Greatness Challenge

The Greatness Challenge is an amazing opportunity for young professional creatives to sit in as part of the international jury of the prestigious ADCE Awards. This one-of-a-kind educational opportunity gives junior jurors insight into the evaluation criteria and processes followed by senior jury members. Participants are locally selected and must meet specific eligibility criteria.

Each year the ADCE proposes a “Creative Challenge” and its successful completion, ensures each young professional a seat in the jury. National teams are asked to design and execute a creative crowdfunding campaign that would supply them with the necessary funds to travel to and stay in Barcelona coinciding with the celebration of the ADCE Awards. Moreover, once in Spain, the Board members will evaluate the different works and choose one winning project for that respective year.

Meet the participants!

For the 2025 Greatness Challenge edition, a total of five teams coming from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal and Switzerland successfully achieved the challenge and made it to Barcelona for the Judging Days (18th and 19th of November).

Get to know them and their projects.

“Fuel the Journey”

Team Bulgaria – Mirela Slavova & Dimana Shopova

“Who are we to judge?”

Team Czech Republic – Michaela Tvrdikova & Ivanna Yovzhiy

“Creative Quest”

Team Lithuania – Simona Kačerauskaitė & Deimilė Janonytė

“Find a Creative”

Team Portugal – Carolina Rodrigues & Pedro Chula

“Spark Award”

Team Switzerland – Patricia Schneider & Josephine Jeanguenin

See previous editions winners

2024

A total of four teams from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine made it to Barcelona.
Lukáš Novák and Ondřej Vošmera from Czech Republic were selected as winners with “Media campaign for Newton University”

2023

A total of five teams from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal and Switzerland made it to Barcelona.
Carlota Real and Maria Branco from Portugal were selected as winners with “Portuguese Media Sponsors“

2022

Last year, a total of six teams from Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine have taken part in the challenge.
Valeriia Havryliuk and Viktoriia Kryvynets from Ukraine received the Greatness Challenge Award for “Homeland“.

2021

Seven teams from Latvia, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Italy and Spain have taken part in the challenge of 2021: How do you tackle the climate crisis in your daily life as a creative?. Gonçalo Cimadeira Soares and Xavier Lopes from Everis NTT DATA (Portugal) received the Greatness Challenge Award for ‘r/EcoAnxious‘.

r/EcoAnxious
Creatives
Gonçalo Cimadeira Soares and Xavier Lopes
Country
Portugal

2020

A total of 8 teams from Latvia, Portugal, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, Finland, Georgia and Ukraine successfully achieved the challenge to show the local creative spirit of the place. For the first time, we had two winning teams! Saana Simander & Lara Ala-Olla (TBWAHelsinki) and João Elias & Luis Paladino (FCB Lisbon).

2019

A total of 5 teams from Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine successfully raised the funds to come and join the international jury of the ADCE Awards 2019. Fernando Silva and Pedro Barroso from Wunderman Thompson (Portugal) received the Greatness Challenge Award for ‘Credits for Credits’.

Credits for Credits
Creatives
Fernando Silva & Pedro Barroso
Country
Portugal

2018

5 teams from Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland and
Ukraine successfully raised the funds to come and join the international jury of the ADCE Awards 2018. Mariia Dorokhina and Iryna Blinova from Aimbulance (Ukraine) received the Greatness Challenge Award for ‘ADBET‘, a platform to enable people to bet on the outcome of the ADCE Judging.

ADBET
Creatives
Mariia Dorokhina & Iryna Blinova
Country
Ukraine

2017

A total of 6 teams from Portugal, Ukraine, Slovakia, Switzerland, Romania and United Kingdom successfully raised the funds to come and join the international jury of the 26th edition of the ADCE Best of European Design and Advertising Awards. Portuguese team Elsa Rodrigues and Inês Coelho’s typographic project ‘Barna Type’ was the overall winner, delighting judges with its original idea and craft focus.

Barna Typeface
Creatives
Elsa Rodrigues & Inês Coelho
Country
Portugal

2016

In 2016, the Greatness Challenge brought to Barcelona 8 teams who successfully raised the funds to come and join the international jury of the 25th edition of the Best of European Design and Advertising ADCE Awards.

Uncensored Brands

Creatives
Maria Bessa & Rui Samoes

Country
Portugal

2015

In 2015, the Greatness Challenge brought to Barcelona 8 teams who successfully raised the funds to come and join the international jury of the 24th edition of the Best of European Design and Advertising ADCE Awards.

Creatives
Anton Kudinov

Country
Ukraine