• Alois Woldan, Professor of the University of Vienna, Deputy Director of the Institute of Slavic Studies (Austria);
• Roman Mnich, Deputy Director of the Institute of Neolinguistics, Professor of the Natural University of Humanities in Siedlce city (Poland);
• Alfred Sproede, Professor of the University of Münster (Germany);
• Mykola Mushinka, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor of Preshivsk University (Slovakia);
• Miroslav Sopolyga, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Museum of Ukrainian Culture in Svidnik (Slovakia);
• Agnieszka Matusiak, Professor of the Wroclaw University, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies (Poland);
• Peter Stoeger, Professor of the University of Innsbruck (Austria);
• Yaroslav  Garasym, Vice Rector of Lviv University named by I. Franko, professor (Ukraine);
• Volodymyr Antofiichuk, Professor of the Chernivtsi National University named by V.Stefanyk (Ukraine);
• Viacheslav Kushnir, Professor of Odessa University named by  Mechnikov (Ukraine);
• Mykhailo Shalata, Professor of Drohobych Pedagogical University named by I. Franko (Ukraine);
• Ulrich Schmid, Professor of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

According to the Regulations, the jury is formed on the basis of parity and interdisciplinary scientific disciplines presented by scientific papers-nominees; jury consists of scientists who are fluent in languages that correspond to the languages of the original scientific papers -nominees; the members of the jury must have academic degree no lower than doctorate and be independent and objective in selecting the award winner.

On August 05, 2016 in University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) the International Jury announced the first Laureate of Ivan Franko International Prize. In nomination  “For significant personal contribution to the development of social and humanitarian sciences” The Monograph of Blessed Lubomyr Husar under the title “Metropolitan Andrii Sheptytsky, a Galician forerunner of ecumenism” had received the highest score of the Jury.

The ceremony of awarding the Laureates will take place on August 27, 2016 on the native land of Ivan Franko in Drohobych (Lviv region, Ukraine.)