ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SOFIA MANCINI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
Central European University | Vienna, Austria | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 10 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because I believe the first quality of a leader should be an eagerness to learn, and I want to learn from and let myself be inspired by other young people who are making a positive impact in the world. I think that through connection with others, my actions would gain effectiveness and direction, allowing them to truly reach people’s lives. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: ще студентка (“still a student”)
In my home region in rural Italy there are many young Ukrainian refugees who want to continue their education, but this is not always easy due to bureaucratic difficulties.
My project this gap by creating detailed, specific, and accessible online resources
outlining how a Ukrainian student in the Umbria region can continue their education
wherever they left off, and by
engaging directly with students in the town middle school.
The projects consists of two parts, a website and a series of workshops.
The website is organized in sections focusing on each grade and is to provide
Ukrainian-language explanations of the relevant bureaucracy, including translated
sample forms. It is also to aggregate opportunities and information sources at the
local, national, and international level.
The workshops will happen in one of the town’s middle schools. Their aim is to help
new students navigate the stratified school system: this is because high school choice
strongly affects a person’s future possibilities in Italy, yet teenagers often choose
without knowing all their options and under a great amount of peer pressure.
About the Millennium Fellow
Sofia Mancini is a Philosophy, Politics and Economics student at Central European University specialising in Economics and Political Science. She is passionate about rural development and education, and particularly about alleviating the inequality of opportunities that exists between urban and rural regions in Italy, where she comes from. Her international experience at CEU has inspired her to focus on how urban-rural inequality affects refugees in particular.
