ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT AVANTIKA AJIT KOUSHIK, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Azim Premji University Bengaluru | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 11 & UNAI 6
" A beautiful and sustainable environment has been at the core of my childhood experience. So when I grew older and realized that such ecosystems are endangered all over the world by the basic everyday plastic waste we consume, I knew I had to step up. With the help of the Millennium Fellowship and its network of like minded individuals, I want to help build a system that encourages us to minimize our unsustainable consumption and preserve the beautiful natural environment surrounding us. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Sustainability Initiatives @APU
Our project is an initiative to replace plastic packaged food items from our cafeterias on campus with sustainably packaged items. This initiative is to essentially reduce packaging plastic waste generated on our campus, and also spread awareness about the harmful effects of plastic on our environment, and the importance of sustainable packaging.
About the Millennium Fellow
Avantika Koushik is a 3rd year Social Sciences major at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. Her empathy and passion for environmental sustainability stems from her upbringing in the Western Ghats. Through her initiative, Avantika hopes to instill the value and importance of sustainability within her community, and also establish an efficient environmentally sustainable system for her campus to implement for years to come. After her Social Sciences degree, Avantika hopes to pursue a masters in Public Policy.
