Generation 2024

The Paris 2024 Games are for every generation. But the people in one generation will enjoy them to the fullest, at the peak of their youth and height of their enthusiasm. Paris 2024 is reaching out to them specifically through Generation 2024, its education programme. Starting now, our programme is rallying the education community and students around the momentum that the Games are building to encourage young people to participate in sport more often. But there’s more to it than practicing sports: the program also covers sport and culture in order to explore sport’s rich and universal history, and the values that sport conveys, such as respect and inclusion. Generation 2024 also has its own label to promote this pledge.

The Generation 2024 programme is the result of a joint endeavour with the French Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sport, the sports movement, the school and university sport federations, and the educational community.

A programme to promote sport in the lives of Generation 2024

Taking part in Generation 2024 equates to:

• Promoting sports, physical activities, and physical education from preschool to university, with a special focus on the youngest learners.
• Using sports for educational purposes, in a variety of disciplines, to make learning more enjoyable.
• Presenting Olympic and Paralympic sports, and promoting the values that sport and the Olympic and Paralympic movements stand for.
• Leveraging sport to foster civic engagement.

A platform for the education community

The Generation 2024 website provides a choice of educational resources revolving around the Games, insights about education through sport, tools to encourage daily physical activity, and a forum to connect the education community and share information with it.

On that website, teachers, instructors, pupils and students will find tools to explore sports and receive news about Olympic and Paralympic Week, which takes place every year in all educational establishments from preschool to university.

The Generation 2024 platform is always evolving and shares and highlights the most meaningful initiatives to encourage a generation to get more involved in sports as the Paris 2024 Games draw closer.

The Generation 2024 label

This label, which is awarded by the French Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, is designed to build bridges between the academic world and the sports movement to encourage young people to increase their physical activity and provide more opportunities for everyone to enjoy the Olympic and Paralympic adventure. All primary and secondary schools and universities can apply for the Generation 2024 label, as can organisations in the AEFE (Agency for French Education Abroad) network and the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and some nursing homes overseen by the Ministry for Solidarity and Health.

To be awarded the label, schools and universities need to:

• Build formative projects with sports club in their area
• Take part in Olympic and Paralympic events
• Work with or take in high-level athletes
• Open their sports facilities to local sports organisations to provide more opportunities to practise sports

The first organisation was certified in 2018, and over 6,000 have earned the label in 2023.