Apply for APPEL Funding
As a member of APPEL, you can apply for funding for projects promoting the Ecole de Légèreté – whether you're planning a presentation at a horse fair or a Légèreté demonstration at your own stables. Funding could be granted, for example, through the payment of subsidies or by providing a budget for fairs.
To ensure that funds can be properly granted for a planned project, we recommend that you submit a project description to the President of the association, Sylvia Stössel, by 31 October of the year before the event is to take place (email to appel.edl@gmail.com). Please make sure to include a realistic cost estimate.
As a rule, projects will only be eligible for financial support if they relate to the Ecole de Légèreté as a whole; projects promoting individual teachers will not be funded.
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Projects supported by APPEL so far
Dear Members of APPEL,
We would like to thank you very much for supporting the Ecole de Légèreté and its projects through your membership in APPEL, the sponsors’ association of the school.
Thanks to your membership fees and additional promotional contributions, we have been able to fund a growing number of presentations and projects promoting the school in the past years. These have significantly contributed to spreading the word about the philosophy of Légèreté in numerous countries around the world.
Since the foundation of the association, the following projects and presentations of the Ecole de Légèreté have been granted APPEL funding:
April 2014 HansePferd horse fair Hamburg, Germany
November 2014 Fieracavalli horse fair Verona, Italy
March 2015 Equitana horse fair Essen, Germany
April 2015 BEA horse fair Bern, Switzerland
April 2015 Nordpferd horse fair Neumünster, Germany
October 2015 Faszination Pferd horse fair Nuremberg, Germany
July 2015 Equirando horse trekking festival Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
November 2015 Fieracavalli horse fair Verona, Italy
April 2016 BEA horse fair Bern, Switzerland
April 2016 HansePferd horse fair Hamburg, Germany
June 2016 Youth promotion workshop Beselich-Schupbach, Germany
July 2016 Arena classical dressage festival Sparreholm, Sweden
September 2016 Andalusian World Cup Las Vegas, USA
November 2016 Fieracavalli horse fair Verona, Italy
March 2017 Equitana horse fair Essen, Germany
June 2017 Youth promotion workshop Beselich-Schupbach, Germany
November 2017 Faszination Pferd horse fair Nuremberg, Germany
November 2017 Fieracavalli horse fair Verona, Italy
April 2018 Mane Event / Red Deer Alberta, Canada
April 2018 HansePferd horse fair Hamburg, Germany
June 2018 Open Day Ecole de Légèreté Kleindöttingen, Switzerland
June 2018 Youth promotion workshop Beselich-Schupbach, Germany
October 2018 Fieracavalli horse fair Verona, Italy
November 2018 Equitana horse fair Melbourne, Australia
March 2019 Equitana horse fair Essen, Germany
June 2019 Open Day Ecole de Légèreté Kleindöttingen, Switzerland
November 2019 Fieracavalli horse fair Verona, Italy
Unfortunately, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, most of the major events in 2020 and 2021 where you would have been able to watch the work of the Ecole de Légèreté had to be cancelled.
To enable you to benefit from its teachings nonetheless, the School enhanced its digital presence during this time. You will find a selection of online lectures and conferences on the page Online Events and Digital Media.
In 2022, we're starting in person in Germany again with presentations of the Ecole de Légèreté at Equitana, the world's biggest horse fair, from 7 to 13 April.
We’re looking forward to meeting you at one of these events!