{"id":4655,"date":"2025-07-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=4655"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:10:41","slug":"capacity-building-2025-ge4cities-come-together-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/event\/capacity-building-2025-ge4cities-come-together-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Capacity Building 2025: gE4Cities come together in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brief recap of these days: the&nbsp;<strong>two-day training<\/strong>&nbsp;was designed to bring together representatives of our gE4Cities network to deepen&nbsp;<strong>advocacy and lobbying strategies<\/strong>, focusing on building self-funding capacities and long-term sustainability at the local level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The training sessions included interactive workshops on effective communication, techniques, and practical approaches to developing strategies. Participants also engaged in case studies and group discussions that helped enhance their skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a training that saw active participation from our network. These were intense days full of idea exchange, discussions, and personal and professional development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big thank you to our trainer,&nbsp;<strong>Ad\u00e9la Smejkalov\u00e1<\/strong>, for her professionalism and expertise. Special thanks also to all participants and collaborators from all over Europe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big thank you also goes to&nbsp;<strong>Fabrizio Bitetto<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>President of garagErasmus<\/strong>, who took part in the event to introduce the garagErasmus organization and the next steps in our agenda, including the launch of garagErasmus\u2019s new social media campaign,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/fighting-euroapathy-the-new-garagerasmus-campaign-to-fight-indifference-towards-the-eu\/\">Fighting EuroApathy<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/strong>designed to fight apathy towards European Institutions and reconnect citizens with the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event was co-funded by&nbsp;<strong>Erasmus+<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Erasmus+ Student and Alumni Alliance<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 10th and 11th, the Capacity Building 2025 event took place in the fantastic location of Athens, Greece, co-organized by garagErasmus together with Youthmakers Hub and the Demos Center of The American College of Greece, who hosted the event.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4657,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"event-category":[12],"class_list":["post-4655","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garagerasmus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}