Every two years, the FIS SnowKidz Award is presented and has become a highlight of the programme.

In our series "FIS Ski Jumping-Talk" we present interviews with ski jumping athletes and officials. Today: Walter Hofer, FIS Race Director.

From 5th to 7th of October PRINOTH’s headquarter in Sterzing, Italy hosted the 2nd FIS Ski and Snowboard Course Builder and Designer Clinic.

Originally scheduled for Saturday 14th November 2015, the intention is now for Freeze Big Air to take place during early 2016 at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

With just under 130 days to go to the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer (NOR), this coming February, the Organisers presented their final preparations to the IOC Coordination Commission – of which FIS President Gian Franco Kasper is a member – this week.

The goal of the 13th Youth and Children's Seminar was to look at how to use social media to person benefit. The seminar went into looking at what social media is, how it can be used ethically and how can dangers of social media can be avoided.

The FIS Autumn Meetings in Zürich 2015 contained two Nordic Combined-centered meetings with the gatherings of the Executive Board and the Nordic Combined Committee who made some decisions coming into effect in the upcoming winter season, shaping the future of the discipline.

On Friday 2nd October, the FIS Alpine World Cup Sub-Committee met at the FIS Autumn Meetings in Zurich to discuss different matters regarding the World Cup

The Audi FIS World Cup parallel slalom race, scheduled for 1st January 2016 in Munich (GER), has been cancelled.

At the traditional fall meetings of the International Ski Federation FIS, the committees and sub-committees of the various disciplines convened in Zurich this week.