News from Youth Work

The registration of the participants of the YouthCup 2008 in Brunnadern (CH) has started. The YouthCup will take place from July 12 to 20, 2008.

This year the host of the FYCup is Switzerland and the FYCup will be arranged on the grounds of the WC 2009 from July 12th to July 20th, 2008 – in a beautiful valley in the north east of Switzerland – about one hour drive from Zurich. The Swiss organisation is in the...

The annual Youth Award 2008 has been awarded to Iceland as it has significantly increased its level of activities at national as well as at international level, both in pleasure and competition riding.

The FEIF youth award is a newly established award that goes to a country that has shown a great improvement in youth work during the last year. This year the award goes to Great Britain.

Two new members have been elected in the FEIF Youth Committee: Gilles Dutilh (NL) and Helga B Helgadóttir (IS). Bärbel Kaiser (DE) and Rosemarie Thorleifsdóttir (IS) stepped down after being a member of this committee for many years.

Introducing the new award: "The best youth country of the year". The award is an idea originating from the youth committee and the youth leader meeting and it will be presented on the annual conference 2007 - which has Youth as one of the two themes. The prize will be...

The Eva-Maria Gerlach Award is a newly established bi-annual award for promising and versatile young riders. The award is named after the former Director of Youth Work Eva-Maria Gerlach, to acknowledge the fact that without Eva-Maria FEIF wouldn't have the FEIF...

The FEIF YouthCup 2006 took place July 15-23, 2006 in St Radegund (OÖ), Austria. 12 member associations of FEIF did send a team of youngsters. Five trainers did assist the participants in their preparations for the competition that took place during the second half of...

The FEIF YouthCup 2006 will take place July 15-23, 2006 in St. Radegund (OÖ), Austria. All FEIF member associations are entitled to send a team of youngsters. The invitation is available at the FEIF website: www.feif.org/service. The first registration has to take...

After many years of dedicated work within the youth committee Ben Tänzer (NL) decided to retire from the committee. Ben Tänzer was replaced in the committee by Peter Niess (youth leader in Austria). Lone Høst Jensen (DK) and Tanja Zabel (S) were reelected to the youth...

After 18 years in the Board of FEIF, Eva-Maria Gerlach stepped down as FEIF Director of Youth Work. Eva-Maria has been the major driving force after the FEIF Youth Camp and the FEIF Youth Cup, the specific tests for young riders (now included in FIPO as general sport...

Nina Auvinen, one of the Finnish participants or the FEIF Youth Camp 2005, started an international youth forum in English. Everybody is welcome! The forum can be accessed through the youth section at the FEIF website: www.feif.org/youth.

29 Young Riders did participate in the World Championships 2005. This is 25% of all participants! Since 2003, teams are allowed to enter 3 riders in the age class 16-21, extra to the 7 team members and additional defending world champions. The best three Young Riders...

The FEIF Youth Camp in Iceland (July) was a big succes with 54 participants from 13 countries. Read more about it in the Youth section of the FEIF website: www.feif.org/youth.

32 Young Riders will start at the World Championships 2005. Since 2003, all particpating countries are allowed to have up to three additional participants in their teams, provided that those riders are not more then 21 years old in the specific year. The best 3 Young...

One of the participants of the FEIF Youth Camp 2005 in Iceland, Nina Auvinen from Finland, created a special forum for the participants and other people involved in the FEIF Youth Camp. The forum can be reached through the Youth section of the FEIF website.

57 Youngsters take part in the FEIF Youth Camp in Iceland this summer. 14 countries have entered participants: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, United States and Canada. The camp...

The Annual Youth Meeting (February 11-12, 2005) decided to propose the following changes: - FEIF Youth Camp 2005 (Iceland): the date is now July 15 - July 22. The camp will be organized in the South near Selfoss at Heimarvellir with riding days at the stud and riding...