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-Exupéry1951-1952 Juan Vives1952-1953 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk1953-1954 Erasmus1954-1955 Alcide De Gasperi1955-1956 Virgil1956-1957 Raoul Dautry1957-1958 Henry the Navigator1958-1959 Fridtjof Nansen1959-1960 Sully1960-1961 Saint-Simon1961-1962 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1962-1963 August Vermeylen1963-1964 Thomas Paine1964-1965 Robert Schuman1965-1966 Thomas More1966-1967 George C. Marshall1967-1968 Comenius1968-1969 Konrad Adenauer1969-1970 William the Silent1970-1971 Winston Churchill1971-1972 Dante Alighieri1972-1973 Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi1973-1974 Giuseppe Mazzini1974-1975 Aristide Briand1975-1976 Adam Jerzy Czartoryski1976-1977 Peter Paul Rubens1977-1978 Karl Renner1978-1979 Paul-Henri Spaak1979-1980 Salvador de Madariaga1980-1981 Jean Monnet1981-1982 Jan Willem Beyen1982-1983 Joseph Bech1983-1984 Jean Rey1984-1985 Madame de Staël1985-1986 Christopher Columbus1986-1987 William Penn1987-1988 Altiero Spinelli1988-1989 Christopher Dawson1989-1990 Denis de Rougemont1990-1991 Hans & Sophie Scholl1991-1992 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1992-1993 Charles IV1993-1994 Stefan Zweig1994-1995 Ramon Llull1995-1996 Walter Hallstein1996-1997 Alexis de Tocqueville1997-1998 Hendrik Brugmans1998-1999 Leonardo da Vinci1999-2000 Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt2000-2001 Aristotle2001-2002 Simon Stevin2002-2003 Bertha von Suttner2003-2004 John Locke2004-2005 Montesquieu2005-2006 Ludwig van Beethoven2006-2007 Nicolaus Copernicus.2007-2008 Anna Politkovskaja and Hrant Dink2008-2009 Marcus Aurelius2009-2010 Charles Darwin2010-2011 Albert Einstein2011-2012 Marie Curie2012-2013 Václav Havel2013-2014 Voltaire2014-2015 Falcone & Borsellino2015-2016 Frédéric Chopin