• In Paris, only 3% of Paris metros are accessible to people with reduced mobility.

  • OMNI offers an alternative, with another travel system combining an electric scooter and a wheelchair.

  • After responding to a call for innovation for mobility, OMNI will accompany Paris for the 2024 Olympics in order to make the capital more inclusive.

In 2021, OMNI won the grand prize of the Lépine competition.

This invention, which combines a manual wheelchair and an electric scooter, has simplified the lives of many people with disabilities.

From now on, they will accompany the City of Paris for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.

While they will take place in less than two years, OMNI could be an effective alternative for spectators and athletes.

For this event, France should receive around 350,000 people with disabilities according to the City of Paris.

However, only one metro line is accessible to people with reduced mobility: the 14. A worrying but not alarming observation according to Charlotte Alaux, co-founder of OMNI: “We still have work to do, but there are a lot of solutions”.

Self-service wheelchair

And solutions, Charlotte wants to find some.

Thanks to the clip that OMNI sells, it is possible to clip your chair onto an electric scooter.

No more cobblestones or sidewalks that are too high, now Paris is accessible to everyone: “We hacked this consumer product with our bindings.

We have a more affordable product.

The first price with 20 km of autonomy is 1289 euros against 10,000 to 15,000 euros for an electric wheelchair.

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Although self-service scooters are currently not suitable for the OMNI installation, Charlotte is working to make them accessible: "The scooters that we see in the street are not accessible because they are too bulky and the handlebar is too high.

But we responded to a call for innovation for mobility within the framework of Paris 2024. We are working with Dott, or Tiers to facilitate travel.

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Direction Paris 2024

Extensive work in view of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With only 3% of metros accessible to people with reduced mobility in Paris, OMNI wants to make travel easier for visitors: "It's the promise of doing great things, of being able to radiate .

We're the only ones doing that in the world.

You have to show that you have the know-how,” explains Charlotte.

But more than making it easier for visitors to travel, OMNI also makes it possible to accompany athletes.

This is the case of Moëz El Assine, Paralympic medalist of the French team.

He ensured in video the journey from the Gare du Nord to the Stade de France, without incident.

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If Charlotte and the OMNI team feel confident for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, they will nevertheless "need help to do so".

And thus make Paris more inclusive than it has ever been.

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  • Paris

  • Ile-de-France

  • Scooter

  • Disability

  • Olympic Games