The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 49 RESPONSIBLE GAMES THAT OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE ENABLING SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES AND LOCAL RESIDENTS TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES CREATED BY MAJOR SPORTING EVENTS, PARTICULARLY THE GAMES The Paris 2024 Games are a large-scale event, but not one that is reserved for large companies and people in work. We are looking to draw on the diversity of talent available in small and medium-sized organisations to enrich our project. Paris 2024 (the organising committee), Solideo (the company tasked with delivering the Olympic facilities) and other contracting parties (charged with building and delivering facilities, including development and redevelopment work carried out for the Games) will be organising hundreds of public tenders and thousands of employment opportunities in the coming years. We are developing bespoke tools to ensure all these companies – including very small, small and medium-sized businesses and those within the SSE – and everybody – including the long- term unemployed – are in a position to tap into these opportunities. HELPING BUSINESSES AND PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY With this in mind, Paris 2024 developed bespoke tools to help all businesses and anybody looking for a professional opportunity. Rolling out these tools takes the form of numerous meetings out on the ground with all the driving forces of regional economies – local authorities, associations, businesses, etc. – as well as economic development stakeholders, public employment agencies and professional integration bodies. In terms of employment and skills development, the Legacy and Sustainability strategy aims to: • support and boost very small, small and medium-sized businesses and companies from the SSE in France; • facilitate dialogue between these businesses and major groups by organising procurement consortia; • develop people’s employability by helping them to acquire skills they can use after the Games; • build and share tools and methods that will remain in place long after the Games; for instance, the Paris 2024 Social Charter – through which Paris 2024 has pledged to protect employee health and safety and prevent and combat all forms of discrimination – is now being replicated across Europe; • inspire organisers of future major international sporting events after the Games.