The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 89 THE GENERATION 2024 CIVIC SERVICE PROGRAMME TO MOBILISE 10,000 YOUNG PEOPLE Paris 2024 is going to offer young people new forms of civic engagement, including through the civic service programme. Civic service involves making a voluntary commitment to carry out an assignment of general interest in one of France’s nine priority areas, such as sport, for six to 12 months. Volunteers commit to at least 24 hours per week, receiving an allowance from the French State and additional support – either in kind or monetary – from the host structure. The goal of civic service is to give young people aged between 16 and 25 a framework for engagement that enables them to become more self-confident, develop their skill sets and take the time to think about their future personal and professional lives. From 2019 to 2020, Paris 2024, the French Civic Service Agency and the French National Olympic and Sports Committee conducted a conclusive experiment in six Regional Olympic and Sports Committees and Departmental Olympic and Sports Committees in order to trial a project to improve access to sport. Paris 2024 also called upon UFOLEP (the French Union of Secular Physical Education) – supported by USEP (the Sports Education Union for Primary Education) and the Ligue de l’enseignement (a French federation for secular education) – to deploy 100 young civic service volunteers in urban and rural priority neighbourhoods to improve access to sport, introduce people to the new sports on the Paris 2024 Games programme and organise a sports event in their region on Olympic Day. Following these trials, Paris 2024, the French National Civic Service Agency and the French National Olympic and Sports Committee plan to offer 10,000 young people Generation 2024 civic service assignments as part of the French State’s legacy plan, giving priority to: • Generation 2024 schools to activate their label, organise projects over the Olympic and Paralympic Week, take part in Olympic Day, etc.; • Terre de Jeux 2024 cities to activate their label and organise projects to promote physical activity and sport in their region; • Terre de Jeux 2024 departments to activate their label and organise projects to promote physical activity and sport in their region, particularly for people living with disabilities; • sports clubs and associations to support innovative projects, apply for Impact 2024, reach out to schools, etc. These assignments will help build a Generation 2024 community of young people that want to get involved and potentially become voluntary managers in sports clubs. AN INITIATIVE LAUNCHED AS A RESULT OF THE GAMES © – svetikd/Getty Images