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Since joining Volt Europa in January 2019, I have been deeply involved in building communities, strengthening participation, and contributing to the sharing of best practices across transnational teams.
Over the years, I have also built solid expertise in starting collective dynamics, facilitating collaborative workshops, and leading complex organisational reforms through consensus-oriented processes.
FR & EUR Community team
FR & EUR Community team
Between 2020 and 2021, I became involved in the EUR Community team as Volt France Community Lead. I contributed to the co-creation of the European Community team’s 4-pillar strategy, worked on harmonising onboarding processes, and helped design a more welcoming experience for new members.
The Four Pillar Approach was developed to simplify how Volt Europa functions for new members by aligning the different groups and their roles across countries, making it easier for newcomers to understand the structure and identify the right people to connect with :
In a second phase, the EUR Community team, leaded by Sven Damm and Anna Gvelesiani, pushed for structural changes thank to a second learning group. The goals were to :
Build a diversity network within Volt Europa and to reach out to and build ties with important organisations across Europe
Create an overview of the tasks of local community teams and to harmonize our approach to community across Europe.
Define the growth stages of local teams and write a playbook to help people build and grow their team
On the diversity network aspect, the Learning Group supported the creation of several communities within Volt Europa that still exist today, alongside others created in recent years.
I mainly contributed to the two other objectives, focusing on participation and community development. Together, we achieved the creation of a Community Framework and launched the first version of the Growth Hacking Playbook.
Later, with the support of an Volt Europa intern, I continued developing the project and worked on gamifying the playbook to make it more accessible, engaging, and practical for local teams.
If you would like to explore the work in more detail, you can find it in this drive : Gamification
Sustained participation ? Gamification !
Sustained participation ? Gamification !
While working on participation and engagement methods within the EUR Community team, I explored how gamification could support community building and volunteer engagement.
Gamification is a participatory approach inspired by collaborative and citizen science, where complex challenges are transformed into accessible and engaging tasks using game mechanics and progression systems.
I believe these methods can make collaboration more motivating, inclusive, and sustainable within our volunteer-driven organisations.
Duolingo
This App is one of the best-known examples of gamification applied to long-term engagement, using levels, streaks, rewards, and progression systems to motivate sustained participation. Many community and volunteer systems draw inspiration from similar mechanics.
Foldit
This collaborative science project is one of the most well-known examples of gamification contributing to real scientific research.
Players have to solve protein-folding puzzles that help advance medical research and disease treatment. It demonstrates how distributed participation can collectively solve complex problems.
As often in Volt Europa, many innovative ideas already exist within the movement, it's just that we don't know about it.
Volt Campaigner app
Volt Deutschland developed an application allowing volunteers to geolocate the campaign posters they installed so they could later be removed efficiently.
The app also introduced a gamified participation system : depending on the number of posters placed in each neighbourhood, the area progressively changed colour. This encouraged volunteers to place more posters autonomously and creating a strong dynamic of grassroots mobilisation and community engagement.
Volt France is also experimenting with a gamify app to help volunteer involvement and onboarding.
If you would like to explore the solutions I propose to strengthen participation and develop gamification within Volt Europa, you can read my programme here : Link
Workshop facilitator
Workshop facilitator
During my time in the EUR Community team, I had the opportunity to attend a weekend training with Joost MF Liebregts, a professional workshop facilitator often referred to as “the Miro guy”.
The goal of “How to Workshop Workshop” was to learn how to use the online whiteboard Miro to design and facilitate collaborative workshops more effectively.
This experience allowed me to significantly strengthen my facilitation practice, which I later applied in various contexts, including organisational reforms within Volt France and professional settings, such as chairing consensus conferences >> LINK
Reforming Volt France
Reforming Volt France
Over the years, I have facilitated numerous workshops focused on participation, onboarding, governance reform, and organisational development. Here is 3 concrete examples :
“Challenge 50”
This challenge was launched at the end of 2020 to collect feedback on how to recruit and onboard new members within 50 days.
Beyond recruitment, it became a tool to reform onboarding, reorganise national teams into the 4-pillar structure, and reactivate inactive members and applicants from the 2019 European elections.
With 8 brainstorming sessions and 30 new members added in 50 days, the Challenge 50 was a real success.
>>> More informations here : LINK
French legislative elections programme
Ahead of the 2021 legislative elections, I organised a collaborative workshop to help define the main orientations and priorities of the programme.
Reforming Volt France Statutes
As Treasurer of Volt France, I initiated and supported a major collaborative reform of the organisation’s statutes and internal structure.
Over a six-month process involving members from across France, we worked collectively to improve internal democracy, decentralise decision-making, introduce stronger checks and balances while better clarify governance processes.
>>> More informations here : LINK
Reforming Volt Europa ?
Reforming Volt Europa ?
I want to use this knowledge and experience to help Volt Europa strengthen participation, build sustainable communities, and empower volunteers across Europe.
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