In the Swiss National Exhibition, Rang II, participated 61 exhibits which received 28 Gold medals and 15 of Vermeil
In the Alpe Adria 2014 International Exhibition participated 74 exhibits received 24 Gold medals and 17 of Vermeil.
Formed the international Jury:
President: Kurt Kimmel
Vicepresident: Giovanni Balimann
Members: Giacomo Bottacchi, Hadmar Fresacher, Istvan Glatz, Damian Läge, Julije Maras, Kurt MärkiJörg Meier, Claude Montadon, Igor Pirc , Ubaldo Urietti, Martin Geser, Peter Suter.
From left to right: Ivan Libric, coordinator for the 2015 Alps-Adria exhibition, Mladen Vilfan, delegate of Croatia, Dr. Hadmar Fresacher from Austria as all time Secretary, Heimo Tschernatsch, delegate of Austria, Dr. Ludwig Gambert, new President of the Alps-Adria Philately Group from Germany, Igor Pirc, delegate from Slovenia, Jvo Bader, past A-A President from Switzeland, Thomas Bauer, observer from Germany, Dott. Sandro Agostosi, delegate from Italy, Denes Czirok, delegate from Hungary and Jörg Maier, delegate from Germany.
Palmares: Gianfranco Bellini, Roberto Leber, Helmuth Avi and Alvise Budel, exhibitors receiving their awards; Adriano Bergamini, General Commissioner of Alpe Adria 2014, Jean-Marc Seydoux, President of the Swiss Federation making his speech, and Roland Ammann, exhibitor.
The Alpe Adria Group was formed in 1978 by the neighbouring regions of the Alps mountains and the Adriatic sea: The Friuli-Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, the Province of Carinthia, the SR Croatia, the Province of Upper Austria, the SR Slovenia, the Province of Styria and the Veneto Region. They belong to the Philatelic Federations of Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland.
The extremely successful series of Alpe Adria will continue in 2015 in Pöllau, Austria.
The seminar will be organized by Bund Deutscher Philatelisten (BDPh), and the responsible person is Thomas Hoepfner, who is a BDPh board member. The main part, the training, will be about Postal History and Thematic Philately. Two high profile philatelists have agreed to lead the groups: Dr. Wolf Heß for Postal History and Vojtech Jankovic for Thematic Philately. Both will give keynote presentations.
The Postal History presentation will be on “Treatment and importance”, and one of the main questions that will be answered is the possible influence on other judging criteria. Another aspect will be to examine the reasons why there may be a disconnect between exhibitors and jurors when it comes to rating treatment and importance. In Thematic Philately the title of the presentation will be “How to judge innovation”, and this will be about the term itself and how innovation is part of the composition of an exhibit. In addition to that there will be an analysis how innovation is interwoven with other udging areas such as philatelic material.
To make the training as “real” as possible, there will be exhibits displayed in frames. The judging will be done in small teams, and afterwards the results will be consolidated and analysed. This will be the basis for in-depth discussions, and the target will be to identify critical areas and to find a common understanding regarding a fair and objective judging. Finally, there will be the chance to draw conclusions and – if that makes sense – agree on follow-up actions.
After the seminar, you will be able to read here its main results.
https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Traspaso-de-la-Bandera-de-la-FEPA-to-Berlin-2014-crop.jpg281444José Ramón Morenohttps://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fepanews_logo-107x138-1.pngJosé Ramón Moreno2014-10-09 13:34:162017-11-11 19:24:07The FEPA flag goes to Berlin for the jury seminar
The silvered tray they received was engraved with this text:
FEPA 25TH ANNIVERSARY
THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN
PHILATELIC ASSOCIATIONS
TO Mr. ALAN HUGGINS,
TO Mr. PEDRO VAZ PEREIRA,
TO Mr. JØRGEN JØRGENSEN,
HONORARY PRESIDENT OF FEPA
FOR HIS EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION
TO THE EUROPEAN PHILATELY
LUGANO, 13 SEPTEMBER 2014
The Honorary Presidents Mr. Alan Huggins, Mr. Pedro Vaz Pereira, and Jørgen Jørgensen receiving their silvered trays.
MESSAGES FROM OUR HONORARY PRESIDENTS
FEPA 25th Anniversary
I greatly appreciate the kind invitation from our current President José Ramón Moreno to write a few words on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the formation of the Federation of European Philatelic Societies (FEPA).
The early history of the meetings held during 1987-89, which led to the formation of FEPA in 1989 was recorded in a FEPA Handbook published almost exactly twenty years ago and distributed at the FEPAPOST ’94 exhibition which was held in The Hague.
By that time FEPA had become firmly established alongside FIAF and FIAP as an Associate Member of FIP and was confidently looking forward to the challenge of building up the position of European philately both within Europe and on a worldwide basis.
During the subsequent twenty years much has changed in the world of philately, and all those who love and continue to support the hobby face even greater challenges to—day if we are to maintain its appeal to future generations. To do so will require ever closer collaboration between philatelic organisations at local, national and international levels, and Continental Federations, such as FEPA , have an important ongoing role to play as we see the profile of collecting progressively changing from often being the result of a common childhood experience into a more selective and specialized adult pursuit.
Having been directly involved personally with the initial formation of FEPA it gives me very great pleasure to see it celebrate its 25″‘ Birthday and wish it every success in the future. In addition I would like to express my warm appreciation to all those who have given, and continue to give, their time and commitment to achieve the objects set out in the FEPA Constitution for the benefit of the wider philatelic community.
Alan Huggins, Honorary President
FEPA 25 Years
FEPA is celebrating this year an important date in its life.
I am very proud because I had the opportunity to work as President in FEPA during 1/3 of its life!
But what was and what must be the target of FEPA? EUROPE is the stronger of the Continental Federations, but in the past it was the weaker of the Continental Federations!
Europe has different people, different countries, different languages. It is very difficult a FEPA President to maintain the unity of Europe …. and the other feel this and they are many times getting profit from this reality!
The FEPA target must be only the interests of the European National Federations.
However we have some people, who did not understand this reality and they are many times not defending the interests of the European exhibitors and National Federations, but mainly their personal interests. This never can happen.
It will be good in the future, if Europe is able again to elect in FIP Board their own representatives. This means that their representatives must defend the European interests and not also the South-American or Asiatic interests.
When we are member of the FEPA Board, we only must have careful with the National Federations and to treat all of them in the same level, to help them, to support them, to promote and defend the interests of the European National Federations.
I did it during my 8 years as FEPA President, and I only request the same to everybody, who are working in FEPA Board.
Philately is today something very serious to be spoilt by people, who is not interest in the philately.
So I must congratulate FEPA by its 25 years, and I expect that FEPA can be better and better in the next 25 years, where Europe can be in reality the stronger Continent.
I must wish to the new FEPA Board the best success and I am sure that José Ramón Moreno is a very competent man to do it, followed by their colleagues.
The future and success of FEPA and European philately is only in our hands! It will be what we wanted!
Pedro Vaz Pereira, Honorary President
My personal wishes at the 25th anniversary of FEPA.
First of all I will like to congratulate the 43 Member Associations and the FEPA Board with the 25 anniversary. Since the founding meeting in Bucharest back in 1989 the number of members is steady increased and FEPA counts actually most of the countries within Europe.
I see this development as a clear acceptance of the Founders idea: “Together we are stronger”.
All the FEPA associations actually face the same challenges – the numbers of organized philatelists are declining and the average age is increasing. How do we bend this trend? There is no simple answer to this challenge. But the result of 43 brains sharing their “best practices” among each other means to me that each individual member is better prepared for the future.
Nobody can do everything – everybody can do something together we can do everything!
I wish for our hobby Philately – FEPA and all the national Member Associations a good luck for the next 25 years. Together we are stronger. Jørgen Jørgensen, Honorary President
https://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/HP-Alan-Huggins-crop.jpg209274José Ramón Morenohttps://fepanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/fepanews_logo-107x138-1.pngJosé Ramón Moreno2014-10-06 13:36:152017-11-11 19:31:19Homage to the FEPA Honorary Presidents
Complete Palmares of ALPE-ADRIA 2014
There were two exhibitions:
In the Swiss National Exhibition, Rang II, participated 61 exhibits which received 28 Gold medals and 15 of Vermeil
In the Alpe Adria 2014 International Exhibition participated 74 exhibits received 24 Gold medals and 17 of Vermeil.
Formed the international Jury:
President: Kurt Kimmel
Vicepresident: Giovanni Balimann
Members: Giacomo Bottacchi, Hadmar Fresacher, Istvan Glatz, Damian Läge, Julije Maras, Kurt MärkiJörg Meier, Claude Montadon, Igor Pirc , Ubaldo Urietti, Martin Geser, Peter Suter.
From left to right: Ivan Libric, coordinator for the 2015 Alps-Adria exhibition, Mladen Vilfan, delegate of Croatia, Dr. Hadmar Fresacher from Austria as all time Secretary, Heimo Tschernatsch, delegate of Austria, Dr. Ludwig Gambert, new President of the Alps-Adria Philately Group from Germany, Igor Pirc, delegate from Slovenia, Jvo Bader, past A-A President from Switzeland, Thomas Bauer, observer from Germany, Dott. Sandro Agostosi, delegate from Italy, Denes Czirok, delegate from Hungary and Jörg Maier, delegate from Germany.
Palmares: Gianfranco Bellini, Roberto Leber, Helmuth Avi and Alvise Budel, exhibitors receiving their awards; Adriano Bergamini, General Commissioner of Alpe Adria 2014, Jean-Marc Seydoux, President of the Swiss Federation making his speech, and Roland Ammann, exhibitor.
The Alpe Adria Group was formed in 1978 by the neighbouring regions of the Alps mountains and the Adriatic sea: The Friuli-Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, the Province of Carinthia, the SR Croatia, the Province of Upper Austria, the SR Slovenia, the Province of Styria and the Veneto Region. They belong to the Philatelic Federations of Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland.
The extremely successful series of Alpe Adria will continue in 2015 in Pöllau, Austria.
The FEPA flag goes to Berlin for the jury seminar
The seminar will be organized by Bund Deutscher Philatelisten (BDPh), and the responsible person is Thomas Hoepfner, who is a BDPh board member. The main part, the training, will be about Postal History and Thematic Philately. Two high profile philatelists have agreed to lead the groups: Dr. Wolf Heß for Postal History and Vojtech Jankovic for Thematic Philately. Both will give keynote presentations.
The Postal History presentation will be on “Treatment and importance”, and one of the main questions that will be answered is the possible influence on other judging criteria. Another aspect will be to examine the reasons why there may be a disconnect between exhibitors and jurors when it comes to rating treatment and importance. In Thematic Philately the title of the presentation will be “How to judge innovation”, and this will be about the term itself and how innovation is part of the composition of an exhibit. In addition to that there will be an analysis how innovation is interwoven with other udging areas such as philatelic material.
To make the training as “real” as possible, there will be exhibits displayed in frames. The judging will be done in small teams, and afterwards the results will be consolidated and analysed. This will be the basis for in-depth discussions, and the target will be to identify critical areas and to find a common understanding regarding a fair and objective judging. Finally, there will be the chance to draw conclusions and – if that makes sense – agree on follow-up actions.
After the seminar, you will be able to read here its main results.
Homage to the FEPA Honorary Presidents
The silvered tray they received was engraved with this text:
FEPA 25TH ANNIVERSARY
THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN
PHILATELIC ASSOCIATIONS
TO Mr. ALAN HUGGINS,
TO Mr. PEDRO VAZ PEREIRA,
TO Mr. JØRGEN JØRGENSEN,
HONORARY PRESIDENT OF FEPA
FOR HIS EXCEPTIONAL CONTRIBUTION
TO THE EUROPEAN PHILATELY
LUGANO, 13 SEPTEMBER 2014
The Honorary Presidents Mr. Alan Huggins, Mr. Pedro Vaz Pereira, and Jørgen Jørgensen receiving their silvered trays.
MESSAGES FROM OUR HONORARY PRESIDENTS
FEPA 25th Anniversary
I greatly appreciate the kind invitation from our current President José Ramón Moreno to write a few words on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the formation of the Federation of European Philatelic Societies (FEPA).
The early history of the meetings held during 1987-89, which led to the formation of FEPA in 1989 was recorded in a FEPA Handbook published almost exactly twenty years ago and distributed at the FEPAPOST ’94 exhibition which was held in The Hague.
By that time FEPA had become firmly established alongside FIAF and FIAP as an Associate Member of FIP and was confidently looking forward to the challenge of building up the position of European philately both within Europe and on a worldwide basis.
During the subsequent twenty years much has changed in the world of philately, and all those who love and continue to support the hobby face even greater challenges to—day if we are to maintain its appeal to future generations. To do so will require ever closer collaboration between philatelic organisations at local, national and international levels, and Continental Federations, such as FEPA , have an important ongoing role to play as we see the profile of collecting progressively changing from often being the result of a common childhood experience into a more selective and specialized adult pursuit.
Having been directly involved personally with the initial formation of FEPA it gives me very great pleasure to see it celebrate its 25″‘ Birthday and wish it every success in the future. In addition I would like to express my warm appreciation to all those who have given, and continue to give, their time and commitment to achieve the objects set out in the FEPA Constitution for the benefit of the wider philatelic community.
Alan Huggins, Honorary President
FEPA 25 Years
FEPA is celebrating this year an important date in its life.
I am very proud because I had the opportunity to work as President in FEPA during 1/3 of its life!
But what was and what must be the target of FEPA? EUROPE is the stronger of the Continental Federations, but in the past it was the weaker of the Continental Federations!
Europe has different people, different countries, different languages. It is very difficult a FEPA President to maintain the unity of Europe …. and the other feel this and they are many times getting profit from this reality!
The FEPA target must be only the interests of the European National Federations.
However we have some people, who did not understand this reality and they are many times not defending the interests of the European exhibitors and National Federations, but mainly their personal interests. This never can happen.
It will be good in the future, if Europe is able again to elect in FIP Board their own representatives. This means that their representatives must defend the European interests and not also the South-American or Asiatic interests.
When we are member of the FEPA Board, we only must have careful with the National Federations and to treat all of them in the same level, to help them, to support them, to promote and defend the interests of the European National Federations.
I did it during my 8 years as FEPA President, and I only request the same to everybody, who are working in FEPA Board.
Philately is today something very serious to be spoilt by people, who is not interest in the philately.
So I must congratulate FEPA by its 25 years, and I expect that FEPA can be better and better in the next 25 years, where Europe can be in reality the stronger Continent.
I must wish to the new FEPA Board the best success and I am sure that José Ramón Moreno is a very competent man to do it, followed by their colleagues.
The future and success of FEPA and European philately is only in our hands! It will be what we wanted!
Pedro Vaz Pereira, Honorary President
My personal wishes at the 25th anniversary of FEPA.
First of all I will like to congratulate the 43 Member Associations and the FEPA Board with the 25 anniversary. Since the founding meeting in Bucharest back in 1989 the number of members is steady increased and FEPA counts actually most of the countries within Europe.
I see this development as a clear acceptance of the Founders idea: “Together we are stronger”.
All the FEPA associations actually face the same challenges – the numbers of organized philatelists are declining and the average age is increasing. How do we bend this trend? There is no simple answer to this challenge. But the result of 43 brains sharing their “best practices” among each other means to me that each individual member is better prepared for the future.
Nobody can do everything – everybody can do something together we can do everything!
I wish for our hobby Philately – FEPA and all the national Member Associations a good luck for the next 25 years. Together we are stronger.
Jørgen Jørgensen, Honorary President