The WBYO was initiated and implemented by Artium Eudora (ArtEU), an NGO with its seat in Pristina, Kosovo. The key persons involved are WBYO Artistic Director Desar Sulejmani, an Albanian-born conductor and pianist living in Essen/Germany, who generated the idea after the extremely positive experience with the European Summer Music Academies, and Pierre Weber, a Luxembourgish composer and pianist, who functions as the Executive Director of Artium Eudora.