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 Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (, , ; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of s ...

* 1951-1952

Juan Vives Juan Luis Vives March ( la, Joannes Lodovicus Vives, lit=Juan Luis Vives; ca, Joan Lluís Vives i March; nl, Jan Ludovicus Vives; 6 March 6 May 1540) was a Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who ...

* 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 ''Dom'' Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator ( pt, Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15t ...

* 1958-1959

Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (; 10 October 186113 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. He led the team t ...

* 1959-1960 Sully * 1960-1961 Saint-Simon * 1961-1962 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz * 1962-1963

August Vermeylen August Vermeylen (12 May 1872, in Brussels – 10 January 1945, in Uccle) was a Belgian writer and literature critic. In 1893 he founded the literary journal ''Van Nu en Straks'' (''Of Today and Tomorrow''). He studied history at the Free Univers ...

* 1963-1964 Thomas Paine * 1964-1965

Robert Schuman Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (; 29 June 18864 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a ref ...

* 1965-1966 Thomas More * 1966-1967

George C. Marshall George Catlett Marshall Jr. (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American army officer and statesman. He rose through the United States Army to become Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Chief of Staff of the US Army under Pre ...

* 1967-1968 Comenius * 1968-1969 Konrad Adenauer * 1969-1970 William the Silent * 1970-1971

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

* 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 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo (23 July 1886 – 14 December 1978) was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 197 ...

* 1980-1981

Jean Monnet Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (; 9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, administrator, and political visionary. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered one of the ...

* 1981-1982

Jan Willem Beyen Johan Willem "Wim" Beyen (2 May 1897 – 29 April 1976) was a Dutch politician and diplomat of Liberal signature and businessman. Beyen played an important role in the creation of the European Economic Community and is regarded as one of the Fou ...

* 1982-1983 Joseph Bech * 1983-1984 Jean Rey * 1984-1985

Madame de Staël Madame may refer to: * Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French * Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel * ''Madame'' ...

* 1985-1986 Christopher Columbus * 1986-1987 William Penn * 1987-1988

Altiero Spinelli Altiero Spinelli (31 August 1907 – 23 May 1986) was an Italian politician, political theorist and European federalist, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. A communist and militant anti-fascist in his youth, he spe ...

* 1988-1989

Christopher Dawson Christopher Henry Dawson (12 October 188925 May 1970) was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century ...

* 1989-1990 Denis de Rougemont * 1990-1991

Hans Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...

& Sophie Scholl * 1991-1992 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * 1992-1993 Charles IV * 1993-1994

Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig (; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist, and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular write ...

* 1994-1995

Ramon Llull Ramon Llull (; c. 1232 – c. 1315/16) was a philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, and Christian apologist from the Kingdom of Majorca. He invented a philosophical system known as the ''Art'', conceived as a type of universal logic to pro ...

* 1995-1996

Walter Hallstein Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 – 29 March 1982) was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first President of the European Commission, President of the European Commission, Commission of the European Economic Community ...

* 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 Simon Stevin (; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. He made various contributions in many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated vario ...

* 2002-2003

Bertha von Suttner Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel ...

* 2003-2004

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

* 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 Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

* 2016-2017 John Maynard Keynes * 2017-2018 Simone Veil * 2018-2019 Manuel Marín * 2019-2020

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was born ...

* 2020-2021 Mário Soares * 2021-2022

Éliane Vogel-Polsky Éliane Vogel-Polsky (5 July 1926 – 13 November 2015) was a Belgian lawyer and feminist. Biography Éliane Vogel-Polsky was born in Ghent on 5 July 1926, one of two daughters. Her parents were Russian Jews who had immigrated to Belgium after th ...

* 2022-2023 David Sassoli

Sources

* Book: ''The College of Europe. Fifty years of service to Europe'', College of Europe publications. 2001. * For recent years, available at th
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