The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 92 As an outlet for engagement, social interaction and personal fulfilment, sport is widely recognised as an effective tool for social integration. Sports can therefore be educational resources in their own right. The ‘Sports-Towns-Inclusion’ interministerial circular, signed on 19 April 2019, marked a new milestone in recognising sport as a tool for social inclusion, as it mentioned that city contracts must now include a section on sports action for social and territorial inclusion 24 . This circular clarifies the role of stakeholders that harness sport for social inclusion in order to go beyond ‘common law’ sport and serve other issues related to city policy. Three main types of community sports activities, as defined in the circular, will be highlighted in the Legacy and Sustainability strategy: 1. sports activities that make people’s talents shine through: leveraging sport to identify and celebrate interpersonal skills and knowledge that can be mobilised for access to training and employment; 2. sports activities that champion values: leveraging sport to share messages promoting civic values such as social cohesion and the prevention and treatment of excesses (including racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia); 3. sports activities that act as regional projects: leveraging sport to mobilise young people through integration and/or citizenship within – and with stakeholders from – different bodies (including schools and companies). Paris 2024’s Legacy and Sustainability strategy seeks to strengthen the role of sport as a tool for: • social inclusion • remobilising people in difficulty, including early school leavers • integrating people experiencing exclusion or a lack of security, including refugees • empowering girls • the professional integration of unemployed people SPORT TO IMPROVE INCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY SPORT – A FANTASTIC VECTOR FOR INCLUSION STRENGTHENING, HIGHLIGHTING AND PROMOTING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF SPORT 24. CIRCULAR No. DS/DIR/2019/108 of 19 April 2019 on the integration of sport into city contracts