{"id":959,"date":"2014-10-09T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2018-09-18T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T11:19:24","slug":"a-summer-interning-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2014\/10\/09\/a-summer-interning-in-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summer Interning in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Marta Silva (3rd year International Relations and French student)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a part of my French degree\u00a0I had to complete a 10 weeks work placement in a francophone country. Therefore I decided to start looking for an internship that could be useful not only to improve my French but to gain some experience in international relations as well. I started researching and sending some e-mails to NGOs and other organisations in Brussels and France. After some persistence and dedication I ended up with two offers: an internship in the Portuguese Embassy in Paris and an internship in a NGO in Brussels. \u00a0After considering the options and because I have a special interest in NGOs I chose to go to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-961\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/ephas-team.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-961\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/ephas-team.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"There is Marta front left in blue!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is Marta front left in blue!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I worked as a Policy Assistant for Health Equity and Policy Coherence at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epha.org\/\">European Public Health Alliance<\/a> (EPHA), which is a\u00a0Europe\u2019s leading NGO advocating for better health and part of\u00a0the\u00a0Social Platform, the\u00a0European Public Health and Agriculture Consortium (EPHAC), the\u00a0Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), and the\u00a0EU Civil Society Contact Group.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on public health issues like children\u2019s health, gender, poverty, mental health and social exclusion, doing research and writing briefings and reports.\u00a0I especially liked working on a report on the impact of the economic crisis on mental health among the child and adolescent population in Europe. I attended some conferences and workshops. I was lucky enough to work close to health professionals, high level policy makers from all over the world (UK, Canada, United States, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Poland, France, etc.). I was responsible to write the Tobacco Feed and send it every week to EPHA\u2019s members. I was also assisting in organizing the EPHA\u2019s annual conference in September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/epha-conference.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-962\" src=\"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/epha-conference.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"At the EPHA Conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the EPHA Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was a great experience, three rich months, where I improved my language skills and knowledge and definitely I have now a better understanding of the European Union and its organisations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marta Silva (3rd year International Relations and French student)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161081,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Anna Vanaga","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2018\/08\/blogs-holding680x453.jpg","postExcerpt":"By Marta Silva (3rd year International Relations and French student)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}