6The Letter of the Collège De France
The Letter 6 of the Collège de France ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011 N° 6 Teaching research in the making The Collège de France was created in 1530 by King Francis I The Collège’s motto is Docet omnia: the vocation to teach everything The lectures are open to anyone, there are no registration fees and no degrees are awarded The programme is changed each year Diffusion of knowledge • Lectures, seminars, guest lecturers from abroad, international and multidisciplinary conferences: attended by 140,000 people annually • Publications and institutional review (printing and electronic publications): abstracts of work under way (Yearbook), Inaugural lectures, reopening symposiums and guest professors’ lectures, The Letter of the Collège de France • Website in French and English (www.college-de-france.fr): 2,100,000 visits (5,750 visits/day), 17,900,000 hours of lessons download in 2011, audio and video retransmissions • Lectures broadcast by France-Culture (1,000,000 listeners/month) 57 Chairs • 52 Chairs + 5 Chairs renewed annually (Artistic Creation, Information Technology and Digital Sciences, Knowledge against Poverty, Sustainable Development–Environment, Energy and Society, Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt) • Promoting the emergence of new disciplines • Multidisciplinary approach to cutting-edge research • Creation of a new Chair in the scientifi c domain of every nominated professor (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, Archaeology, History, Study of the great civilizations, Linguistics
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