The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 88 THE I’MPOSSIBLE PROGRAMME FOR OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC VALUES-BASED EDUCATION Paris 2024 supports the use of the Olympic is a particularly useful tool for primary school Values Education Programme (OVEP), teachers that can be used to raise awareness developed by the International Olympic and achieve a more accurate image Committee (IOC), and I’mPOSSIBLE, developed of disability. Paris 2024 will help familiarise by the International Paralympic Committee teachers with these educational programmes (IPC). The I’mPOSSIBLE programme to ensure they get the most out of them. • USING SPORT TO DRIVE ENGAGEMENT AND CITIZENSHIP 23 France already boasts a strong volunteering on a day-to-day basis in clubs and at major culture, with over 16 million volunteers – around international sporting events, where volunteers a third of whom are involved in the sports sector. play an important role. Sport also drives engagement outside France. Each year, the French National Olympic The Generation 2024 programme therefore and Sports Committee sends volunteers from aims to: France on assignment to Olympic committees • encourage young people’s civic engagement in the French-speaking world. These young in the sporting movement; people commit to becoming ambassadors for the Olympic values abroad and lead various • place greater emphasis, within existing civic awareness-raising initiatives (education through engagement programmes, on sport in sport, the promotion of sports participation, assignments of general interest entrusted sport and health, etc.). to young people in local authorities, schools Paris 2024 seeks to promote civic engagement, and associations; which contributes to social cohesion and plays • nurture a new generation of young people a crucial role in the sporting movement – both to lead the sporting movement. 23. www.jeunes.gouv.fr (available in French only)