Participants: According to enclosure 1

1. OPENING, PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Eriksson greeted the participants welcome to the 2^nd President’s Meeting and talked about the year that has passed since the Congress 1998.

Mr. Eriksson noted that IFF has now reached 20 member Associations meaning that the possibility to become members of GAISF now is a reality.

Thereafter all participants presented themselves.

2. EDC: REVIEW OF WORK DONE AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
Mr. Jansson, Chairman of EDC presented what has been done and what can be done regarding education and development.

The meeting was split into three groups according to the EDC division of the floorball world for discussions within the groups.

After the discussions a report was made from each group where, among other topics, the spreading of information, spreading of the sport to new countries, translations of material, video productions etc. were discussed.

3. WFC 2000
Mr. Jonsson presented the WFC 2000 and the present situation of the organization.
Further Mr. Jonsson reported on the discussions held with NRK, the Norwegian National Television Company which will produce the WFC, and asked for help from each Association
to work on their own TV Company on sending from the WFC.

4. WFC 2001
Mr. Dzenis presented the WFC 2001.

5. SEVELIUS: HOW TO WORK ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
Mr. Sevelius gave an introduction of himself and the organization ENGSO where he is the President.

An expose on how different languages, cultures effects the thinking and acting was given.

Mr. Sevelius shared some point-of-views on what is important in the international work.

In his opinion it is important to be known:
as a person with experience, as a person who has the right to take actions, as a person that is fair, as a person that listens and let people have their opinions

Since it is important to be introduced on the international scene Mr. Sevelius suggested the use of mentorship as one way to reach acknowledgement.

Other points that Mr. Sevelius pointed at was: Floorball – it is important only to use one name, it is important to find the most important target group to market Floorball both Nationally and Internationally and it is important to have a good product – which Floorball is.

Further Mr. Sevelius talked about Actions to be taken before-during-after International Congresses/Conferences.

6. CONCLUSIONS/ANY OTHER BUSINESS
The possibility to ask questions in any field was given.

Mr. Jansson thanked all participants for their contributions during the meeting and thereafter Mr. Eriksson thanked the participants wishing all good luck with the upcoming work and awarded each and everyone with the memory medal of the Women's World Championships 1999 and declared the 2^nd President's Meeting closed.

Enclosure 1

Participants:

*=Double functions

Member Associations

Austria Werner Daves President
Heidemarie Leb

Australia Rainer Martiskin President

Czech Republic Frantisek Babak President
Martin Vaculik Member of the Board*

Denmark Ole Peltola President

Estonia Ain Lillepalu President*

Finland Risto Kauppinen President*
Jari Oksanen

Germany Arndt Rüger President
Johannes Baur Vice President

Great Britain David R. May President

Japan Sadao Saito President
Atsuko Nakayama Vice President
Yosuke Watanabe Interpreter

Latvia Andris Dzenis Secretary General

Norway Kjell Hovland Olsen President
Heidi Tofterå Chairman of the Floorball section

Poland Mariusz Machnikowski President
Ewa Zoltowska International affairs

Singapore Farouk Marican

Sweden Malin Hartman Member of the board
Axel Wester Secretary General

Switzerland Renato Orlando Member of the board
Serge Guillet Secretary General

IFF Central Board and Committee members

CB: Tomas Eriksson President
CB & EDC V.Chairman: Thomas Gilardi Member of the board
CB & EDC Chairman: Per Jansson Member of the board
CB: Tomas Jonsson Treasurer
CB & RACC Chairman: Risto Kauppinen Member of the board*
CB: Ain Lillepalu Member of the board*
CB & MIC Chairman: Peter Lindström Member of the board
CB: Martin Vaculik Member of the board*
SAG: Bengt Sevelius Member
IFF Office: Stefan Kratz Secretary General