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 EMMA MARIA CLAUSS, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Central European University | Vienna, Austria | Advancing SDG 5 & UNAI 8
" My passion lies in creating equal opportunities for children to enjoy and grow in public spaces. When girls are given visibility and encouragement from a young age, they gain the confidence to take up space and pursue their dreams. Being part of this project means helping children—especially young girls—see that they belong everywhere, including our parks and sports fields. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: EmpowerEd Girls
My project focuses on promoting SDG 5 by empowering young girls in Vienna’s 10th district, where public spaces are strongly male-dominated. Through a self-assertion workshop designed for students at HTL10, I taught participants how to use posture, voice, eye contact, and physical presence to understand and protect their personal boundaries. The workshop was interactive, confidence-building, and aimed at helping girls recognize their own strength. I prepared thoroughly by completing a women-led self-defense course, so that I could shape a workshop that is safe, playful, and genuinely empowering. To extend the scope of the project I created a brochure that schools can use to replicate the workshop, which I will distribute in other schools in the area.
About the Millennium Fellow
Emma Clauss is a driven young PPE-Bachelor student. After growing up in Ljubljana, Rome and Berlin, she feels at home in Europe and continued crafting her life around different locations on the continent. After graduating high school, Emma took to Western France for volunteering with the European Solidarity Corps. Throughout her service, she lived in an international commune, animating workcamps and helping out at the local food distribution service. Afterwards Emma decided to move to Vienna for her studies. Here she enjoys a second home away from home, broadening her horizon and launching her very own first philanthropic projects.
