At the competition that lasted for 6 months 1869 students coming from 52 countries from each continent applied 2674 posters in total.
Jury members – Paula Troxler (Switzerland), Lasko Dzurovski (Macedonia), Götz Gramlich (Germany), Péter Pócs (Hungary), Peter Bankov(Russia) did 2 pre-live online selections which resulted in 100 finalist posters that will take place at the main venue of the 8.