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...
The FEIF Conference 2020 took place in Hveragerði, Iceland and was organized with the great help of the Landssamband hestamannafélaga (LH). As every year, the meetings started with the Annual Delegates' Assembly, the highest authority within FEIF. 13 out of 19 FEIF...
FEIF is managed by the FEIF Board that deals with all current business except for items specifically reserved for the decision of the Delegates' Assembly. The Board consists of the President, the Directors of the Departments and additionally 1-3 board members may be...
All minutes of the FEIF conference 2019 in Berlin, Germany, are now available on the FEIF website.
Topics in the chairperson meeting 2019 ranged from the latest information from the member association activities, the World Championships 2019 and 2021, the FEIF questionnaire feedback to the planned activities for the FEIF@50 celebrations. Several proposals were...
For the first time a joint meeting of several departments took place on cross-cutting issues: equipment in FEIF, doping rules and authorities and the inclusion of Gæðingakeppni in FEIF. Regarding the equipment discussions, the meeting agrees that there is no reason to...
The FEIF Conference 2019 took place in Berlin, Germany and was organized with the great help of IPZV, the German Icelandic Horse association. As in previous years, the FEIF Conference started with the Annual Delegates' Assembly, the highest authority within FEIF. 14...
The participants of the education committee had very good and enthusiastic discussions on existing education systems in the different FEIF member countries. Reports on the cooperation between the member countries in developing a common structure in the field of...
As in previous years, the breeding meeting was one of the largest meetings. Newly elected members of the committees are Maria Siepe-Gunkel (as representative of the national breeding leaders), Frauke Schenzel (as representative of the breeders) and Heimir Gunnarsson...
A really active leisure riding group met at the FEIF Conference 2019 in Berlin. Main focus was on the development of leisure riding and to learn from the work done in the countries. The interesting information discussion gave a lot of input and ideas for further work....
The large group of national sport leaders and representatives from the national as well as FEIF committees had discussions on a long list of agenda items. Florian Schneider was re-elected to the sport committee, Susanne Jelinski joined as a new member. The...
The Youth work committee started the annual meeting with a few minutes of physical warm up exercises which greatly helped with concentration and focus. 11 member associations were represented, which also means that time and again we learnt how things are done in 10...
The award of FEIF Youth Country of the year 2018 went to the Netherlands. The newly formed and very energetic committee initiates a lot of activities ranging from boys only events, horse-based activities, focusing on general riding skills and competition training, as...
All minutes of the FEIF conference 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, are are now available on the FEIF website.
In all areas of our work with the Icelandic horses we need reliable, enthusiastic and skilled volunteers. The question of how to recruit, to keep and to encourage volunteers was tackled during the FEIF conference 2018 in Stockholm, when all delegates participated in a...
The Award 'FEIF trainer/instructor of the Year 2017' goes to Alexandra Dannenmann from the United States of America, one of the smaller FEIF member countries considering the number of members. Congratulations! Alexandra Dannenmann is an IPZV Trainer B and FEIF...