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...
News from Conference
Conference minutes 2018
All minutes of the FEIF conference 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, are are now available on the FEIF website.
Workshop on voluntary work
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...
Annual Sport Meeting 2018
The Sport Leaders met in Stockholm for a productive two-day session as part of the FEIF Conference 2018. Two new members were elected to the Sport Committee: Alexandra Montan-Grey (SE) and Markus Karrer (CH). They join Hulda Gústafsdóttir (IS), Einar Ragnarsson (AT),...
Annual Breeding Meeting 2018
The breeding leaders had a very constructive meeting with many discussions and also decided upon several changes in the breeding regulations, rules and guidelines which will be prepared for 2019. The group also decided to form a committee that will from 2019 on make a...
Annual YouthWork Meeting 2018
'Youth work is about the future' and so were most of the discussions in the FEIF Youth Meeting in Stockholm. Many of the delegates from the FEIF countries were younger than 26 years old (this is a first!) and what is more, they were already a pretty functioning team....
Annual Education Meeting 2018
The education department had a constructive meeting with very positive discussions, intensive cooperation and results concerning a wide range of educational topics. The cooperation between the countries in educational matters is clearly getting closer. From now on...
FEIF Trainer/Instructor of the Year 2017
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...
FEIF Award 2018
Þorvaldur Árnason received the FEIF Award for his great contribution to the breeding of the Icelandic horse all over the world. He has been one of the leading scientists for many decades in the field of horse breeding and has added greatly to the knowledge about the...
Delegates’ Assembly 2018
The FEIF Conference 2018 took place in Stockholm, Sweden and was organized with the great help of the Swedish Icelandic Horse Association. As every year, the FEIF Conference started with the Annual Delegates' Assembly, the highest authority within FEIF. 12 out of 19...
Annual Chairperson Meeting 2018
Participants from nine FEIF member countries participated in the Annual Chairperson meeting at the FEIF Conference 2018 and provided updates on the latest developments and activities in their countries. Volunteers - how to motivate, how to include and how to honour...
Annual Leisure Riding Meeting 2018
The exchange of information and experience from the countries was very positive and a lot of good ideas were discussed. Regarding the Horse Profile, there were several ideas on how to publish and advertise it in the countries. The countries are aware of the need to...
FEIF Conference 2017
The full minutes of all meetings that took place in Helsinki (FIN) in February 2017 are now online on the FEIF website.
Annual Sport Meeting 2017
The Sport Leaders and Sport Committee met for two days in Helsinki to consider a long agenda of proposals from the Committee and member associations. Coen Buijsse, Organizer World Championships 2017, presented an updated on the status of preparations for August. (All...
Annual YouthWork Meeting 2017
The FEIF YouthWork committee welcomed delegates representing 10 member countries. The discussions included a review of the 2016 FEIF Youth Cup hosted by NL and the changes we will introduce for the next Cup, 2018 in Sweden. Most significantly it was decided - as a...
Annual Education Meeting 2017
The education department had a successful meeting with very positive discussions, intensive exchange of information and results concerning educational topics of the representative participants. Herdis Reynisdottir, IS and Margrit Rusterholz, CH did not stand for...
Delegates’ Assembly 2017
The FEIF Conference 2017 took for the first time place in Helsinki, Finland and was organized with the great help of the Finnish Icelandic Horse Association. As every year, the FEIF Conference started with the Annual Delegates' Assembly, the highest authority within...
Annual Chairperson Meeting 2017
The participants of the chairperson meeting provided updates about the latest developments and activities in their countries. As major topics of the meeting the activities of private organisers and actors, the challenge to involve volunteers in the activities in the...