While the main conference in Switzerland has been executed since 1997, the Model WTO International umbrella organization was founded in 2016 by two former presidents of the organization team of the main conference as a result of the high demand for conference participation and success of the possibilities it creates for the students. Currently, three regional conference have already been executed in Belgrade, Serbia; Tunis, Tunisia and Bologna, Italy. Two more are being prepared to be launched in 2019-2020, namely: San Jose, Costa Rica and Edinburgh, Scotland. The student-run initiative is officially supported by the WTO and ICC Switzerland.