Location: Mexico, several locations
Duration: 2-day course

ESI has organised and designed a unique course to train grooms about horses and their needs. This course is designed in collaboration with the Dutch embassy in Mexico City. ESI teaches how professional riders and grooms take care of their horses, so every horse can perform optimally. Grooms take care of horses on a daily basis so they play an essential role in the performance and wellbeing. This course helps grooms to become experienced and educated horsemen.

Why educated grooms are important in your organisation:

• to enhance the horses’ performance
• to improve the horses’ wellbeing
• to work more efficiently in the stables
• to prevent diseases and accidents with horses
• to increase safety for both grooms and horses

ESI’s role: Organisation, design, development, training, PR & communication

Location: Xinqiao, China
Duration: October 2014- March 2015

The aim of this project is to increase the level of the riders and stable management. One part of the riders will be educated to qualify for the China games, the other part of the riders should – in the end- be able to train their own horses independently. Heilan Equestrian centre offers China’s biggest and most popular horse show.

Topics of interest:

• Capacity building
• Process: focus on better integration of strategy, structure people, programs and systems
• Development and application of methods and principles throughout the organisation to produce results from stable staff, to trainers, riders and managers
• The development and implementation of an educational system that is permanent and can be maintained by HIEC

ESI’s role: Advisory on welfare, training of horses and riders, coordinator in China

Location: Europe
Duration: 3 years

The Erasmus is a European subsidy program for education, youth and sports. The basis is the belief that investment in education, training and non-formal learning are crucial to people – regardless of their age or background- to give the opportunity to continually evolve, in other words: to lifelong learning.

ESI’s role: Application design for educational innovation

Location: the Netherlands
Duration: 2014-2015
The FNRS (Dutch federation of equestrian centres) – an organisation that represents the equestrian entrepreneurs in the Netherlands- organises several courses for trainers, judged and entrepreneurs.

ESI’s role: responsible for the coordination of all the courses

Location: The Netherlands
Duration: 2 years

Both at Wellant college internally as  in the direct externally environment, development takes place. Because of that, Wellant college needs to readjust her vocational education. A development path was designed. In this program, a program team, facilitators and project groups work together to achieve higher quality, innovative and progressive vocational course that comply with laws and regulations.

ESI participated in the design of the three equestrian courses. One 4 year course to become an instructor and two 3 year courses to become an equestrian manager or to become a yard facilitator.

ESI’s role: curriculum design and development

Location: The Netherlands, university of applied science
Duration: Three months

During the Communication, Didactics and Equestrianism module, several intensive training sessions are provided by qualified equestrian trainers and teachers. In connection therewith assessment is conducted at differentiated levels and degrees of depth.

ESI’s role: Training and curriculum design

 

Location: Curacao, Dutch Antilles
Duration: 2010 – 2012

Intensive training for members of the riding school. Providing an educational riding program, for both adults and children, under close supervision.

Focus points are safety, education and increasing the level of the riders.

ESI’s role: Training and coaching, development and design

Location: The Netherlands
Duration: 2010 -2015

The FNRS (Dutch federation of equestrian centers) is an association for equestrian entrepreneurs. As a business advisor, you are responsible for the multi-annual plan and budget of the association.

Furthermore, advising entrepreneurs in the field of finance, planning, customer service, communication, safety, quality and business operations are part of beeing a business advisor.

ESI’s role: Business advisor

Location:  The Netherland
Duration: 2009 -2014

The FNRS (Dutch federation of equestrian centers) instructors training, is a training program for future instructors who take care of novice till advanced level riders. The training consists of the following components:

• Taking care of riding lessons, both individual and group lessons
• Dressage and jumping
• Theory (about didactics, pedagogics, horse care, the rider, nutrition, health and more)

This training was provided in collaboration with National Equestrian college NHB Deurne.

ESI’s role: teacher & trainer