On October 22, 2016,  the meeting of the Management Board of Ivan Franko International Fund has been in Lviv.

The Board of Ivan Franko International Fund approved the Schedule for 2017, and amended the Provision of the Prize.

The event was attended: Igor Kurus, director of the Foundation; Woldan Aloiis, Professor of the University of Vienna, Director of the Institute of Slavic Studies (Austria);  Roman Mnykh, Professor of Natural Humanities University in Siedlce, Deputy Director of the Institute of Neolinguistics (Republic of Poland); Yaroslav Harasym, Doctor of Philology, professor, vice-rector of Ivan Franko Lviv National University;  Borys Bunchuk, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Yu. Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;  Volodymyr Antofiichuk, Doctor of Philology, Professor of Yu. Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;  Mykhailo Shalata, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Professor of Drohobych University; Yevhen Nakhlik, Doctor of Philology, professor, Director of Ivan Franko Institute of the NAS of Ukraine; Tamara Smovzhenko, Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Chairman of the Lviv Society in Kyiv.