Format and organisation
🤝 Collaborative Organisation: Events were co-created with local Volt chapters and external partners, ensuring relevance to each city’s diaspora community.
💡Speaker Selection: Panels featured a mix of activists, academics, and professionals, with attention to gender and expertise.
👯‍♀️ Promotion & Outreach: Social media campaigns, Eventbrite registration, and direct engagement with diaspora organisations maximized reach.👍 Accessibility: Events were open to all, with language support (Albanian, English, German) and targeted outreach to students and youth.
⚠️ Challenges: Organizing a project like the Diaspora Tour can be a turning point for a small Volt chapter. If executed well, it brings tremendous visibility, attracts new members, and helps build partnerships with other progressive organisations. However, underestimating the workload or team size needed can have serious consequences. If the team is stretched too thin, the risk of burnout and demotivation increases, members may feel overwhelmed and either step back temporarily or leave altogether. Worse, if these issues arise after the events have already been announced, it can damage the reputation of the chapter and undermine trust with the community. Careful planning, realistic team capacity assessments, and contingency strategies are essential to ensure that the project delivers positive impact rather than unintended setbacks. 

Content and audience fit
📌  Content Fit: Content fit is closely tied to the target audience. In our case, Albanian and Kosovar NGOs are rarely approached by European organisations for genuine dialogue, which made our partnership approach unique and impactful. By collaborating with local partners who truly understood the cities we visited, we ensured that our sessions resonated with the community and addressed real needs. We were fortunate that the Albanian diaspora valued being engaged by a European organisation like Volt, and appreciated the freedom to share their perspectives and priorities. This openness created an environment where actionable knowledge, was not just presented, but tailored to the lived experiences of our participants. The result was a series of sessions that felt relevant, empowering, and deeply appreciated by those who are often overlooked in broader European conversations. 
🤝 Engagement: High participation from diverse backgrounds; strong interest in practical tools for civic engagement and policy impact.
➡️ Network Building: Formation of new partnerships with diaspora organisations (e.g., OdaHamburg,etc…), and local Volt chapters

Continuity and sustainability
💡 Continuity: Very important to maintain ongoing engagement (through Telegram, WhatsApp groups, newsletters, or follow-up events).  While our small team and some fatigue limited our capacity to fully capitalize on this momentum, we still saw a notable increase in membership requests to Volt Kosova following the tour. This highlights both the appetite for continued involvement and the potential impact of even modest efforts to foster community beyond the initial events.
♾️ Sustainability: Diaspora communities should be a top priority for a party like Volt, given their potential for impact across borders. However, their fragmentation and the high costs associated with organizing tours make sustainable engagement challenging. To address this, it’s essential to secure partners ahead of time who can share the financial burden (such as inviting speakers from NGOs who are able to cover part of their own travel expenses). Other options include introducing entrance ticketing to offset costs, or (perhaps most effectively) building partnerships between smaller Volt chapters and larger, better-resourced ones. Ultimately, relying solely on Volt There funds for a multi-city tour is unrealistic unless you limit travel to a single speaker and have strong local volunteer teams to handle event management on the ground. Strategic partnerships and creative funding models are crucial for making diaspora engagement both impactful and financially viable.