The Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games (OCOG) has signed SCC France – a subsidiary of the first independent IT group from Europe – as an Official Supporter.
Tony Estanguet, President of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Didier Lejeune, Executive Director of SCC France, during the formalization of the partnership between the two structures, Tuesday January 10, 2022 (Credits – Paris 2024)
Se defining itself as a trusted IT partner of the largest French organizations and companies, SCC France is now entering a new dimension, with the support of the organizers of the Paris 2024 Games, the largest event ever organized in the Hexagon.
Also, the computer company will ensure as Official Supporter, the management of the supply and the supply of computer equipment, but also audiovisual, reprographic or mobile, including in this certain products of the World Partners (TOP) of the International Committee Olympic (IOC).
In a desire – associated with that of Paris 2024 – to promote the values of sustainability and integration, SCC France will also propose the recovery of all equipment at the end of the Games, in order to treat and recondition said equipment. via a subsidiary employing more than 65% of people with disabilities.
As Didier Lejeune, Executive Director of SCC France said : “Positioning ourselves among the Partners of the Organizing Committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a source of pride for all of our teams. We are going to set up an industrial system to allow organizers to create a unique experience.”
It is also a great opportunity for our group to display its values, to federate its teams and its ecosystem, and to highlight its know-how. SCC France thus pragmatically demonstrates its desire to participate in universal projects driven by human, sporting and commitment values . For his part, the President of the OCOG was particularly keen to emphasize the promise of reusing the equipment after the Games.
As Tony Estanguet explained in this sense: “The complete management of the life cycle of SCC France’s IT equipment and its reuse to limit digital waste are concrete examples and in perfect harmony with our ambition to organize Games with a reduced impact on the environment and to contribute to a new, more responsible event model .
With the arrival of SCC France , the Paris 2024 Partners Program now includes – and in order of strategic importance – 5 Premium Partners, 7 Official Partners, and finally 11 Official Supporters.
At the end of 2022, during its budget review, Paris 2024 specified that it had raised its ambitions in terms of income from sponsorship .
Also, instead of the initial objective of nearly 1.1 billion euros , the OCOG is now counting on a forecast windfall of around 1.226 billion euros, knowing that the level of signatures at the end of the past year suggested an acquired sum of 1.022 billion euros.
