Collège de France: the prestige of French research is online

Students, Researcher

Thanks to its digital campus, the Collège de France offers free and open access to more than 10,000 online contents in most scientific disciplines. This is a unique opportunity to benefit from the teaching excellence of this prestigious institution without having to travel.

As a unique institution within the French research community, the Collège de France offers the general public, in this period of confinement, free access to the teaching provided by its internationally renowned professors, scientists and researchers.

A digital campus on the excellence of French research

The Collège de France, whose missions are "the teaching of research in progress and the widest possible dissemination of knowledge", offers the general public free access to more than 10,000 items of online content on its website, YouTube channel and iTunes portal.

These digital resources, which bring together thousands of hours of lectures and conferences in all scientific disciplines, “reflect the diversity of teaching provided by its full professors as well as its visiting professors on annual or international chairs”.

A diversity of audiovisual resources available

On the Collège de France website, a wide variety of video and audio content is available, including:

Inaugural lessons: of a high scientific level, they describe the state of a discipline and present a research programme
The annual courses for teachers: these courses on an original theme reflect the evolution of research in most disciplines
Seminars, colloquia, conferences of great personalities etc.

A few examples:

The inaugural lesson of Alain Mabanckou, famous writer and professor of literature at UCLA: Black letters, from darkness to light
Lectures by astrophysicist Françoise Combes, professor at the Collège de France since 2014 and CNRS Gold Medal 2020
The closing lesson by Professor Carlo Ossola, holder of the Chair of Modern Literatures of Neolithic Europe, entitled "Knots”.

Original publications in free access

During the entire period of confinement, the Collège de France offers some 200 open-access publications on OpenEdition Books, including many inaugural lessons. They can be downloaded free of charge.