Newsletter week 37 - 2023 (EN)

We at Volt Belgium hope that you had a fantastic summer and recharged your batteries. Over the summer break we have been busy gearing up to run an exciting and promising campaign in the coming months for the 2024 elections. Therefore we are happy to start a weekly newsletter.

Sep 13, 2023
Volter with megaphone in crowd

Dear Volters,

We at Volt Belgium hope that you had a fantastic summer and recharged your batteries. Over the summer break we have been busy gearing up to run an exciting and promising campaign in the coming months for the 2024 elections. Therefore we are happy to start a weekly newsletter. In this newsletter we will inform you about:

  • Upcoming Events

  • Reminder deadline call for Lead candidates

  • Full time Expansion manager vacancy

  • Volunteer Vacancies

Upcoming Events

We have planned some interesting and engaging events in the coming weeks, here some highlights:

  • Webinar by our Electoral Taskforce on 14 Sept (tomorrow)

  • Presentation of the Brussels Regional Program and Street action on 17 Sept

  • Chat with MEP Sophie in 't Veld on 18 Sept

  • National Congres of Volt Nederland 23 Sept

  • Presentation of the Flemish Regional Program on 27 Sept

Have a look at our events on our website for the details!

Check our events

Candidate Selection

The Electoral Board has published on 20 August the call for candidates to become Volt Belgium's lead candidates for the 2024 June elections (European, Federal, Regional). The deadline to apply is 15 September (in two days from now). Please note that the lead candidate positions is restricted to Volt members. If you are not a member yet, this might be a good moment to become a member yourself. More information is available to our members here:

Requirements (public access)

Explanatory Document (member access)

Form to apply as a Lead candidate (member access)

Note that all other positions on our lists are also open for non-members who agree with our vision and our values. More information about the regular list candidates will be published shortly by our Electoral Board. Should you have any questions, you can always contact them at [email protected].

Vacancies

At Volt Belgium we are mostly volunteers, however, thanks to generous donations to Volt Europa, we will be offered to hire together a Full time paid Expansion Manager for Volt Belgium and Volt Luxembourg:

Find out more about this paid position

Do you want to help us in other ways? We are looking for many volunteers to help us out with:

  • Managing our Communications

  • Organising Events

  • Coordinating Campaigns

  • Growing City Teams

  • much more!

Check out our other volunteering vacancies

Are you feeling the campaign tingle yet?
Cause we certainly are!

With purple greetings,

Carlo Giudice, Co-President
for the team at Volt Belgium