Academic years at the College of Europe are known as promotions. Each promotion is named after an outstanding European. A list of the promotions follows:
- 1949 Préparatoire (no name)
- 1950-1951 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1951-1952 Juan Vives
- 1952-1953 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- 1953-1954 Erasmus
- 1954-1955 Alcide De Gasperi
- 1955-1956 Virgil
- 1956-1957 Raoul Dautry
- 1957-1958 Henry the Navigator
- 1958-1959 Fridtjof Nansen
- 1959-1960 Sully
- 1960-1961 Saint-Simon
- 1961-1962 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1962-1963 August Vermeylen
- 1963-1964 Thomas Paine
- 1964-1965 Robert Schuman
- 1965-1966 Thomas More
- 1966-1967 George C. Marshall
- 1967-1968 Comenius
- 1968-1969 Konrad Adenauer
- 1969-1970 William the Silent
- 1970-1971 Winston Churchill
- 1971-1972 Dante Alighieri
- 1972-1973 Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
- 1973-1974 Giuseppe Mazzini
- 1974-1975 Aristide Briand
- 1975-1976 Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
- 1976-1977 Peter Paul Rubens
- 1977-1978 Karl Renner
- 1978-1979 Paul-Henri Spaak
- 1979-1980 Salvador de Madariaga
- 1980-1981 Jean Monnet
- 1981-1982 Jan Willem Beyen
- 1982-1983 Joseph Bech
- 1983-1984 Jean Rey
- 1984-1985 Madame de Staël
- 1985-1986 Christopher Columbus
- 1986-1987 William Penn
- 1987-1988 Altiero Spinelli
- 1988-1989 Christopher Dawson
- 1989-1990 Denis de Rougemont
- 1990-1991 Hans & Sophie Scholl
- 1991-1992 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1992-1993 Charles IV
- 1993-1994 Stefan Zweig
- 1994-1995 Ramon Llull
- 1995-1996 Walter Hallstein
- 1996-1997 Alexis de Tocqueville
- 1997-1998 Hendrik Brugmans
- 1998-1999 Leonardo da Vinci
- 1999-2000 Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt
- 2000-2001 Aristotle
- 2001-2002 Simon Stevin
- 2002-2003 Bertha von Suttner
- 2003-2004 John Locke
- 2004-2005 Montesquieu
- 2005-2006 Ludwig van Beethoven
- 2006-2007 Nicolaus Copernicus.
- 2007-2008 Anna Politkovskaja and Hrant Dink
- 2008-2009 Marcus Aurelius
- 2009-2010 Charles Darwin
- 2010-2011 Albert Einstein
- 2011-2012 Marie Curie
- 2012-2013 Václav Havel
- 2013-2014 Voltaire
- 2014-2015 Falcone & Borsellino
- 2015-2016 Frédéric Chopin
- 2016-2017 John Maynard Keynes
- 2017-2018 Simone Veil
- 2018-2019 Manuel Marín
- 2019-2020 Hannah Arendt
- 2020-2021 Mário Soares
- 2021-2022 Éliane Vogel-Polsky
- 2022-2023 David Sassoli
- 2023-2024 Madeleine Albright
- 2024-2025 Jacques Delors
Sources
- Book: The College of Europe. Fifty years of service to Europe, College of Europe publications. 2001.
- For recent years, available at the College of Europe website