with many topics and possibilities for discussions! One of the main topics of the FEIF Conference 2023 was the ”Social license to Operate (SLO)” where Mike Weishaupt from the Veterinarian University of Zurich as keynote speaker addressed the different...
The FEIF Delegates’ Assembly 2023 took place in Stockholm, Sweden with delegates from 14 out of 21 FEIF member countries entitled to vote being present. Again, a long list of candidates and issues were up for voting during the Assembly, the results are online on this...
Once a year, representatives from the FEIF member countries meet somewhere in a FEIF member country. This year, it will be Stockholm, Sweden from February 3-4, 2023. Social licence to operate (SLO) and combatting sexual harassment are the two big topics that will...
More and more horse associations all over the world started discussions about the so-called “Social license to operate” – the concern for the welfare and use of horses, the changing societal attitudes regarding animal use, the increasing public unease about the use of...
Almost 80 participants from 12 member countries met for the Conference 2022 in Oslo, Norway. As the Delegates’ Assembly was organised as online meeting in February 2022, this year’s conference included several panel discussions as well as the annual meetings of all...
As agreed unanimously by all FEIF member associations, the FEIF Delegates' Assembly 2021 will take place as a virtual meeting on February 13, 2021. The Annual Meetings of all FEIF Departments - Chair, Breeding, Education, Leisure Riding, Sport and YouthWork - will be...
Due to the current situation caused by Covid-19, FEIF decided in agreement with all member countries with voting rights to organize the Delegates’ Assembly 2021 as virtual meeting on February 13, 2021 and to move the annual meetings of all departments to a later date...
The complete set of minutes of the FEIF conference 2020 in Hveragerði, Iceland are now available for download on the FEIF website.
Two very interesting presentations were held at the FEIF Conference 2020. Þorvaldur Kristjánsson informed the participants on the 'Development of the breeding goal' and Sigríður Björnsdóttir presented the latest developments on new strategies for prevention and...
For the first time since the FEIF Leisure Riding Department was created 18 representatives from 12 FEIF member countries participated in this annual meeting which shows that there is growing interest in this topic in our Icelandic horse community. The agenda included...
The participants of the FEIF education leader meeting had a very good and constructive meeting with fruitful discussions around different educational matters within the countries. Topics reached from general advice and exchange about the set up and Organisation of...
The Annual Breeding meeting 2020 was well attended and all countries present at the Conference 2020 sent a representative to the meeting. John Siiger Hansen stepped down from the breeding committee after 23 years of working within the FEIF breeding committees and the...