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Economic and employment opportunities open and accessible to everyone
With more than five years to go before the big event, Paris 2024 and the Games’ stakeholders have today launched a plan that is totally innovative in both its approach and scope and which seeks, through the Olympic Games, to create new tender and job opportunities.
Paris 2024 : A revolutionary experience
Paris 2024 is revolutionising the Olympic experience by offering everyone the opportunity, for the first time ever, to be more than just a spectator or a viewer and play an actual part. Paris 2024 is also submitting a proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the inclusion of four new sports that all embody youth, elite performance, spectacular experiences and inclusiveness.
Olympic and Paralympic Week is here!
This week, sport, its values and its benefits will take centre stage in schools, educational establishments and universities across France, as part of Olympic and Paralympic We
Paris 2024’s first Executive Board meeting of 2019
Paris 2024 is the first Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to set up an endowment fund that will help consolidate the impact of the Paris 2024 legacy projects.
COP24: Paris 2024 joins the UNFCCC Sports for Climate Action initiative
At the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), currently being held in Katowice (Poland), Paris 2024 yesterday announced its intention to join Sports for Climate Action, a UNFCCC initiative that is designed to encourage the sporting world to cut greenhouse gas emissions generated by the events it organises.
Paris 2024 is set to introduce the “Land of the 2024 Games” certification
Six years before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tony Estanguet, chairman of Paris 2024, presented the local mobilisation and engagement strategy to the Association of French Mayors (AMF), and set out Paris 2024’s ambition to make the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games the “Games of France”.
The Paris 2024 Bid Committee closes its books with a €6.7m surplus
The Paris 2024 Public Interest Group (Bid Committee) was officially dissolved at its final General Assembly today, which was attended by representatives of the City of Paris, the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF), the French National Paralympic Committee (CPSF), the State and the Île-de-France Region, The gathering provided an opportunity to highlight the sound financial management of the Paris 2024 Public Interest Group, which closed its books with a surplus of €6.7m, more than 10% of its total budget.
Paris 2024 presents an optimised Olympic Games venue concept
Paris 2024 reached a new milestone in its Games preparations yesterday when it presented an optimised sport and venue concept to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board, designed to enhance the Games experience for all participants, while strengthening the Games legacy for people and communities and securing the budget for the Games.
Paris 2024 links up with “For a fit France” collective
“For a fit France”, a group of experts from the world of sport and health, is joining up with Paris 2024 to make the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games a catalyst for progress in the field.
French regions commit support to Paris 2024
The regions of France and Paris 2024 come together behind a shared ambition to activate the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games throughout France over the six years of preparations.
Groupe BPCE becomes the first premium partner of Paris 2024
One year to the day that saw the Olympic and Paralympic Games return to France, Paris 2024 and Groupe BPCE officially announced the signature of their partnership.
Tony Estanguet signs LGBT+ charter with “Autre Cercle”
Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, has signed the LGBT+ Engagement Charter established in 2012 by “Autre Cercle”, in the company of the organisation’s president Christophe Berthier, and spokesperson Catherine Tripon.