Watch the Media Information Session from the Normandie 2014 Organising Committee. The Presentation is by Fabien GROBON, Managing Director Jos�© CARLIN PEREZ, Head of Media LOC.
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It’s time to recruit volunteers and to federate the whole Normandy around the project.

The World Equestrian Games needs 3000 volunteers and hopes that 2014 companys from every branch of industry will join it’s cause, by suscribing to the “Club Normandie 2014″.

New partners have joined the event.

Fabien Grobon, managing director of the Normandie 2014 Organising Committee, will be bringing the international media up to date on the committee’s progress.

His interview is available online via the event’s website on the “International Media Special” page from http://www.alltechfeiweg2014-normandy.com/uk/special-event-gc74.html

In addition, please find here our press release

Media contact ââ?¬â?? Normandie 2014 Organising Committee:
France ââ?¬â?? CÃ?©line Gualde – +33 (0)6 17 35 13 79
E-mail : presse@normandie2014.com

About the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games� 2014 in Normand

The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games� 2014 in Normandy mark the beginning of a whole succession of international sporting events in France: UEFA EURO 2016, the 2017 World Handball Championships and the 2018 Ryder Cup.

Held every 4 years, alternating with the Olympic Games and under the authority of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI), the World Equestrian Games are the biggest equestrian event in the world. They will be hed from 23 August to 7 September 2014.

The event brings together 8 official disciplines over a period of two weeks of competition: jumping, dressage, eventing, driving, reining, vaulting, endurance and para-dressage.

Over 60 nations and nearly 1000 athletes will come together to demonstrate equestrian competitions of the highest standard to the 500,000 visitors expected at the various sites.

www.alltechfeiwegnormandy2014.com

April 27, 2013, 12.00h

The IAEJ cordially invites all media attending this year’s World Cup Finals in Goteborg, Sweden to a presentation by the organizers of the 2014 Alltech World Equestrian Games. Fabien Grobon, CEO of WEG Normandie and JosÃ?© Carlin, in charge of accreditations and media services, have accepted an invitation from the IAEJ president to meet with the media on Saturday, April 27 at 12 noon in the press center at the Scandinavium. Refreshments will follow the presentation and question and answer session.

Media wishing to apply for accreditation for the Ecco FEI European Jumping, Dressage and Para-Dressage Championships and the HSBC FEI European Eventing Championships 2013 can do so online using the following links:

• Ecco FEI European Jumping, Dressage and Para-Dressage Championships, Herning (DEN)
  19 ââ?¬â?? 25 August 2013. English Danish
• HSBC FEI European Eventing Championships, MalmÃ?¶ (SWE)
  28 August – 1 September 2013. English Swedish

The application deadline for both events is 15 July.

 
Media contacts:

At FEI
Grania Willis
Director Press Relations
grania.willis@fei.org
+41 78 750 61 42

Malina Gueorguiev
Manager Media Relations
malina.gueorguiev@fei.org
+41 78 750 61 33

At Herning
Britt Carlsen
presse@european-herning.dk

At Malm�¶
Birgitta Hjertberg
birgitta.hjertberg@malmo.se
+46 709 34 14 11

The FEI and the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) have embarked on a three-year plan in response to growing demand from countries for help in improving cross-border movement of top-level sport horses, as participation in equestrian competitions reaches a record high.

Several proposals have been made under the plan, including a full-time secondment of a senior veterinarian to OIE headquarters in Paris, who will work directly with top level officers.

The FEI veterinarian will collaborate with the OIE on defining a sub-population of lower disease risk, “high health, high performance” sport horses, which will be integrated into countries’ existing biosecurity systems that have been created to protect animals and human populations against the risk of disease spread.

In addition, the seconded expert will contribute to support veterinary training programmes as part of the OIE’s PVS Pathway, a global programme for the sustainable development of national veterinary services around the world.

The FEI and OIE will also develop communication tools focusing on the valuable economic and social contribution of equestrian sport for governments as they modernise import and export procedures to accommodate the safe movement of sport horses while protecting their welfare.

The plan marks a milestone in the FEI’s 10-year working relationship with the OIE, and is being put into action at the start of what is expected to be the busiest event calendar in the history of equestrian sport. Last year alone, there were over 3,000 FEI events around the world, representing a 27% growth since 2008.

“Over the last ten years, the OIE has worked in close partnership with the FEI to identify the key elements needed to bring about a more practical, but safe introduction of national Veterinary Services requirements for the safe international movement of sport horses and for the application of biosecurity measures on all sites where competitions take place,” said OIE Director General, Dr Bernard Vallat.

“The FEI will now commit its resources in the spirit of a public-private partnership with the OIE, in which far-reaching resources will be contributed to correct the problems that exist in the movement of healthy sport horses.”

In 2002, the FEI signed an Official Agreement with the OIE, joining the likes of the World Health Organisation, World Trade Organisation, World Veterinary Association and the International Federation for Animal Health, which have similar OIE agreements.

The FEI and the OIE have since co-hosted joint summits on the international movement of sport horses, which have been attended by over 70 international government representatives and veterinary and horse sport experts from 25 countries.

“We are now entering another exciting phase in our long-term relationship with the OIE,” explained FEI President HRH Princess Haya, who last September was appointed to serve as the OIE’s first Goodwill Ambassador to help raise worldwide awareness of its missions and activities.

“The FEI is looking forward to building on the achievements of its ten-year partnership with the OIE, and to providing dedicated expertise in the joint pursuit of sustaining and promoting the international growth of equestrian sport, and everything it stands for.

“Together, we will help to provide much better government awareness about the competition horse, and establish a commonly-recognised biosecurity approach that will allow international equestrian sport to flourish far into the future.”

Editors Notes

With the mandate to improve animal health and welfare worldwide, the OIE is recognised as the reference standard-setting organisation for the international movement of animals, including horses, by the World Trade Organisation: http://www.oie.int/

FEI Media contacts:

Ruth Grundy
Manager Press Relations
ruth.grundy@fei.org
+41 78 750 61 45

Malina Gueorguiev
Manager Press Relations
malina.gueorguiev@fei.org
+41 78 750 61 33

OIE Media contact:

Gla�¯eul Mamaghani
Acting Head, Communications Unit
g.mamaghani@oie.int
+ 33 1 44 15 19 72

The countdown towards the European sport event of the year has begun.

If you have not already made a mark in your calendar 20-25 August 2013 are the dates to pin down. The ECCO FEI European Championships in Jumping, Dressage and Para-Dressage will be held in Herning in western Denmark.

The football stadium MCH Arena will be transformed into an international show ground. All around the Exhibition Centre in Herning you will find entertainment in different forms ââ?¬â?? the championships will provide spectacular sport as well as good fun, just wait and see.

Media representatives can obtain accreditation by completing and submitting an online form (see link below). We expect the demand for accreditation to be huge; so in order to serve as many as possible, the standard is one representative each media/publication.

You will find the requirements on the official website (see link below). The press team will keep this site updated with information up to and during the championships.

Once you have filled in the accreditation form please allow a three-week processing time. The deadline for submitting your accreditation is 15 July 2013. This date is crucial as inquiries for accommodation cannot be guaranteed hereafter.

If you apply for media accommodation and your accreditation is confirmed, you will receive a booking code for room reservation at an official media hotel.

We welcome you to Herning and the ECCO FEI European Championships – Jumping, Dressage and Para Dressage 2013.

Britt Carlsen Official Press Officer

Official website link.

Accreditation link.

Congratulations to the winners:

Shannon Brinkman (USA) Photography

Charlene Strickland (USA) Article

Jan T�¶njes (GER) Broadcast

A special thank you to the judges: Alan Smith (GBR), Tricia Booker (USA), Ian Allison (CAN)

The awards will be presented at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event Press Party and a venue in Europe to be decided.

ECCO European Championships

Herning, Denmark

August 20-25, 2013

The European Championships in Dressage and Jumping take place this summer at Herning in Denmark, August 20-25. The IAEJ is looking to appoint both journalist and photographer representatives for the championships. If you would like to volunteer for either position please contact Pamela Young. Reps should have championship experience, be fully versed in the FEI Media Guidelines and preferably, be from the host country, or near enough for a site visit before the championships.

The press officer for Herning is Britt Carlsen. She reports that the organizers are meeting over the weekend of February 2-3. After this meeting they hope to open accreditation for the media. The accreditation form will have a section on accommodation where media can request a room(s) in the media hotels. A free shuttle service will operate between hotels and show grounds at various times during the day. When your application for accreditation is confirmed, you will get a booking code allowing you to book a room at any of the Official Media hotels. During the event, the very experienced, Edith De Reys will be in charge of the press center in collaboration with Christel Kr�¸yer (press officer at Odense) and Rikke H�¸jgaard, director of Press Relations at the Danish Equestrian Federation.

The three hotels on offer for the press, with shuttleservice are:

• VejlesÃ?¸hus from 80 to 134 euros
• Scandic Silkeborg from 167 to 193 euros
• Hotel PejsegÃ?Â¥rden from 135 euros

For alternative accommodation please got to: Visit Herning, you can find them on the wbsite at this link.

and on e-mail: mail@visitherning.com

For more information on the championships please go to: european-herning.dk

Accreditation is open on the Gothenburg Horse Show website (more…)

IAEJ Member Diana De Rosa to appear on The Food Networkââ?¬â?¢s next season of The Worst Cooks in America. The premier of this series will air February 17th.  If you are interested in more details and/or a press release, contact Abby Dixon – ADixon@rogersandcowan.com ââ?¬â?? from Rogers and Cowan.