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Civic service engagement
Verified 01 January 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Solidarity, culture, environment..., civic service allows you to perform a mission of general interest from 6 months to 1 year in a public or private organization. You must be between the ages of 16 and 30. You're getting an allowance.
What applies to you ?
Major
What are the missions involved?
These are general interest missions carried out in one of the 10 areas identified as priorities for the Nation:
- Solidarity (elderly, disabled...)
- Health
- Education for all
- Culture and recreation
- Sports
- Environment
- Memory and citizenship
- International development and humanitarian action
- Emergency Response
- European citizenship
Please note
actions of a religious or political nature are excluded.
How long are the missions?
The civic service engagement takes place over a continuous period of 6 months to 1 year.
Weekly duration should be between 24 hours and 48 hours, spread over a maximum of 6 days.
The weekly duration shall be calculated on average over all the months of the mission carried out. This allows modulation of the number of hours worked per week.
As a volunteer, you can only do one civic service.
What are the host organizations?
Your host organization must be accredited by the Civic Service Agency. These organizations may include:
- French non-profit organization (for example, an association, a foundation)
- Public body (e.g. town hall, school)
- Organization for low-income housing
- International organization headquartered in France
Please note
civic service engagement cannot be performed in a cultural association, political, a congregation or a company foundation.
Age
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General case
You can commit yourself until the eve of your 26the birthday.
Person with a disability
You can commit until the day before your 31ste birthday.
You must have one of the following devices or aids:
- Notification of the Departmental House of Persons with Disabilities (MDPH)
- Recognition of the status of disabled worker (RQTH)
- Education allowance for disabled children
- Disabled adults' allowance
- Customized project of schooling
- Notification of permanent disability rate or disability rate
- Mobility Inclusion Card invalidity
Nationality or residence in France
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French
The civic service is open to you if you are a French national.
European
Civic service is open to you if you are a citizen of a member country of the European Economic Area (EEA), of the European Union and Switzerland.
Other nationality
Condition of residence in France for more than 1 year
You can enroll in civic service if you have resided in France for more than 1 year, provided you have one of the following residence permits:
- Temporary residence card bearing the mention private and family life
- Residence card bearing the mention talent passport
- Residence card bearing the mention talent family passport
- Residence card bearing the mention beneficiary of stateless status or the mention family member of a beneficiary of stateless status
- Resident card bearing the endorsement EU long-term resident
- Resident Card
Signing a civic service contract cannot extend the validity of your residence permit.
FYI
the length of residence requirement does not apply if you come from a country where french volunteers are on assignment under volunteer exchange agreements.
Other situations
You can engage in civic service provided you have one of the following residence permits:
- Temporary residence card bearing the mention student
- General multi-annual residence permit issued after a first residence document
- Multi-annual residence card bearing the mention beneficiary of subsidiary protection or family member of a beneficiary of subsidiary protection
- Full resident card abroad recognized as a refugee
- Receipt of recognition of international protection issued byOfpra: titleContent or by NDA: titleContent
Signing a civic service contract cannot extend the validity of your residence permit.
Diploma
Civic service is open without qualification.
Can we combine civic service with another activity?
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Employee
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being salaried worker.
However, civic service engagement is a sustained engagement that most often takes place full time.
If you keep your civic service commitment, you can do something else, regardless of how long it lasts.
Student
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being a student if you are able to reconcile your different schedules.
You can interrupt your graduate studies to complete your civic service engagement as part of your hyphenation period.
Job-seeker
You can stay registered in Pôle emploi for the duration of your mission. You will be placed in category 4 for people who are unemployed and not immediately available.
Please note
if you sign a CSD: titleContent at least 6 months or one DTA: titleContent, you may terminate your civic service contract without notice. In all other cases, you must respect a one-month notice.
Trainee
You cannot sign an internship agreement with the same organization at the same time as a civic service contract.
You can ask your training organization to validate this commitment period instead of an internship. The activities you carry out as part of your mission must be related to your training curriculum.
A specific agreement (which is not a traineeship agreement) can be signed by the 3 parties:
- You
- Host Organization
- Training organization
To search for a civic service engagement mission or pre-register, you can use the dedicated online service.
You need to set up your account on the online service.
Then you can apply directly to organizations offering missions.
Online Civic Service Engagement Application
You can also contact a local mission or the Youth Information Network.
After your registration, the Civic Service Agency will send you, by mail, your volunteer card.
This card offers the following services:
- Justify your volunteer status with third parties
- Enjoy the same financial benefits as a student (e.g. discounted museum tickets)
This card shall include the following information:
- Period of validity of the card (it corresponds to the duration of your commitment)
- Your first and last names
- Your signature
The menu is strictly personal.
In the event of a breach of your civic service commitment, you must hand the card to the organization in which you perform your mission.
Your mission is the subject of a contract between the organization and you.
Under certain conditions, your approved host organization, private or public, may ask you to work with one or more non-approved organizations. This must be specified in your contract.
You cannot work in private organizations whose activity is cult, political or trade union.
Your general interest tasks are complementary to the activities entrusted to employees or public officials. They cannot replace a job or an internship.
When registering or signing the contract, the host organization must inform you of the possibility of carrying out a free health examination. This test is supported by the CPAM: titleContent.
The mission is carried out in France and/or abroad.
Training
It is mandatory for organizations hosting volunteers in civic service to provide them with civic and civic training.
This training must include training in first aid.
It also includes modules addressing issues related to citizenship, including:
- Combating discrimination
- Gender equality
- Democracy
- Sustainable development
The content and conduct of these modules shall be defined by the host organization, which may organize them internally or call on an external organization.
Please note
other types of non-compulsory training may be offered by the host organizations as a complement to civic and civic training.
Social coverage
During your engagement, you benefit from state-funded social protection covering the following risks:
- Disease
- Maternity
- Disability
- Accident at work
Simply send a copy of the signed civic service contract to the Social Security fund that you depend on.
Students with a civic service contract may benefit from an exemption from membership of the student social security scheme.
The duration of civic service must cover the academic year of 1er October of year N to September 30 of year N+1 (for example, from 1er October 2021 to September 30, 2022).
Civic service does not entitle you to a mutual. But you can benefit from the complementary health solidarity if you meet the conditions.
FYI
civic service allows you to get basic pension rights. It doesn't give you rights to supplementary pension.
Costs of transportation and accommodation abroad
If your mission takes place abroad, additional costs may be added, particularly for transportation and accommodation on site.
Some missions receive support from the State or a local authority, on an exceptional basis.
In most cases, a significant part of the costs may be borne by you, even when the host organization makes its contribution.
Before signing your contract, it is strongly recommended to clarify the sharing of costs between the recognized organization and you, especially for transport and accommodation.
Leave
You are entitled to 2 days of leave per month.
The status of the young volunteer is specific. You're not an employee, a trainee, or a volunteer.
You don't get a salary, you get an allowance.
You get the following benefits:
- Minimum monthly allowance of €541.17 crude (either €489.59 net)
- Provision of a minimum of €111.35 net in kind or in cash corresponding to feed or transport costs
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €123.18 crude (either €111.45 net) can be paid if you meet one of the following conditions:
- Be a student receiving a scholarship on social criteria
- Be entitled to RSA
Accumulation with other allowances
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Return-to-work assistance allowance
For the duration of the mission, payment of your unemployment benefits is suspended, but you remain registered in Pôle emploi.
You are changing the classification of job seekers.
You're in category D.
It refers to people who are unemployed, not immediately available.
Think about update your situation with Pôle emploi before the mission begins. You will avoid having to overpay Pôle emploi.
At the end of the mission, you must update your situation within 5 days.
Payment of your unemployment benefits resumes when your assignment is completed. It has no effect on the amount or duration of the payment.
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance benefits at the end of your employment.
You can contact Pôle emploi by one of the following means:
- Online
- On the spot
- By telephone
In case of a move, you must inform Pôle emploi of your new place of residence. The agency is responsible for transferring the file.
- Pôle emploi for jobseekers - 3949
By telephone
39,49
- To update your situation, report a change of situation, inform you of a payment: automated service 7 days a week, 24 hours a day - Free service + call price
- To be put in contact with an advisor to register, to inform you, to modify an appointment: service accessible at the times set by each Pôle emploi agency - Free service + call price
From the foreigner: + 33 1 77 86 39 49
By E-mail
Access via the contact form
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance rights or your rights to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Income from active solidarity
Payments of the SSA or activity bonus shall be suspended for the duration of the mission and shall resume at the end of the mission. You must report changes in the situation to the Caf: titleContent or the MSA: titleContent.
Family Allowance Fund (Caf) online
If you are at the expense of your parents within the meaning of family benefitsHowever, the voluntary allowance you receive is not taken into account in calculating your parents' social assistance entitlements.
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will find your rights to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance rights or your rights to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Disabled adults' allowance
The allowance and the Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA) are cumulative. The allowance is not taken into account in the calculation of the AAH.
Student Grant
Civic service has no impact on the terms and conditions of a student scholarship or its amount.
The civic service allowance is not included in the calculation of your grant.
You must have an end-of-engagement review, prepared by your host organization.
The assessment shall describe the following:
- Activities carried out
- Acquired skills
You receive a certificate of civic service.
Minor
A young person 16 years of age or older may engage in civic service.
What are the missions involved?
These are general interest missions carried out in one of the 10 areas identified as priorities for the Nation:
- Solidarity (elderly, disabled...)
- Health
- Education for all
- Culture and recreation
- Sports
- Environment
- Memory and citizenship
- International development and humanitarian action
- Emergency Response
- European citizenship
Please note
actions of a religious or political nature are excluded.
The tasks entrusted to you and the conditions of your support must be adapted to your age. The hazardous or arduous work prohibited to young workers you are forbidden.
Parental permission is required.
You need more mentoring.
Civic service is open without qualification.
How long are the missions?
The civic service engagement takes place over a continuous period of 6 months to 1 year. The weekly duration should be between 24 hours and 35 hours, spread over a maximum of 5 days.
The weekly duration shall be calculated on average over all the months of the mission carried out. This allows modulation of the number of hours worked per week.
If you are a minor, you cannot work at night (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.) or on public holidays.
As a volunteer, you can only do one civic service.
What are the host organizations?
Your host organization must be accredited by the Civic Service Agency. These organizations may include:
- French non-profit organization (for example, an association, a foundation)
- Public body (e.g. town hall, school)
- Organization for low-income housing
- International organization headquartered in France
Please note
civic service engagement cannot be performed in a cultural association, political, a congregation or a company foundation.
Age
You can sign a civic service assignment if you are at least 16 years old.
Parental permission is required unless you are a emancipated minor.
Nationality or residence in France
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French
The civic service is open to you if you are a French national.
European
Civic service is open to you if you are a citizen of a member country of the European Economic Area (EEA), of the European Union and Switzerland.
Other nationality
You can enroll in civic service if you meet the following 2 conditions:
- Reside in France for more than 1 year
- Possess one of the required residence permits
In some cases, access is open even without a stay of more than one year in France.
Stayed in France for more than 1 year
You can enter civic service if you have been living in France for more than 1 year and you have one of the following residence permits:
- Temporary residence card bearing the mention private and family life
- Multi-annual residence card bearing the mention talent passport
- Multi-annual residence card bearing the mention talent passport family
- Multi-annual residence card bearing the mention beneficiary of stateless status or the mention family member of a beneficiary of stateless status
- Resident card bearing the endorsement EU long-term resident
- Resident Card
Signing a civic service contract cannot extend the validity of your residence permit.
Other situations
If you come from a country where French volunteers are on a mission under volunteer exchange agreements, you can engage in civic service without conditions of duration of stay in France.
You can also take up civic service if you have one of the following residence permits:
- Temporary residence card bearing the mention student
- General multi-annual residence permit issued after a first residence document
- Multi-annual residence card bearing the mention beneficiary of subsidiary protection or family member of a beneficiary of subsidiary protection
- Full resident card abroad recognized as a refugee
- Receipt of recognition of international protection issued byOfpra: titleContent or by NDA: titleContent
Signing a civic service contract cannot extend the validity of your residence permit.
Can we combine civic service with another activity?
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Employee
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being salaried worker.
However, civic service engagement is a sustained engagement that most often takes place full time.
If you keep your civic service commitment, you can do something else, regardless of how long it lasts.
Student
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being a student if you are able to reconcile your different schedules.
You can interrupt your graduate studies to complete your civic service engagement as part of your hyphenation period.
Job-seeker
You can stay registered in Pôle emploi for the duration of your mission. You will be placed in category 4 for people who are unemployed and not immediately available.
Please note
if you sign a CSD: titleContent at least 6 months or one DTA: titleContent, you may terminate your civic service contract without notice. In all other cases, you must respect a one-month notice.
Trainee
You cannot sign an internship agreement with the same organization at the same time as a civic service contract.
You can ask your training organization to validate this commitment period instead of an internship. The activities you carry out as part of your mission must be related to your training curriculum.
A specific agreement (which is not a traineeship agreement) can be signed by the 3 parties:
- You
- Host Organization
- Training organization
To search for a civic service engagement mission or pre-register, you can use the dedicated online service.
You need to set up your account on the online service.
Then you can apply directly to organizations offering missions.
Online Civic Service Engagement Application
You can also contact a local mission or the Youth Information Network.
After your registration, the Civic Service Agency will send you, by mail, your volunteer card.
This card offers the following services:
- Justify your volunteer status with third parties
- Enjoy the same financial benefits as a student (e.g. discounted museum tickets)
This card shall include the following information:
- Period of validity of the card (it corresponds to the duration of your commitment)
- Your first and last names
- Your signature
The menu is strictly personal.
In the event of a breach of your civic service commitment, you must hand the card to the organization in which you perform your mission.
Your mission is the subject of a contract between the organization and you.
Under certain conditions, your approved host organization, private or public, may ask you to work with one or more non-approved organizations. This must be specified in your contract.
You cannot work in private organizations whose activity is cult, political or trade union.
Your general interest tasks are complementary to the activities entrusted to employees or public officials. They cannot replace a job or an internship.
When registering or signing the contract, the host organization must inform you of the possibility of carrying out a free health examination. This test is supported by the CPAM: titleContent.
The mission is carried out in France and/or abroad.
Training
It is mandatory for organizations hosting volunteers in civic service to provide them with civic and civic training.
This training must include training in first aid.
It also includes modules addressing issues related to citizenship, including:
- Combating discrimination
- Gender equality
- Democracy
- Sustainable development
The content and conduct of these modules shall be defined by the host organization, which may organize them internally or call on an external organization.
Please note
other types of non-compulsory training may be offered by the host organizations as a complement to civic and civic training.
Social coverage
During your engagement, you benefit from state-funded social protection covering the following risks:
- Disease
- Maternity
- Disability
- Accident at work
Simply send a copy of the signed civic service contract to the Social Security fund that you depend on.
Students with a civic service contract may benefit from an exemption from membership of the student social security scheme.
The duration of civic service must cover the academic year of 1er October of year N to September 30 of year N+1 (for example, from 1er October 2021 to September 30, 2022).
Civic service does not entitle you to a mutual. But you can benefit from the complementary health solidarity if you meet the conditions.
FYI
civic service allows you to get basic pension rights. It doesn't give you rights to supplementary pension.
Costs of transportation and accommodation abroad
If your mission takes place abroad, additional costs may be added, particularly for transportation and accommodation on site.
Some missions receive support from the State or a local authority, on an exceptional basis.
In most cases, a significant part of the costs may be borne by you, even when the host organization makes its contribution.
Before signing your contract, it is strongly recommended to clarify the sharing of costs between the recognized organization and you, especially for transport and accommodation.
Leave
You are entitled to 3 days of leave per month.
The status of the young volunteer is specific. You're not an employee, a trainee, or a volunteer.
You don't get a salary, you get an allowance. However, there are some advantages to this.
You get the following benefits:
- Minimum monthly allowance of €541.17 crude (either €489.59 net)
- Provision of a minimum of €111.35 net in kind or in cash corresponding to food or transport costs
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €123.18 crude (either €111.45 net) can be paid if you meet one of the following conditions:
- Be a student receiving a scholarship on social criteria
- Be entitled to RSA
FYI
the amounts paid are exempt from income tax.
Accumulation with other allowances
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Return-to-work assistance allowance
For the duration of the mission, payment of your unemployment benefits is suspended, but you remain registered in Pôle emploi.
You are changing the classification of job seekers.
You're in category D.
It refers to people who are unemployed, not immediately available.
Think about update your situation with Pôle emploi before the mission begins. You will avoid having to overpay Pôle emploi.
At the end of the mission, you must update your situation within 5 days.
Payment of your unemployment benefits resumes when your assignment is completed. It has no effect on the amount or duration of the payment.
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance benefits at the end of your employment.
You can contact Pôle emploi by one of the following means:
- Online
- On the spot
- By telephone
In case of a move, you must inform Pôle emploi of your new place of residence. The agency is responsible for transferring the file.
- Pôle emploi for jobseekers - 3949
By telephone
39,49
- To update your situation, report a change of situation, inform you of a payment: automated service 7 days a week, 24 hours a day - Free service + call price
- To be put in contact with an advisor to register, to inform you, to modify an appointment: service accessible at the times set by each Pôle emploi agency - Free service + call price
From the foreigner: + 33 1 77 86 39 49
By E-mail
Access via the contact form
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance rights or your rights to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Income from active solidarity
Payments of the SSA or activity bonus shall be suspended for the duration of the mission and shall resume at the end of the mission. You must report changes in the situation to the Caf: titleContent or the MSA: titleContent.
Family Allowance Fund (Caf) online
If you are at the expense of your parents within the meaning of family benefitsHowever, the voluntary allowance you receive is not taken into account in calculating your parents' social assistance entitlements.
FYI
if you break an employment contract to perform your civic service engagement, that break is considered a lawful resignation. You will find your rights to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Disabled adults' allowance
The allowance and the Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA) are cumulative. The allowance is not taken into account in the calculation of the AAH.
Student Grant
Civic service has no impact on the terms and conditions of a student scholarship or its amount.
The civic service allowance is not included in the calculation of your grant.
You must have an end-of-engagement review, prepared by your host organization.
The assessment shall describe the following:
- Activities carried out
- Acquired skills
You receive a certificate of civic service.
- National Service Code: Article L120-1Provisions on civic service
- National Service Code: Articles L120-4 to L120-6Conditions relating to the voluntary person
- National Service Code: Articles L120-7 to L120-17Relationship between the voluntary person and the approved legal person
- National Service Code: Articles L120-18 to L120-24Allowance
- National Service Code: Articles L120-25 to L120-29Social protection
- National Service Code: Articles R121-10 to D121-21Content of the contract between the volunteer and the legal person
- National Service Code: Articles R121-22 to R121-32Calculation of the allowance
- Social Security Code: Article D412-98-1Social contribution paid by the legal person
- Social Security Code: Articles R321-2 to R321-6Obligation to inform the free health examination (Article R321-6)
- Order of 13 September 2010 on the criteria for payment of the increase in the civic service allowance
- Social Security Code: Articles L321-1 to L321-3Health insurance
- National Service Code: Articles R121-47 to R121-50Volunteer Card
- Ministerial Response of 19 November 2019 on Youth Guarantee and Civic Service
- Online Civic Service Engagement Application
Online service
FAQ
- VolunteersService-Public.fr
- Pôle emploi monthly updateService-Public.fr
- Income Tax - Report amounts received by your childService-Public.fr