Diploma Projects are evaluated first in Architectural Schools and then the best 2 from each school in an international jury. The jury in 2016 consisted of following members:

• Arch. Luciano Lazzari (President ACE and Jury President)
• Prof. Karl Otto Ellefsen (President EAAE & Professor at Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
• Prof. Ph.D. Arch. Marian Moiceanu (Rector UAUIM)
• Arch. Saša Randić (Randić and Associates)
• Arch. Bryan Avery (Avery Associates Architects)

The jury unanimously agreed upon the following awards:

European Architectural Medal – Medal for Best Diploma Project
Re-Constructing Porto: the Massarellos school of construction by Michael Lewis from University of Bath, United Kingdom

ACE prize for societal impact
Berlin Palimpsest – Repurposing Urban Fragments for Community Agency by Rachel Tan from Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom

EAAE Prize for Intensity and Courage in Problem Solving
A Symbiotic Relation of Cooperative Social Housing and Dispersed Tourism in Havana Vieja. Development and model for architectural prototypes by Iwo Borkowicz from KU Leuven – Faculty of Architecture, Belgium

UAUIM Award for the Artistic Quality
Chandigarh: Stone, Steel, Timber. Kindergarden in a Natural Environment by Alejandro Martínez del Río from Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de la Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

In addition the jury gave 3 honourable mentions:

Honourable Mention
Muziris [re] Discover by Julián Leopoldo Gil Benegasi from Escuela de Arquitectura y Tecnología, Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC), Spain

Honourable Mention
Sub_Zero – Life Beyond Parking by Dionysios Koutsioumaris, Argyris Chronopoulos, Georgios Fiorentinos from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

Honourable Mention
Amazonia Pier: Manufacturing an Architecture of Pleasure by Julien Nolin from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark