To honor those who have made a significant contribution to the accordion movement or accordion organisation. Recipients may be either accordionists or non-accordionists who have had an outstanding influence in supporting and promoting the accordion.
| YEAR | NAME and COUNTRY | CONGRESS |
| 2003 | Marie
JONES (New Zealand) Vivian & Steve STORALUK (USA) Gary BLAIR (Scotland) Milan TOMIC (Yugoslavia) |
STUROVO,
SLOVAKIA ESZTERGOM, HUNGARY |
| 2004 | Jenny
COCURULLO (New Zealand) Hank OOST (Holland) Werner WEIBERT (Austria) |
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM |
| 2005 | Jacob
NOORDZIJ (Austria) Nguyen PHUC LINH (Vietnam) Arthur SQUINDO (Switzerland) Laszlo ERNYEI (Hungary) |
DEN HELDER, NETHERLANDS |
| 2006 | June
JONES (Australia) Helmi HARRINGTON (USA) Pauline NOON (United Kingdom) |
IKAALINEN, FINLAND |
| 2007 | Jeroen
NIJHOF (Netherlands) Jan TABACHNIK (Ukraine) Elaine BEECHAM (United Kingdom) |
NAGIGIA ISLAND, FIJI |
| 2008 | Friedl
PREISL (Austria) Herwig PEYCHÄR (Austria) Silvio De PRA (New Zealand) Sylvia PRIOR (USA) |
SKOPJE, MACEDONIA |
| 2009 | Holda
PAOLETTI-KAMPL (Italy) Gary DAVERNE (New Zealand) Fridrich NAGY (Slovakia) Alfred MIREK (Russia) |
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA |
| 2010 | John
STATHAM (New Zealand) Alexander CHOLMINOV (Russia) |
IKALINEN, FINLAND |
| 2012 | Ken FARRAN (United Kingdom) | MIESBACH, GERMANY |
| 2014 | Marco CINAGLIA (Italy) | EASTERN SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA |
| 2015 | Elizabeta ILIEVSKA (Macedonia) | TURKU, FINLAND |
| 2016 | Hermi KALETA (Austria) Massimo PIGINI (Italy) |
CALABRIA, ITALY |
| 2017 | Anna BODELL (United Kingdom) |
NÜRNBERG, GERMANY (held in December 2016) |
| 2019 | Jianhua TONG (China) | TALLIN, ESTONIA |
| 2022 | Alois BREITFUSS (Austria) | ZOFINGEN, SWITZERLAND |
| 2024 | Ingvar KARLSSON (Sweden) | KUNGSBACKA, SWEDEN |
