Meeting with the Presidents’ of the ordinary member Associations of IFF
Place: SAS Radisson Hesperia hotel, Helsinki, Finland.
Date: September
14, 2003.
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1 Introduction, welcome and purpose of
meeting (enclosure
1)
Mr. Eriksson greeted the participants welcome and informed of the purpose of the meeting, i.e. to inform about the present situation in international Floorball from IFF´s point of view, the strengths and weaknesses, and to
discuss and find eventual solutions for the marketing
function of IFF.
All
participants presented themselves.
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2 Status of today concerning IFF
Vision and objectives and financial situation, implications,
and
objectives set in Hohenmölsen November 2001, implications
Mr.
Liljelund informed of the background of the workshop was to streamline the
organization and define
the
objectives. IFF is maybe growing to quick – associations demand and want to
participate in
championships.
The vision was set and decided by the IFF Congress in Helsinki in May 2002, but
to achieve the vision requires and needs more staff, i.e. a Secretary general,
a competition officer, a marketing officer, and an office clerk. We need to
discuss in which speed we should fulfil the vision. Amongst other things, the
main objective is to get IOC recognition 2006.
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3 Role of the member associations of
IFF, rights and duties
Mr.
Orlando informed of the role of the members, the rights and duties.
Mr.
Orlando feels that IFF has grown more externally than internally – due to lack
of resources (financially, staff etc.). To many associations relies on the 5
“older” associations to carry out the international development. All
associations has to realize that IFF is not an institution itself – it consists
of all associations and all associations has to contribute to the development.
According to the answers of the Federations following the questionnaire by the
EDC that IFF shall support its members in all matters relating to Floorball, it
is also the duty of the associations to pay its share in order to fulfil these
important tasks.
§ 4 EDC/DB projects
Mr. Vaculik presented the
work within EDC and specially the two ongoing projects – a Youth Start-up Kit
and a promotion DVD. A pre-version of the promotion DVD was showed. The DVD
will be in English, German, French, Spanish and Russian language. The material
will be a public domain, free of charge for all.
Mr. Liljelund informed of the
background of the Development Board (DB) and the co-operation between the DB
and the EDC. Mr Liljelund mentioned amongst other things the development plan
that is to be established for Germany in cooperation with DUB and the
manufacturers.
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5 Marketing function in general and
due to loss of Axel Wester (enclosure 2)
Mr.
Lindström presented the current aims, current situation and the future and
wishes of MIC.
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6 Economical point of view in
connection with Hohenmölsen implications and
how
to deal with marketing function
Raising
of membership fees & participation fees.
Basically
the opinion is that staff and office costs shall be borne by the associations,
and not by sponsors, since this is considered “extras”.
National
proposals to solve the issues should be sent to IFF – to be discussed and
decided at the next meeting.
§ 7 Associations
Presidents proposals on how to deal with general work and marketing work within
IFF (all, plenary discussion)
Basically
the opinion is that staff and office costs shall be borne by the associations,
not sponsors.
National
proposals to solve the issues should be sent to IFF – to be discussed and
decided at the next meeting. Concerning the income from sponsorships it shall
be used, mainly, to finance the development programs within IFF.
§ 8 Possible
solutions on marketing function and general IFF administrative work (all,
plenary discussion)
Concerning
the income from sponsorships it shall be used, mainly, to finance the
development programs within IFF. Basically the opinion was that the IFF should
ask all ordinary members for different possible solutions, and after having
considered them, invite for another meeting, preferably as soon as possible,
possibly in Prague in the Czech Republic during the U19 WFC for men in November
2003.
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9 Timetable and eventual setting of
solutions and eventual second associations Presidents
meeting
(all, plenary discussion, and conclusions Mr Eriksson)
Conclusions:
There is a need of another
meeting, to be held in Prague, Czech Republic during the Men’s U19 WFC.
Questions will be put forth to the ordinary members to reply to and later the
replies will be distributed. The IFF will carry on to employ a second person at
the office.
Questions for all ordinary
members of IFF to look at and come back will possible solutions/proposals:
The ordinary members of IFF
shall answer the questions as soon as possible, preferably
not later then
October 23, 2003.
The next meeting will be in
Prague during the WFC U19 for men, on Sunday November 9, 2003, at 0900-1200
hours in Prague at the Sparta Arena.
Yours sincerely,
Tomas Eriksson Stefan Kratz
President Secretary general
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Czech
Republic/ Mr Martin Vaculik, member and CB
Estonia/Mr Ain
Lillepalu, President
Finland/Mr
Matti Ahde, President and Mr John Liljelund, vice President and vice President
of IFF
Norway/Mr
Kjell Hovland-Olsen, President
Sweden/Mr
Per Jansson, President and CB
Switzerland/Mr
Renato Orlando, President and vice President of IFF
Russia/Mr
Anton Nilov, secretary general and Mr Vyacheslav Kalinin, marketing director
IFF/Mr Tomas
Eriksson, President of IFF
IFF/Mr Peter
Lindström, member of CB
IFF/Mr Risto
Kauppinen, member of CB
IFF/Mr
Stefan Kratz, secretary general of IFF
Denmark/Mrs
Mona Aagaard, vice President
Poland
is not participating since they are under IFF
suspension starting from August 1st, 2003.