ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ISHWARI MUKUND JOSHI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur | Nagpur, India | Advancing SDG 12 & UNAI 9
" Change is achievable if we seek it and the Millennium Fellowship will provide encouragement with a strong foundation of principles and tools which will help me enhance my pragmatic skills. My passion about bringing a series of small changes that cumulatively have a great impact will be fuelled bythis Fellowship and will provide a proper platform to achieve these goals at the international level. The confidence that I'll gain at the end of this semester-long program will help me to effectively continue my initiative to further improve myself and the communities around me. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Zero-Waste VNIT
To set up a system for the continuous propagation of change, we have decided to form a climate action society, under the official banner of our institution. As a society, our first goal is to develop a zero-waste plan for our university. The term zero-waste implies that no waste produced on campus is landfilled, and each type of waste is reprocessed and repurposed. We have conducted a waste audit of our campus and have been using the information we find to conduct a rudimentary economic analysis of the established waste management system. After we have done so, we will begin work on addressing the unsustainable aspects of the current waste management system, and proposing technical interventions for going zero-waste as a gated community. A zero-waste plan has thus been developed and, we are conducting an economic analysis to have quantitative proof of the returns obtained from such a plan. We will further present it before the relevant authorities of the institute and assist them in developing a zero-waste policy from the plan, which will act as approval for the implementation. The outcomes of this project involve the development of a zero-waste plan that will be able to translate to a dynamic zero-waste policy, and beginning the transition process to a zero-waste campus, addressing the multitude of dimensions required for sustainable change.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ishwari Joshi is a sophomore at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur pursuing B.Tech in Chemical Engineering. She is a big sustainability advocate and believes in chemical engineers can be the epitome of creating a bright and endurable future. Through her project, she is focusing on one of the major aspects that are leading to aggressive climate change which is waste mismanagement. She is passionate about eradicating martyric stereotypes about climate change and aiming to establish a sustainable economy that can create an abundance of beauty and happiness.
