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 VEDANT EKNATH MAHAJAN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur | Nagpur, India | Advancing SDG 12 & UNAI 9
" This Millennium Fellowship is a program where brilliant young leaders from around the world unite to address social causes. I believe in impactful action to achieve change, and young leaders like us can lead this change in their communities and around the globe.Through this Millennium Fellowship , I will get valuable exposure and experience while learning under the guidance and mentorship of an experienced professor. It will help me to gain new insights and perspectives while also getting the opportunity to meet other experts in the field.
I will get much-needed help that will allow me to forge ahead and to give effective solutions to intricate problems while working on my project. This excites me and drives me towards my work "
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
Vedant Mahajan is an Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. He is an compassionate leader with a 'leading from front attitude'. As part of this evolving generation, he is passionate about creating different ideas that will be unique and pragmatic to effectively create a better sustainable lifestyle for the upcoming generation. Through his project he want to address the most challenging task before mankind 'Sustainable waste management'. He believes that although it is impossible to bring our waste down to zero, we as a community should take one step forward to reduce this catastrophic problem with sustainable solutions.
