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 APOORV RAVI SHANKER THAKUR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Delhi Technological University | New Delhi, India | Advancing SDG 2, SDG 13 & UNAI 1
" Empathy and determination, guided by a commitment to social well-being, drive my initiatives and my work. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will allow me to strengthen these qualities through meaningful collaboration. The insights and skills I gain from the Fellowship will help make my efforts in mental health advocacy and overall community welfare more impactful and aligned with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am eager to expand my capacity to design inclusive solutions and foster environments where every individual has access to the resources they need to thrive. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Project Milan
Project Milan is a sustainability-driven initiative focused on promoting aquaponics, an innovative farming method that combines fish and plant cultivation in a closed-loop system while using significantly less water than traditional agriculture. The project aims to enhance food security, reduce resource consumption, and foster environmental awareness through practical demonstrations, affordable DIY kits, and hands-on educational workshops. Between August and December 2025, the initiative will work on establishing functional aquaponics units within the DTU campus, conducting regular educational sessions for students and community members, distributing DIY aquaponics kits to households, cafés, and small businesses, achieving measurable reductions in water usage at pilot sites, and building partnerships with local organizations and businesses to expand its reach. Progress will be tracked by the number of installations completed, workshops delivered, community members engaged, and the percentage decrease in water consumption recorded at operational sites.
About the Millennium Fellow
Apoorv Ravi Shanker Thakur is a passionate and socially conscious pre-final year student pursuing a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering at Delhi Technological University. He was born in Delhi, resides in Mumbai, and has always been committed to driving meaningful change in his community. For as long as he could remember, Apoorv has been dedicated to causes such as education, community welfare, and mental health advocacy. This drive has inspired his current work towards establishing accessible mental health facilities in his college and his continued involvement in initiatives for underprivileged communities. Throughout his college years, he has actively participated in socially impactful projects, and through his leadership, he plans to expand these efforts in the future. Apoorv aspires to work in a field where he can strengthen these advocacies and contribute to the advancement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
