ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2023
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. 44,000+ student leaders from 3,300+ campuses across 170+ nations applied to join the Class of 2023. 260+ campuses worldwide (just 9%) in 38 countries were selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows for the Class of 2023.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ŞEYMA BÜYÜKKAYA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Manisa Celal Bayar University | Manisa, Türkiye | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9
Millennium Fellowship Project: Building a Resilient Campus and Community
In this project, we want to raise awareness about earthquakes and create a pilot safe zone against disasters. Our Project is divided into 6 topics. These are;
• Women and Children Rights
• Energy
• Climate Change
• Equality
• Global Poverty
• Economy
All my teammates are working on one of these topics. As a team, we are preparing presentations, posters, videos, etc. These materials will used as tools for raising awareness among young people. Firstly, we have been doing presentations on our campus and we are trying to expand our Project throughout the city of Manisa. Secondly, we are contacting with municipalities and governors for the pilot safe area on our campus.
In fact, the first step of this project is to raise awareness among people against earthquakes. As we have recently experienced during and after the earthquake disasters in our country in this year, global warming, failures in energy and telecommunications policies, ignoring gender equality, and economic inadequacies double the consequences of these disasters.
The second step includes the measures we should take after the earthquakes. Our dream is to assist as many victims of these earthquakes as possible to recover with minimum material and moral damage.
About the Millennium Fellow
Seyma Buyukkaya is student of the Political Science and Internatıonal Relation at Manisa Celal Bayar University. Seyma is passionate about touching people’s lives and helping them especially women’s and children. Seyma has constantly researched about gender equality in her education life and attended many seminars on women’s right, children’s rights and human rights. Through her project, she hopes all women that living in earthquake zone will freely express their wishes, social taboos will be destroyed and they will have equal access to basic needs. After she graduates, Seyma plans to earn master’s degree in sociology and she will establish her dream association.
