23 young people from AT, BE, DE, DK NL, IS, SE, NO, LU came together in Wenngarn, Sweden. The seminar on leadership explored questions like motivation, self-awareness and cultural difference, following dreams and making things happen, took place in an experimental...
The FEIF Youth work committee had an enjoyable and productive set of meetings in Haarlem. Routine tasks included (a) the review of the very successful FEIF YouthCup 2016, which was held in Exloo, NL. The efforts of the organisers together with the valuable input of...
The 2016 FEIF Youth Cup ended in the spirit in which it began: new friendships were made, participants and all other volunteers learnt a lot about cultural differences, and all of our activities had the Icelandic horse at the heart. This made for displays of good...
The judges at the FEIF YouthCup 2016 awarded Franziska Hunz, Germany, with the FEIF Feather Prize 2016. Congratulations! The aim of this prize is to encourage good riding and good horsemanship, a tribute to feather light riding. The awarded rider sets an example to...
Five participants of the FEIF YouthCup 2016 in Exloo (NL) received the Eva Maria Gerlach Award 2016 for being the most versatile riders (in alphabetical order): Ann-Sophie Gebhard, DE (Team Leaves Blue), Charlotte Seraina Hütter / DE (Team Fancy), Franziska Hunz / DE...
The FEIF YouthCup 2016 hosted by the Netherlands got off to an excellent start! On Sunday morning, training started, the renowned instructors of this year's Cup are: Erik Spee, Yvonne Groven, Katie Brumton, Noortje Gregoire, Yoni Blom, and Þórarinn Eymundsson. On...
One of the speakers at the FEIF Young Leaders seminar near Stockholm will be Karen Woodrow from Iceland who has studied Masters of Project Management for the past two years were she focused her final thesis on leadership skills and asking the question: what can the...
16 FEIF member countries confirmed their participation in the FEIF YouthCup 2016, which will take place in Exloo, Netherlands. Registered riders and horses - as far as known at the moment - are listed on the FEIF website.
One of our guest speakers in the FEIF Young Leaders' Event, 28-30 October near Stockholm is Perry Wood, horseman and 'people whisperer'. For several years now, Perry has successfully been teaching Icelandic horse riders in Sweden. His focus is never just on riding the...
The Netherlands are hosting this year's Youth Cup, 23-30 July in Exloo, near the German border. Preparations are well on the way, and with several qualifying events all over the FEIF world taking place in the next few weeks, excitement is growing. There are several...
FEIF Young Leaders is a new initiative run by the FEIF Youth Department. The aim is to develop and support young leaders and volunteers who we depend on for the future. The programme will start off by a weekend seminar, 28-30 October near Stockholm. The focus is on...
All allocated places for the FEIF YouthCup in July 2016 have now been confirmed. The demand was exceptionally high this year. A set number of places is allocated to each country, and some countries choose to have some extra young people on the waiting list. But there...
The annual award - FEIF Youth Country of the Year 2015 was given to Sweden. Not only does Sweden maintain a very varied and inclusive programme of events for children and teenagers, as do all of this year's very high quality entries, but it has taken the next step,...
As snow and ice are beginning to withdraw (in some places), excitement and anticipation of the FEIF Youth Cup 2016, hosted by the Netherlands is rising. Thank you for your many questions! Follow the link for a short summary of the date, place and approximate costs....
More materials from the joint Education & Youth Conference are now available here: http://feifevents.weebly.com/ The meeting took place in November 2015 at the riding school of Hannes and Barbara Kirchmayr in Weistrach, Austria. If nothing else, watch the video, which...
At the FEIF joint Education/ Youth Seminar on 27-29 November 2015, participants from ten member countries enjoyed an interesting and very stimulating seminar in Weistrach / AT. In theoretical and practical sessions we explored a wide variety of specific topics, held...
What are young people up to with their horses? How can we support them, and ensure that their knowledge and understanding of good riding, and good horsemanship is fostered and promoted? These are the questions which form the basis of the combined FEIF Education -...
The main topics on the agenda of the FEIF Youth Committees were (a) working on new projects, and (b) the next FEIF Youth Cup (23 - 30th July 2016 in Exloo, NL). Ideas still at a very early stage, but our next focus will be to provide networking and training...