VOLT EUROPA REPORT #13 Christmas end-of-year December 2020 Chapter 1: Foreword Chapter 2: European Parliament European Parliament team Our Next Steps Our Road So Far • Seeing all Volters in one • Damian’s AFCO • Trip to Athens to meet place again! Coordinatorship in the the Greek Government Starting negotiations on Greens/EFA Group and talk about Migration. • • Our proposal for a fair & Read Damian’s post here Electoral Law and making efficient asylum system • Negotiating the largest a big splash on that front in Europe. Read here ever spending together with Volt Starting the Conference • Proposal on the Crucial programme of the EU - • Role of Migrant Workers the corona funds also on the Future of Europe in the EU. Read here called Recovery and • Starting negotiations on • Own Initiative Report Resilience Facility (RRF) the New Pact on Asylum (INI) on the New Avenues • Being appointed as the & Migration w/ a focus on for Labour migration (we responsible MEP for the the crisis mechanism finally have an EP report on the future of Our 2020 Major Success regulation (of which position!!!) Artificial Intelligence for Damian is a shadow) the Greens/EFA in the • Working on EU digital AIDA Special committee policy in the Data Strategy, AI committee Chapter 3: European teams Volt Europa Our Road So Far Our Next Steps Elections Social innovation campaigns - Participated in elections in - #EuropeCares • National elections in the Austria, Bulgaria, France, - Demonstration against Moria Netherlands, Bulgaria and Germany, Italy - COFE Germany - From 1 → 37 representatives in - I need morning after pill • Local elections in Spain, Bulgaria, Italy & Germany - ECI selection Italy, France, Denmark, - >5% of the votes in major cities - Values Over Power Our thriving Volt community Portugal in Nordrhein-Westfalen - Stop Homelessness • Start our ‘high speed train network’ ECI campaign empowers citizens to • General Assembly on April collaborate across borders 24/25 Consolidate, improve, and • General Assembly in innovate October/November with - New mission & narrative - Steady membership growth EUR board elections - New vision & strategy - Social Media follower growth • Creation of Volt Manifest - New policy framework, - Built capacity and leadership in • Further improve, innovate process & policies the European team and grow our movement - Improved design - New community organizers - Improved organigram - Financially healthy Copyright on drawing is from Volter Jacopo Maggi Current numbers Volt Europe Facts & Figures*: *6.12.2020 (previous number in brackets) > 5410 (5198) National legal Members Average-Age: f/d > 3950 (3.952) 23.5% AISBL Volt Europa Members > 14 34.8 National parties m > 45 National Chapters (31) 76.5% Volt Abroad (7) New Territories (21) *Quelle: volt.teams, 20.1.2020 Quelle: Volt-Website EUR GSO - Internal organization Functional leads positions opened up: embracing many new 2021 faces to the team 2020 Team atmosphere: bi-weekly meetings February marked the Strategic objectives with the functional leads including start of the new translated into action: report to each other and the Board General Secretaries coming alive soon Office: Lennard Professionalize Volt: Everwien and Anouk Improved transparency of the grow as organization Lennard stepping Ooms Board meetings with decisions so each can find their down to focus on making proposals and overview way EuropeCares: with minutes available to the welcoming Johannes movement Heinrich as our new Making best out of General Secretaries meetings: connect throughout Europe and support male GS Covid-19: online GA’s National Chapters in their internal organizational challenges EUR community team • We are working on creating a European • Started into the year Onboarding process with only one overworked • We want to help team member, • We grew! From 1 2021 2019 create an finishing it now with person to 7 intranet where a bunch of laughing wonderful team • We want to make all information is faces members local onboarding a easily available • Did a small part in simple process & creating a standardized • We designed a new, make resources European capacity clearer membership available for all • We are working with building procedure for structure & are teams a lot of different functional teams rolling it out • We want to give a teams & trying to platform to share improve internal good practices all communication flow • We created our over Europe in Volt vision together with national teams EUR Public Affairs team Our Next Steps Our Road So Far • Formalize our working Getting started: Research, discuss, advise structure • We set up a new EUR • We started assessing the • Improve internal and functional team to advise potential and needs of external coordination & the EUR Board national Volt chapters for ensure clear channels for • Our focus is on political the 2024 EP election input & actionable strategy, analysis, rapid • We advise Valerie and feedback response and Reinier in their daily work, • Finalize framework for forward-planning e.g. preparing talking country chapter • We defined our core points for events and SM, assessment with regard to mission and team background checks of 2024 EP election objectives, opened potential allies • Proactively and channels of • Mapping of multi-level strategically position Volt communication & priorities and in public debate intelligence gathering opportunities to inform leadership EUR Communication We have launched We have revealed shows on YouTube Volt’s updated design, and Twitch! and it rocks like jingle 2021 2019 bells! We went from 300 to We are going to work 4000 people on on improving our Discord We gave our website We helped the email newsletters. an update, redoing #stophomeless We created a Volt the structure, design petition which narrative to help & functionality. went all the way to the EP! We’re about to launch communicate our story an intranet for all with one voice. comms teams. We tried a new way of We created a content calendar, sharing our campaigning and launched We’re days away from launching (adaptable!) content with comms teams to the #ValuesOverPower the updated Volt brand design & make their role easier. hashtag. it rocks like Jingle Bells! EUR Partnerships Our Mission: We build sustainable relationships with external partners by representing Volt Europe authentically, 2021 creating value for them, society, and for Volt. We do this, in order to create a constant trust We will onboard the new 2020 in and a profound connection with Volt and co-leads and go operative Volt’s vision of a united and better Europe. early in 2021 In Q2, we proposed to the EUR board to let us found an EUR Partnerships team to Tobie Albrecht - former streamline and unite german Partnerships partnership efforts co-lead - was appointed volt-wide by the board to set-up the team, mission, We also started to be infrastructure and to engaged in our first In Q3 we finished the cross-functional projects onboard/train the new set-up process and leads with the lovely Volters feedback with the EUR from EUR Comms and GS and are ready to Expansion publish the vacancies Volt Academy Our Next Steps Training Programmes Our Road So Far • Leadership Development launch - 20 participants Key Workshops 2020 • Candidate training => Run4Volt Volt’s Birthday => Covid19 roll-out in EUR countries Europe week => EU Citizen involvement • Campaign capacity building Webinar => Situation in Hungary • Achieving gender balance => EUR Functions => Strategy Statement of Work Road to 50 EUR roll-out Webinar => Situation in Belarus • Narrative roll-out to Countries Collaboration / Growth Challenges 2020 European Academy programmes • Strengthen X-EUR collabor. • Country academies preparations started in 2020 • Country Academies growth • European-wide setup • Leadership development • Academy team capacity • NL => Run4Volt for Europe Digitalisation • Strategy => Volt Narrative roll-out • Digital Training framework Events EUR Events 2020 Vision 2021 ● 3 General Assemblies • Strategic Action “Debating ● 3 Roundtables “Stand up to Racism” Culture” ● 4 Volt Meets Experts • Foster more exchange between ● 4 Volt Discussion Series National and Local Events ● 6 Meet Volt Europa (6th in 12/20) Teams ● 3 Volt Blind Dates • A physical GA 拾 ● 1 Workshops (Pro European Meet Up) • European Policy Meet Ups as ● 24 Digital European Events new format ● + tons of great Events with European focus organized • European Public (Cross-Border) by national and local teams:) Actions • Grow as team EUR Tech Team Our Road So Far Our Next Steps • Successful launches in 2020: • Services provided • Enhance our current ○ Volt Content Platform ○ Support of GAs and systems and incorporate ○ Tusker Mailing & LiveEvent participatory more solutions modules processes at EUR ○ Helpdesk ticketing solution and national level • Build more capacity ○ Beginning of migration ○ Volt.team towards European servers improvements for • Develop the Community architecture for Volt 3.0 • Team restructure (“The Pan-European party”) • Capacity Building Plan EUR Finance Team Great success of Social Strong base finances impact campaigns ready to level up and become a centralised 2021 2019 organisation for MA’s Internal audit ● Started 2019 procedures go live preparing the move from Luxembourg to Belgium ● Building the ● First live budget sustainability of Volt discussion at GA in Finance so we can Sofia. run for years to come ● Mirta joined as Implementing an Implementing Co-lead focussing on unified accounting Membership fee Audit system collection technology