1st Step
After the final entry date, the Technical Committee makes a preliminary selection of candidates excluding only clearly non-conforming entries, i.e. those not utilizing nor dealing with science and technology, those technically not working, those over the size limits, those using languages different from Italian or English, those sent after the deadline, and so on.

2nd Step
The Technical Committee then examines the candidates, excluding those considered unanimously less interesting, although strictly speaking admissible, reducing the candidates to about 60-80 works.

3rd Step
The Technical Committee then selects a set of 5 candidates per category, who are classified as finalists. The remaining candidates are classified as semi-finalists.

4th Step
The Pirelli Internetional Award jury consists of five separate panels, each tasked with evaluating science communication works in a specific scientific field. The five panels represent the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences and ICT. Each jury panel now examines the finalists in their field and elects the category winner.

Except for the Top Pirelli Prize, which is voted on by all jurors, the jurors do not vote on or influence decisions made by the panels outside their field.

The Pirelli Group reserves the right to not assign one or more prizes in a given category in the event all candidates fail to meet minimal standards of quality or relevance. Similarly, the Pirelli group reserves the right to extend a special prize to finalists of note consisting of a Finalist Honourable Mention badge for their websites.