Mentors and Mentees of the YWNGI Mentorship Programme at the 2023 EUNPDC Conference

The Annual Conference [2] of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium [3] (EUNPDC), a major international event that, each year, gathers non-proliferation and disarmament officials and experts from around the world, was held in Brussels on 4 and 5 December 2023. The Conference was organised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI).

Mentors and Mentees of the 2023-2024 edition of the Young Women and Next Generation Initiative (YWNGI) Mentorship Programme [4] were invited to attend the Conference as well as the EUNPDC Next Generation Workshop [5] on 4 December 2023.

On the eve of the events, Mentors and Mentees had the opportunity to meet each other in person and participate in group activities to facilitate networking and promote a sense of community among participants of the Mentorship Programme.