Quartier Jeunes

What Quartier Jeunes does

Quartier Jeunes (QJ) is a municipal youth services center operated by the City of Paris (Ville de Paris), established in 2021 to serve young people aged 16-30 residing in Paris and the Île-de-France region. The program operates as a walk-in, publicly funded civic service with no commercial revenue model — all services are provided free of charge. QJ provides a universal, barrier-free physical space offering collaborative workspaces (open access within capacity limits), personalized advisory services, and comprehensive information across multiple life domains including training, professional integration, health, access to rights, civic engagement, leisure, culture, sport, and well-being.

The core offering combines a digital service directory portal (qj.paris.fr) with in-person support at a single physical location in central Paris. The portal allows youth to search for services by type, time, audience, and keywords. A forthcoming café space represents a planned amenity expansion. QJ serves a horizontal segmentation of youth profiles — high school students, university students, young professionals, civic service volunteers, job seekers, interns, apprentices, and volunteers — without distinction. The organization operates with 5 employees and relies on City of Paris digital infrastructure for communications, including paris.fr and official municipal social media channels.

QJ's business model is entirely non-commercial: it is funded through the City of Paris municipal budget as a government_state_entity under the legal name "Programme Quartier Jeunes." There are no funding rounds, no commercial pricing tiers, no proprietary technology platforms, and no disclosed revenue. The program's competitive positioning rests on its institutional mandate as a municipal institution, its physical presence in central Paris, and its holistic multi-domain service offering that no private alternative replicates within the same integrated model.

Name

Quartier Jeunes

Legal name

Programme Quartier Jeunes

Website

https://qj.paris.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quartier Jeunes is a municipal youth services center operated by the City of Paris, providing free walk-in access to collaborative workspaces and multi-domain advisory services for youth aged 16-30 in Paris and Île-de-France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Commuter Student Life & Non-Residential Engagement (EDALAHAK)

Keywords

• Youth services
• Career guidance
• Employment support
• Community workspace
• Civic engagement

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Quartier Jeunes is a municipal walk-in youth center in central Paris offering free collaborative workspaces and personalized advisory services to young people aged 16-30 from Paris and Île-de-France. It provides guidance and concrete solutions across training, professional integration, health, access to rights, civic engagement, leisure, culture, sport, and well-being, with services delivered in person at the QJ site and via a digital portal.

Product overview

Quartier Jeunes (QJ) is a single unified youth services portal and physical space in central Paris. The platform serves as a one-stop point of access for young people aged 16-30 across Paris and Île-de-France, addressing their diverse needs through free collaborative workspaces, comprehensive guidance services across multiple life domains (formation, insertion professionnelle, santé, accès aux droits, engagement citoyen, loisirs, culture, sport, bien-être), and an upcoming café space. The offering combines a digital portal with in-person support services, all accessible without distinction to any profile of young person.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Quartier Jeunes (QJ) Center Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Mission Locale de Paris: Direct peer providing professional integration, training, and employment advisory services for Parisian youth. Like QJ, it targets 16-25 year-olds and is publicly funded, but it lacks QJ's universal walk-in workspace and broader multi-domain (health, culture, civic) scope.
• Centre Régional Information Jeunesse (CRIJ) Île-de-France: Regional youth information center serving the same Île-de-France territory as QJ. Comparable in mission (centralized information and guidance for youth), but operates primarily as an information resource rather than a physical collaborative workspace.
• Maisons des Adolescents: Municipal/departmental centers providing welcoming spaces, counseling, and multi-domain support for adolescents. Comparable universal-access model and physical-workspace concept, though typically targeted at younger ages (12-20) than QJ's 16-30 range.
• Bureau Information Jeunesse (BIJ): National French network of youth information centers providing free advisory services across employment, training, housing, and civic engagement — closely mirroring QJ's advisory portfolio, though typically without the integrated collaborative-workspace component.
• Espaces Dynamiques d'Insertion (EDI): Insertion spaces providing multi-service support for disadvantaged youth including employment, training, and social guidance. Comparable holistic service philosophy and physical-workspace model, but typically focused on more disadvantaged sub-populations.

Emerging players

• Le Carillon: Paris-based nonprofit supporting people in precarious situations, including youth, through community solidarity networks. Adjacent in mission and Paris geography, but operates via partner merchant networks rather than a dedicated physical service center.

Regional players

• Youth Employment UK: UK-based organization providing youth employment guidance, training resources, and career advisory services. Comparable advisory portfolio for youth, though operating primarily digitally rather than through a single physical hub like QJ.
• Jugendberatungshaus Berlin: Berlin's municipal youth advisory centers providing free counseling and guidance for young people across multiple life domains. Operates the same universal-access, multi-domain public-service philosophy as QJ but within the German municipal context.

Broad incumbents

• Pôle Emploi: France's national public employment agency, providing employment advisory, training, and benefits services. Overlaps with QJ on the professional-integration domain but is a much larger, employment-only incumbent without QJ's broader life-domain scope.
• CASVP - Centre d'Action Sociale de la Ville de Paris: City of Paris social action agency, the parent-municipal umbrella under which QJ operates. Provides broader social assistance including elder care and disability services — a much wider scope but the closest institutional analog and likely operational partner.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Paris
• Facebookfacebook.com/ParisJeunes
• Instagraminstagram.com/qjparis
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/qj-paris

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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