12 Countries will participate in the International Breeding Show at the World Championships 2007. The list includes Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
More then 60 national and international judges from 11 countries will take part in the Sport Judges' Seminar 2007 in Semriach (AT), April 13-15. 15 of them will try to pass the test to become a FEIF Licensed International Sport Judge. For the first time judges from...
The International Breeding Show in Deurne (NL), March 31 and April 1, 2007, has been cancelled due to a lack of sufficient participants.
At the successful Horses on Ice in Haarlem (NL), winning participants have drawn lots for the starting sequence of the countries per test at the World Championships 2007. This sequence determines the starting order in different tests: at World Championships the...
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.
125 Events have been registered as WorldRanking Event for this year, an absolute record. In the past few years up to 100 events were registered. Germany leads with 42 events. Iceland follows with 17 events, then Sweden with 16 events, Denmark with 14, Austria with 9,...
The international FEIF seminar for instructors and trainers will take place at Kalø Landbrugsskole, Denmark, from January 18th to 20th, 2008. Detailed information and the programme will be published on the FEIF website as soon as possible.
Inge Kringeland (NO) stepped down as member of the Breeding Registration Group (and by consequence, of the Breeding Committee). Mike Edwards (GB) has been elected in his place. Two new members have been elected in the Breeding Judges Committee: Hallgrímur S. Sveinsson...
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.
Our Icelandic member association Landssamband Hestamannafélaga (LH) developed a colouring book for children as a new way to promote the Icelandic horse. At the FEIF Conference 2007 in Glasgow the book was presented and at the same time given to FEIF as a present in...
Margrit Rusterholz (CH) is elected as new member of the Education Committee, to replace Kicki Flank (SE) who decided to step down. Silke Feuchthofen (DE) and Karen B. Rasmussen (DK) were re-elected.
More then 110 participants from 15 different countries participated in the FEIF Conference, February 16-18, 2007 in Glasgow (GB). The conference included the FEIF Delegates' Assembly (the highest body within FEIF), the annual Chairmen's meeting and annual department...
The Annual Sport Meeting in Glasgow elected 4 new members in the FEIF Sport Committee. Four positions were open for elections as Lena Lennartsson and Michaela Adalsteinsson decided to step down after a long membership of the Sport Committee. Jens Iversen and Marlise...
The Delegates' Assembly (the highest body within FEIF) elected Marlise Grimm (DE) as the new Director of Breeding. The previous Director of Breeding, Per Anderz Finn (SE) had to decide to step down. Read more about Marlise at the renewed FEIF website: www.feif.org.
At the FEIF Conference (February 16-18, 2007 in Glasgow (UK)) the Board of FEIF presented a new Vision and Mission for FEIF. The vision of FEIF is bringing people together in their passion for the Icelandic horse. The mission is to connect Icelandic horse culture,...
At the FEIF Conference (February 16-18, 2007 in Glasgow (UK)) the Board of FEIF will present a new Mission and Vision for FEIF. It is a view to the future, at least for the next 5 to 10 years. At the same time the renewed FEIF website will be launched.
Per Anderz Finn (SE) had to decide to step down as Director of Breeding of FEIF. The Board of FEIF proposes to the Delegates' Assembly (the highest body within FEIF) to elect Marlise Grimm (DE) as the new Director of Breeding, at the meeting scheduled February 16,...
The FEIF Sport Judges Seminar and Test 2007 will be moved from Iceland to Austria. FEIF couldn't come to an agreement about the conditions to organise the yearly sport judges seminar in Iceland this year. Of course this change of plan comes at a rather late moment,...