Gleðileg Jól og Farsaelt Komandi ár! Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr! Glædelig Jul og godt nytår! Vrolijk Kersfeest en 'n gelukkige nuwe jaar! Gledhilig jól og eydnurikt nýggjár! Hyvää Joulua or Hauskaa Joulua! Onnellista Uutta Vuotta! Joyeux Noël...
European Horse Network (EHN) - a non-profit network of stakeholders acting at a World, European, National or Regional level within the European horse sector - has published the December 2015 newsletter. The newsletter looks back at the successful European Parliament...
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...
The combined Education & Sport Seminar will take place in the Arlanda area, Sweden on March 5 & 6, 2016. The seminar will focus on the connection between the horse and rider using Tölt in Harmony as a central topic. A detailed list of presenters and topics will be...
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 Sport Judges Committee got together for a productive two-day meeting in Malmö along with the other FEIF working committees. Members reviewed both the World Championships 2015 in particular and the World Ranking competition season in general. The committee...
The Sport Committee met for a very productive two-day session as part of the FEIF Committee Meetings in Malmö, Sweden (October 24 and 25). The committee conducted a review of the World Championships 2015 and made some suggestions for the future. We also considered...
The joint meeting of FEIF Breeding and Breeding Judge committee put main focus on future projects. It was discussed how the breeding show at the World Championships 2017 could be improved and that FEIF should have an additional specific event with breeding...
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...
The FEIF Education Committee met during the weekend in Malmö for a constructive working weekend focusing on several important topics including administrative and organisational work. Main topic has been the final preparation of the joint FEIF Education-Youth seminar...
During the committee meeting weekend in Malmö 2016 substantial progress was made in relation to the test of the ideal leisure horse. Ideas were tested live on two horses, who patiently agreed to the fun. Great thanks to Lena Brandsten from Helgagården, who kindly...
The FEIF Software Group met during the FEIF Committee Meeting in Malmö to plan the next steps in the development of 'IceTest NG' the much anticipated successor to the IceTest software suite. The Group is on target to have a first release of NG to be unveiled at the...
The European Parliament hosted a conference on Equine Welfare on October 21, 2015 in Brussels. The reason for the conference was the publication of the report Removing the Blinkers: The health and welfare of European equidae in 2015, which investigates the state of...
FEIF is providing national rankings for Iceland, Denmark and Sweden, based upon WorldRanking Events in the specific countries. The ranking lists are based upon the best two results per rider per test. The ranking lists are updated every night, and like the...
The FEIF Sport Department congratulates the 105 riders who have been nominated for Good and Harmonious Riding in the 2015 competition season. Thank you all for being such excellent examples of the type of riding we hope to see in our sport. Lisa Schürger (DE) received...
The Icelandic rider Þorvaldur Árni Þorvaldsson has been suspended by a decision of the National Olympic Committee and Sports Federation of Iceland to ban the rider based on a positive drug test at the Reykjavíkurmeistaramóti Fáks in May. The rider is suspended for a...
The FEIF WorldRanking is a system to compare results of riders of pure-bred Icelandic horses at selected sport events all over the world with each other. FEIF started the WorldRanking in 1995. The last WorldRanking events of the season 2015 took place on the first...