Ski Orienteering Commission

Remit

Strategic initiative nr.1

Establish and execute a strategy for robust cooperation with FISU

  • Ensure quality and development of SkiO in FISU. Work with existing and potential FISU SkiO Championships Candidates
  • Strengthen SkiO as a mandatory discipline of the Winter World University Games and make it visible and attractive
  • Motivate as many nations as possible for the FISU competitions

School activities and relevant youth initiatives are organised

  • Support GDC to introduce ski-orienteering in new countries and territories, and encourage IOF regions to conduct regional youth/junior competitions

Strategic initiative nr.2

Collaborate with Event Partners and Broadcasters to enhance the TV product

  • Promote and support professional arena production for World Championships and Winter World University Games
  • Work closely with the IOF Office and the SEAs to enhance arena production

Concentrate efforts on select partners, vital for youth development (FISU)

  • Work on popularization our sport during FISU events

Strategic initiative nr.3

At least one event application for the other IOF Major Events

  • Work with potential organisers and ensure at least one application for each IOF SkiO event within deadline
  • Evaluate sustainability of a decision to have WSOC and World Cup as annual events
  • Establish a mid-term plan for allocation of IOF major events as basis for discussions with potential candidates

Institute a systematic appointment process and enhance event support for IOF Major Events

  • Assess event applications for IOF major events including timely proposals to Council on the appointment of organisers
  • Work together with IOF Office to organise as easy and low costs as possible

Assess and establish criteria for all IOF championships

Implement Event Quality index

  • Ensure that the required quality for major IOF events is persistent, concentrate on WSOC, ESOC quality
  • To have a collaboration between the most experienced SEAs
  • Ensure map control process for major IOF events. Collaborate with the Map Commission in monitoring map quality of IOF SkiO events
  • Assess event reports from organisers and Event Advisers
  • Develop and implement improved event advising and recruit new EAs. Propose Event Advisers and Senior Event Advisers for major IOF events for Council approval

All athletes respect and follow fair-play rules

  • Participate in the IOF Fair Play Project

The usability and readability of the IOF rules have been improved for all stakeholders

  • Update and publish Handbook how to organise SkiO event
  • Ensure that rules, guidelines, manuals for SkiO are placed in IOF website, updated and can be found easy

Strategic initiative nr.4

Implement digital meeting tools

  • One physical SOC Meetings per year – during WOC or during ESOC or WSOC (with exeptions)
  • Four digital meetings regular and when needed

Use digitalisation to improve the efficiency and achievement of targets within the IOF organisation

  • All relevant documents are created centrally in MS 365 (IOF)

Remits IOF Commissions 2025-26


Meetings

The Ski Orienteering Commission should aim at meeting three times a year.

The meeting schedule should include:

– The annual joint meeting of the Council and Commissions
– The biennial IOF Congress
– The World Ski Orienteering Championships

Open Meetings

24 November, 2024 – Presentation below

8 September, 2022 – Presentations below

29 June, 2021 – Presentations below

Recording of the meeting

Members Ski Orienteering Commission

Chairperson - Markku Vauhkonen (FIN)

m_vauhkonen (at) yahoo.com

Functional responsibilities: Chairperson of the Commission.

Adrian Wickert (AUT)

adrian.wickert (at) gmx.at

Functional responsibilities: WRE, Organizer Guidelines, Ski O Tour, Arena Productions,
Geographic responsibilities: Austria, Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary, Slovakia.

Thierry Jeanneret (SUI)

thierry.jeanneret (at) gmx.ch

Functional responsibilities: promotion and coordination of the international ski orienteering calendar, Youth development.
Geographic Responsibilities: Italy, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, France, Belgium, USA, Canada.

Bernd Kohlschmidt (GER)

kohlschmidt (at) yahoo.de

Functional responsibilities:
Geographic Responsibilities:

Tatsuma Shibata (JPN)

shibata (at) ids.co.jp

Øyvind Wiggen (NOR)

oyvindwigg1 (at) gmail.com

Gunars Ikaunieks (LAT)

gunars21 (at) inbox.lv