The United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network present the Millennium Fellowship for Undergraduate student leaders. The Millenium palace shop is a semester-long leadership development program that is held on campus. The United Nations Academic Impact and MNC help to elevate the leadership. This program convenes, challenges, and celebrates bold student leadership advancing the sustainable development goals on campus and in communities. Millennium campus network INC. is a global network advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development goals. Through this program, students from various parts of the world work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015.
What Is Millennium Fellowship 2023?
- Between admission in August and the conclusion of the program in November 2022, cohorts of Millennium Fellows will convene locally on their respective campuses at least monthly to engage in the leadership development program.
- Fellows will be challenged by Campus Directors to share best practices and take collective action on one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Upon successful completion, each Millennium Fellow will receive recognition of completion for their Millennium Fellowship Project from MCN and UNAI.
- The program will take place on selected campuses worldwide soon. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and eligible students will proceed to the second and final round of the application.
Benefits of Fellowship
The benefits of Fellowship is below-
- Certificate of recognition from United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network.
- The applicant will get valuable leadership experience.
- Network of worldwide leaders.
- Experience in community social Change.
- Training and coaching
- Access to an international community platform (7,000 + peers from over 300 universities in 50 + countries)
Eligibility Criteria for Millennium Fellowship
- The applicant must be an undergraduate student in good academic standing for the duration of the program.
- The applicant must be at least 18 years old.
- You make a commitment to convene in person at least eight times during the Millennium Fellowship (for 2022 the program will run August-November 2022) with your Campus Directors and other Fellows on your campus to share best practices and take collective action. Students have to meet on campus, in person for the Fellowship sessions.
- Commit to convene in person at least eight times with your Campus Directors and Fellows over the course of the program.
- Working or plan to work on a project between August-November 2022 that advances at least one Sustainable Development Goal
Application Procedure for Millennium Fellowship Programme
- Application
Each selected campus hub will typically have 8-20 Millennium Fellows (meaning you are strongly encourage to invite your colleagues and classmates on your campus to apply as well).
When you apply, you are asked to submit your Millennium Fellowship Project. Whatever your project is, it must be time-bound – something you can make a meaningful, measurable impact on during the Millennium Fellowship (August-November) and it must advance at least one Sustainable Development Goal and one UNAI principle. For some examples, it could be (but is not limited to):
- leading your campus organization (for example, a chapter of AIESEC, ENACTUS, or UNICEF) that advances UN goals.
- student journalism – writing a series on the Sustainable Development Goals for your campus newspaper.
- running a social enterprise.
- innovative research that concretely advances UN goals.
- proposing a collective action as a Project – a campus-wide and/or community-wide initiative that advances UN goals.
- Convene, Challenge, and Celebrate
A minimum of 8 convenings between August and November are conven by the Millenium Fellows on their respective campuses.
During these sessions, Campus Directors will lead you through the MCN Action Toolkit – an adaptive curriculum to help you reflect on core values, hone skills, and take informed action for UN goals.
As a campus hub, you will get exposed to a variety of elements during the Fellowship sessions as part of the MCN Action Toolkit:
- cultivating core values (empathy, humility, inclusion).
- honing hard skills (how to write a budget, and create SMART goals).
- honing soft skills (team management, pitching your Project).
- peer-to-peer feedback – sharing best practices to help each other overcome obstacles to your Project and exploring further opportunities for collaboration.
- You will take on the challenge – of engaging in peer-to-peer feedback to support the Projects of your peers as you lead your own.
- As a campus hub, you may also choose to take on a collective action – for example, working with your administration to update a campus sustainability plan.
- If you have been an active Millennium Fellow and completed your Project, the MCN and UNAI will celebrate your work: you will earn a certificate recognizing the successful completion of your Millennium Fellowship Project from United Nations Academic Impact and MCN.
- Joining the Alumni Community
Join over 6,000+ MCN alumni to date and build a career with social impact.
Meet The Fellows
- Open the official website of the fellowship program.
- The homepage of the website will open on the screen.
- Now from the homepage, go to the meet the fellow’s option.
- A new page will open on the screen.
- The page will have all the details of the fellows.
- Select the details like region, country, University, etc to meet the fellows of your choice
Contact Information
- Ideas/Questions: fellowship@mcnpartners.org or by Facebook message
- Complaints: complaints@mcnpartners.org
- Feedback and input on fellowship during the COVID-19 situation with the subject line “Coronavirus” to fellowship@mcnpartners.org.