2023-06-10 09:13:55
The platform for awarding these passes must open Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. on the passefrancegermany.fr site on the principle of “first come, first served”.
France and Germany will offer 60,000 passes to young people aged 18 to 27 so that they can travel freely on the rail network of the neighboring country, with seven days of travel offered, over a period of one month.
The platform for awarding these passes must open Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. on the site passefranceallemagne.fr on the principle of “first come, first served”, indicated Renaud Delpech, Europe adviser to the Minister Delegate for Transport Clément Beaune, during a presentation of the project to journalists.
Half of the 60,000 passes are intended for young French citizens and residents and the other half for young Germans. This pass “will allow travel from July 1 to December 31 for a Frenchman in Germany and a German in France and to have unlimited access to the rail network,” said Renaud Delpech.
This offer applies to all lines, both regional and high-speed, and is valid for one month from the first trip made. It then allows seven days of unlimited travel.
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On the French side, half of the 30,000 passes will be distributed as a priority to “scholarship students, young apprentices or young people in integration (…) the idea being that young people further from Germany have access to this free and unlimited pass “, explained Renaud Delpech.
On the apprentice side, “the objective is to organize the distribution of these tickets to deserving apprentices or who have won within their own organizations competitions of excellence”, explained Axel Cournede, training and apprenticeship advisor to Carole Grandjean, the Minister in charge of Education and Vocational Training.
For example, around 100 tickets will be reserved for the winners of the best apprentice competition and several thousand are intended for the network of apprentice training centers (CFA).
This initiative, financed by the German government, the French state, Deutsche Bahn and the SNCF, was decided during the Franco-German council of ministers last January in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Elysée treaty.
The operation “passes only by train, which makes it a very ecological initiative and in resonance with the demands of young people”, underlined Renaud Delpech.
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