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I have met people in their sixties who still love to talk about their year at the College of Europe. From now on you will never think in a purely national framework. As problems arise you will say to yourself ‘but what would my old French or German or Polish friend from the College of Europe think about this’?
Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy
Promotions and Patrons
Academic years at the College are known as promotions. Each promotion is named after outstanding Europeans.
The 2009-2010 promotion is named after Charles Darwin.
| Year | Patron | students |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-2011 | Albert Einstein | --- |
| 2009-2010 | Charles Darwin | 402 |
| 2008-2009 | Marcus Aurelius | 376 |
| 2007-2008 | Anna Politkovskaya & Hrant Dink | 415 |
| 2006-2007 | Nicolaus Copernicus | 418 |
| 2005-2006 | Ludwig van Beethoven | 385 |
| 2004-2005 | Montesquieu | 404 |
| 2003-2004 | John Locke | 391 |
| 2002-2003 | Bertha von Suttner | 370 |
| 2001-2002 | Simon Stevin | 365 |
| 2000-2001 | Aristote | 375 |
| 1999-2000 | Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt | 374 |
| 1998-1999 | Leonardo da Vinci | 337 |
| 1997-1998 | Hendrik Brugmans | 326 |
| 1996-1997 | Alexis de Tocqueville | 319 |
| 1995-1996 | Walter Hallstein | 306 |
| 1994-1995 | Ramon Llull | 296 |
| 1993-1994 | Stefan Zweig | 263 |
| 1992-1993 | Charles IV | 264 |
| 1991-1992 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 212 |
| 1990-1991 | Hans & Sophie Scholl | 145 |
| 1989-1990 | Denis de Rougemont | 200 |
| 1988-1989 | Christopher Dawson | 204 |
| 1987-1988 | Altiero Spinelli | 178 |
| 1986-1987 | William Penn | 177 |
| 1985-1986 | Christophe Colomb | 158 |
| 1984-1985 | Madame de Staël | 123 |
| 1983-1984 | Jean Rey | 133 |
| 1982-1983 | Joseph Bech | 122 |
| 1981-1982 | Johan Willem Beyen | 123 |
| 1980-1981 | Jean Monnet | 131 |
| 1979-1980 | Salvador de Madariaga | 140 |
| 1978-1979 | Paul-Henri Spaak | 130 |
| 1977-1978 | Karl Renner | 128 |
| 1976-1977 | Peter Paul Rubens | 120 |
| 1975-1976 | Adam Jerzy Czartoryski | 101 |
| 1974-1975 | Aristide Briand | 111 |
| 1973-1974 | Giuseppe Mazzini | 92 |
| 1972-1973 | Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi | 59 |
| 1971-1972 | Dante Alighieri | 58 |
| 1970-1971 | Winston Churchill | 57 |
| 1969-1970 | William II of Orange | 49 |
| 1968-1969 | Konrad Adenauer | 47 |
| 1967-1968 | Comenius | 54 |
| 1966-1967 | George C. Marshall | 56 |
| 1965-1966 | Thomas More | 52 |
| 1964-1965 | Robert Schuman | 45 |
| 1963-1964 | Thomas Paine | 48 |
| 1962-1963 | August Vermeylen | 46 |
| 1961-1962 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 37 |
| 1960-1961 | Saint-Simon | 38 |
| 1959-1960 | Sully | 43 |
| 1958-1959 | Fridtjof Nansen | 40 |
| 1957-1958 | Henri le Navigateur | 40 |
| 1956-1957 | Raoul Dautry | 36 |
| 1955-1956 | Virgile | 33 |
| 1954-1955 | Alcide de Gasperi | 36 |
| 1953-1954 | Erasme | 39 |
| 1952-1953 | Tomas Garrigue Masaryk | 40 |
| 1951-1952 | Juan Vives | 30 |
| 1950-1951 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 35 |
| 1949 | Preparatory | 22 |