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 PHEBE GOEDHART, 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
Phebe Goedhart is a student at SciencesPo Le Havre, undergoing an education in political sciences with an emphasis on Asia. She is particularly interested in the ecological challenges we face today and the incorporation of the need and perspectives of individuals that make up the society facing the climate crisis. Already having faced this debate in the development of ecological agriculture from the perspective of her Dutch hometown, she intends to further pursue the active participation of local citizens in her project in Le Havre, aiming to connect environmental policy with the needs of those primarily affected.
