The first of a two-part feature on the Icelandic horse for FEI Equestrian World is live now. The programme is broadcast on FEI TV that has a global reach of over 238 million.This is one of the biggest promotions for the Icelandic horse to date. Entitled 'Little...
The invitation for the 18th international Youth Camp is ready. Hestheimar - 'world of horses' in Southern Iceland - is expecting you. 7th- 14th of July is only 5 months away. Gullfoss, Geysir and a visit to other landmarks are on the programme. What's not to like? As...
The final breeding jury for the World Championships 2019 is complete: Þorvaldur Kristjánsson (head judge) John Siiger Hansen Rebecka Frey Eyþór Einarsson
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...
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 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...
feiforg on Instagram is 'under new management', and every month there will be new challenges. The topic for February is 'best friends', and you can post your pictures, using #feif2019. Let's see how far we will reach! The idea is that FEIF sets a fresh theme, and you...
A small number of seats is still available for national as well as international sport judges (Stansted, London, March 2019) - in case you are interested please contact your national sport leader. Follow the link for the details on the seminar. A seminar for...
As much as the Icelandic-horse world is looking forward to the bi-annual festival of sport and breeding competitions, there is an equally passionate group of riders from all FEIF member countries getting ready for the traditional relay ride. Follow the link to the...
The 2019 FEIF YouthCamp will take place 7-14th July and is hosted in Iceland. The invitation with costs, a preliminary programme, and the number of participants per country will be sent out in February, after the FEIF conference in Berlin.
The 3rd FEIF Ringmaster meeting will be organized from March 23-24, 2019 in Gardermoen, Norway. The seminar is for experienced ringmasters or breeding judges, who shall be sent and signed in by their associations or national breeding leaders. Topics for discussion...
The deadline for submitting national reports is 15th January and the award is given annually to the national association that has been unusually active, innovative and support of youth work at national and at regional level. Introducing children to the world of the...