The FEIF Leisure Riding Committee is organizing a photo competition with the theme "Leisure Time with your Icelandic Horse". The winner will win 2 week tickets for the World Championships 2025 in Birmenstorf. Send in your best photos showing how you spend your leisure...
This year we are going to Denmark! We are inviting all young people aging 18-26 years in FEIF countries to come to Denmark for an inspiring weekend. We aim to encourage young people to engage in organizational work and inspire curiosity in a natural and reflected way,...
We are looking forward to see riders and horses from: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States....
Join us for the FEIF Webinar on changes to the 2025 Sport Rules & Regulations! We are excited to invite you to our upcoming FEIF Webinar "Changes to the 2025 FEIF Sport Rules & Regulations and Sport Judge Guidelines". This is an excellent opportunity for...
The selection of the World Championships 2025 Breeding Judges is complete. The FEIF Breeding Committee and the FEIF Breeding Judges Committee agreed on the breeding judges for the World Championships 2025 in Birmenstorf, Switzerland. The following judges will be...
Last weekend the Dansk Islandshesteforening, hosted the FEIF Sport Judge & Education Seminar, bringing together equestrian professionals from around the world. This key event provided valuable educational opportunities for both judges and trainers in the...
Total number of horses exported worldwide from Iceland in 2024 was 1.318. The group contains a vide variety of horses such as: leisure horses, breeding horses, competition horses, young horses, yearlings and foals. IS-horses were transported to 19 countries of which...
Many years ago the FEIF Leisure Riding Committee developed the Horse - Rider - Profile to ensure a better matching of horse and rider. Now the Committee has set itself the task of transforming this profile into a practical and easy-to-use checklist to better meet the...
What motivates you to take on this job? I had the privilege to go through the youth program that FEIF had to offer during the years that I was a young rider. The events taught me so much about the Icelandic horse and our way to work and live with them. Over the years,...
What motivates you to take on this job? The underlying motivation of everything I do, and have done, within FEIF can be described by the twin aims of creating a sense of community, and of fostering well-being, for horses and people alike. It was I, who invented the...
In 2024 – for the first time – FEIF honoured the “Leisure Country of the Year”! All FEIF member countries were invited to showcase their leisure work achievements and innovations. By submitting a short report, the participating leisure departments of the different...
The benefits of Combining Theory with Practice Combining theory with practice offers a powerful approach to learning and skill development.While theory provides the foundational knowledge and concepts, practice allows individuals to apply what they have learned in...
The FEIF Award is given by the FEIF Board to persons for their outstanding contribution to the work and the success of FEIF, the Icelandic horse and the Icelandic horse community in general. At the FEIF Conference 2025 in Vienna, the award was given to the outgoing...
After struggling to connect with the next generation of young riders, this country came up with the excellent idea of a new form of academy. „If the young riders don‘t attend the programmes we invite them to, we will bring the programmes to them - virtually on...
There were nominations from 9 countries and a total of 475 persons answering the survey (which is much more than the last years) and Erik Andersen (Norway) received most votes. Erik Andersen is a highly respected FEIF Level 4 instructor who has played a pivotal role...
The Annual Breeding Meeting 2025 took place in Vienna, gathering 22 participants to discuss a comprehensive agenda featuring numerous key topics. A long agenda of topics was discussed among the participants - not only changes regarding the FEIF Rules&Regulations,...
The Youth work meeting started enthusiastically with the presentation of the existing feif youth events and the benefits they offer for the next generation. Upcoming highlights will be the youth camp in Iceland this summer, the young leaders seminar in Denmark this...
The national Sport Leaders agreed to another two years for Hulda Gustafsdóttir and Markus Karrer as member of the Sport Committee. The main topic in the annual Sport Leader meeting was the proposal on the description of the colored cards used by judges sport...