BELGIUM FLARE GOVERNANCE Samuel Ajakaiye, Somerville College, First Year Undergraduate, BA History and Modern Languages (French), Remote working Work Projects Throughout the internship, I was involved in a range of the organisation’s work in my role as Community, Outreach and Dialogue Co-ordinator. One of the things I did love about the internship was that I could carve out the role I wanted and work on aspects of Flare’s work that appealed most to me. Most of my work revolved around the development of an interesting upcoming dialogue on football culture, but I also joined at the tail-end of a dialogue on food systems which I was able to help facilitate. Over the 6 weeks, I took part in various meetings to develop our dialogue approach; I took part in outreach to bring together policymakers, professionals and fans and I also researched and identified key sources of funding that would finance the dialogue. Throughout all of this, I did a combination of independent and collaborative work which meant that there was a constant process of constructive feedback within the team. Whilst the dialogue will take place after my internship has ended, I know I have been able to play an instrumental role in its development and I can’t wait to see how it goes when it does take place. Daily Life It was a remote internship and therefore it consisted of a lot of time in front of my computer as well as on zoom meetings, which did become a bit draining by the end of the six weeks. However, the flexibility of the internship meant that I was able to take the
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