How Paris is prepping its volunteers ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

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Updated on 14/06/2024

Apprenticeship from volunteers to 2016 — Crédit photo : Gérard Sanz/Ville de Paris

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5,300 volunteers will help out in the City of Paris during the Games. Find out more about Team Paris in this article.

Volunteers will be an essential cog in the success of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They will welcome, guide and advise the capital's visitors and ensure they have the best experience. The City of Paris will mobilize the 5,300 volunteers who make up the "Paris Team" volunteers group that will be deployed in the public space, in addition to the 45,000 Paris 2024 volunteers. The application phase closed on May 3rd, and applicants will be notified in autumn 2023.

Who are Team Paris?

The "Team Paris des Jeux" volunteers will embody the face of the capital, with three objectives:

commitment from Paris' residents;
an exemplary reception for visitors, positively contributing to Paris' reputation;
a legacy of solidarity and a positive impact for the city and its residents. This global event will be made richer by the encounters it will create.

What are Team Paris' missions?

Volunteers from the City of Paris will mainly be mobilized in the city and will be responsible for welcoming, guiding and informing visitors. They will not be mobilized directly on the official competition sites. They will play a supporting role in bringing Paris to life, so that the Paris 2024 Games are a celebration for everyone, everywhere in the city.

Their missions are grouped into six categories:

Reception, guidance and assistance for spectators, participants and stakeholders
Assisting sporting operations
Operational assistance for the organization
Spectator assistance
Assisting medical services
Ceremony assistance

Where will Team Paris des Volontaires des Jeux be deployed?

The 5,300 City of Paris volunteers will be positioned in public spaces: in the vicinity of train stations, metro stations and festivity sites, at tourist sites and near Parisian Olympic and Paralympic venues.

Volunteering schedule

The application period to become a volunteer ended on May 3rd, 2023. Here are the next steps :

May to September 2023: Paris 2024 and the City of Paris will review bids
January 2024 to February 2024: Responding to candidates
Spring 2024: training
From July 26th to August 11th, 2024: Olympic Games
August 28th to September 8th, 2024: Paralympic Games

Easy to Read and Understand Volunteer Guide
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General questions

For several years, the City of Paris has chaperoned a community, "Les Volontaires de Paris", which is made up of citizens committed to volunteering with the aim of making Paris more inclusive, more supportive and more pleasant to live in for everyone.

Paris wants the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to be a trigger and an accelerator for civic engagement. Like many host cities before it, it is therefore committed to developing its own volunteering program: the Paris Team of Games Volunteers. The city had already taken a similar approach when hosting Euro 2016 and other major international sporting events.

Application

The City of Paris has defined expectations according to the demands of each assignment. In addition to motivation and commitment, these expectations require interpersonal skills, specific periods of availability and, in some cases, specific skills. Applications will be considered on the basis of the information provided by the applicant on the registration form.

Where specific skills are required, candidates may be invited to take part in an interview or additional assessment (a language test, for example).

On the dedicated portal, applicants will be invited to answer questions that will help guide them towards their future assignments. A volunteer relations center will be set up to assist volunteers throughout the process. No specific skills are required, but when certain missions call for specific skills, some candidates may be invited to a second remote interview, or to take a language test, for example.

For organizational reasons, Paris 2024 will give preference to applicants who are available for at least 10 days during the Games period. All applicants will receive a reply from September 2023.

Missions

From spring 2024 onward, selected Volunteers will benefit from training to ensure they are fully prepared to carry out their mission. The first training courses will be available online (on mobile or computer). As the Games draw closer, volunteers will continue their training at sites where they will be carrying out their missions. Concrete details of this training phase will be issued to volunteers at the end of 2023.

Formations

We are committed to making our training courses accessible to people with disabilities. This is why we will ask if any specific needs need to be taken into account during the application phase.

- All our digital content will be produced in accordance with the general guidelines for improving accessibility.

- On-site or remote appointments will enable all Volunteers, whatever their particular needs, to have convenient access to these events.

Practical information

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How Paris is prepping its volunteers ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Content

Who are Team Paris?

What are Team Paris' missions?

Where will Team Paris des Volontaires des Jeux be deployed?

Volunteering schedule

General questions

Why is the City of Paris setting up a Volunteers program?

Will volunteers be paid?

Will volunteers be able to watch the Games?

Application

How do I apply to become a Games Volunteer in Paris?

How are applications reviewed?

Missions

How is a volunteer selected?

How will volunteers be prepared for their mission?

Can assignments be adapted to meet the specific needs of volunteers, especially those with disabilities?

Formations

What will volunteers be trained to do?

Will training courses be accessible to all?

Practical information

When will the Paris City Volunteers be deployed?

When will the schedules be published?

Is accommodation provided as part of a Voluntary mission?

Will the City of Paris pay for volunteers' meals?