Génération 2024: a quality seal to maintain the Olympic Games torch

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Hosting and organising the Olympic Games, as Paris will do in 2024, implies a deep commitment of all stakeholders: from sports, of course, but also from social, economic and education fields. This is why the French ministry of higher education created the Génération 2024 quality seal and seal granting process for institutions in the prospect of the Olympic Games. Over 100 already engaged in this adventure!

A new programme was created to engage education, sport and student communities to “Keep alive the flame of Olympic values in higher education” to “build on the momentum of the Olympic Games in order to inject more sports in the daily lives of the young”.

More solidarity among a generation

As the ministry of higher education explains, “all generations are invited to participate in the Paris Olympic Games 2024”. But for the generation who will “fully live the event with all its youth and enthusiasm”, the organisers of Paris 2024 wanted to create a tailor-made support with an education programme obviously called Génération 2024 (Generation 2024).

The idea is to improve “the well-being of young people and support their construction as citizens”, by seizing the opportunity to organise the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024 “to be in better health, with greater sociability, and more commitment”. For the initiators of the project, “Génération 2024, the generation that will live the Games, has the power to boost the transformation of society through the education through sport!”.

The commitment of institutions

In practical terms, this seal allows institutions that wish so to support the development of sport practice in higher education and improve its objectives of inclusion, health, respect and citizen commitment. For institutions that commit in this process and want to get the seal, four major commitments are conditional to obtaining the seal. Institutions must have an intention to:

Develop projects with sporting club on their territory;
participate in Olympic and Paralympic promotional events;
accompany or host high-level athletes;
Be ready to open up sports facilities in institutions.

Actions at the benefit of students

When a school is awarded the Génération 2024 seal, it must “make sport a more integral part of young people’s and students’ everyday lives” and immediately enable “as many people as possible to experience the Olympic and Paralympic adventure”. Institution with the seal will have to take specific steps to benefit students:

encouraging volunteers to promote sports;
encouraging initiatives that are adapted to specific local conditions;
developing the inclusion of physical activity and sport in student training and building “cross-disciplinary skills included in the skills reference frameworks for higher education qualifications”.

Pragmatically, for all students and, in particular, scholarship holders and students with disabilities, the development of regular sporting activities will be encouraged “as part of the movement initiated and maintained by Paris 2024”.

More than 100 institutions determined to change lives

To assess the forces at work, the Ministry of Higher Education has published an “interactive map” of all the institutions that have already been awarded the seal. There are 102 higher education establishments (universities, grandes écoles and university sports centres) throughout France that have already signed up to this movement to support the Olympic Games.

A platform and newsletter dedicated to the initiative will also enable you to follow the day-to-day initiatives of “those who are bringing more sport into the daily lives of Génération 2024”, those who “share the conviction that sport changes lives”!