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 NAYANTARA ALVA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2023.
Sciences Po Le Havre | Le Havre, France | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 9
Millennium Fellowship Project: Break The Waves
Our project revolves around awareness, activism and structural change against the constant growth of the Le Havre cruise-ship industry, fuelled by constant increase of the municipal budget towards tourism. As we learned from the expert and anti-cruise activist Gregoire Thery, not only are these cruise-ships extremely detrimental to the aquatic life and air quality of Le Havre (each ship burning upto 250 tons of fuel a day), but the cruise-fuelled tourism industry also occupies a very small part of the local revenue, as visitors tend to spend only a day or two in the city itself. Charged by this knowledge, our goal is to make it known among the Sciences Po community, in an attempt to increase involvement toward the cause. We hope to partner with ‘Pas Que Beau’, an organisation currently fighting towards structural change, as well as ‘Hangar Zero’, a location both to screen documentaries/ self-made videos of compiled local interviews with cruise workers and experts, and a forum to inspire discussion and action towards our cause. Additionally, we aim to collaborate with the student-lead ‘LH Policy Lab’ at Sciences Po in formulating policy suggestions to bring forth to the municipal. This is our ultimate goal: to act as mediators between the municipal and the city, transforming collective concerns into structural change aimed at protection of the environment.
About the Millennium Fellow
Nayantara Alva is an Economy and Society major at Sciences Po Paris, Campus du Havre. Passionate about the intersection between economics, policy and the environment, she has been involved in several projects in her previous communities, and is excited to bring this to Le Havre. With her project, she aims to facilitate discussion among students and the rest of the city’s population surrounding the expansion of the Le Havre cruise industry. She aims to do this through documentaries, newspaper articles, and collaboration with other organisations, field experts and the Town Hall.
