Paris 2024 lifts the veil on Tuesday on the device that will allow 45,000 volunteers to accompany the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games.
« The face, the soul, the heart and the smile of our Games are them, they are them “Summarizes Tony Estanguet, President of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, referring to the 45,000 volunteers expected to serve the Games. A stage race.
The conditions to be met: Speak at least French or English. Be mobilized for the duration of the Games (10 days minimum). Be 18 on the 1stis January 2024, with two exceptions: minors presented by federations for specific missions in the service of sports performance (ball boys, etc.) and students who are part of a program run by National Education for four years in the Pierre de Coubertin-Alice Millat classes.
Missions : « They will be varied, there will be something for everyone sums up Alexandre Morenon-Condé, Paris 2024 Volunteers delegate. airports… The goal: “ Welcoming the whole world, embodying the sense of hospitality and the values of France “Summarize the organizers.
The device : 45,000 volunteers, around 30,000 for the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) and 15,000 for the Paralympic Games (August 28-September 8) will be recruited (equally) by the organizers of Paris 2024. Paris 2024 fully shares the ambition of the State, which launched an initiative in December 2019 to train 3,000 volunteers with disabilities for international sporting events and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. », Details the organizing committee. 5,000 volunteers will also be recruited by the town hall of Paris to strengthen the system, participate in the reception of the 12 to 15 million visitors expected. Julien Combret, volunteer project manager at the City of Paris underlines: “ The big red thread is reception, information, orientation, animation to hang on to party places and logistical missions. »
The calendar : The appointment to apply is set for March 2023. The portal will remain open for six weeks. “ We expect a lot of enthusiasm around the volunteer program. During previous Olympics, between 120,000 and 160,000 people applied. The idea being that at the end of 2023 those who have been selected will know for which mission and that those who have not been selected will be notified. “, assures Alexandre Morenon-Condé who was a volunteer at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and remembers: “ It cost me some money but I had an unforgettable experience. And there was a sequel in my career. »
Food, accommodation, transportation: Fed and laundered (1 million outfits provided by Decathlon, partner of the Olympics), the volunteers will have one meal a day and local transport. Accommodation remaining at their expense.
The registration platform: It will be open in March 2023. Before that, information on the volunteer program is available on the dedicated page https://www.paris2024.org/fr/volontaires/