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 AMPRA TSELA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Häme University of Applied Sciences | Hämeenlinna, Finland | Advancing SDG 6 & UNAI 9
" In life, the events towards a social impact we do and contribute towards can be tangent to the paths we carve. To be a Millennium Fellow and to do this current work, will help me cultivate the antecedent pieces and informational flows, which lead into such impactful events, and drive them steadily into my life. The material, resources and expertise are of a magnitude capable of impacting social circles beyond those of just the fellows, which is what produces great excitement in me. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Right-to-Know H2O
This project of student teams from Pace University in New York and Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) in Finland. We are proposing a partnership we believe is unique in MCN history – teams from schools 4,000 miles apart applying separately but collaborating intensively on a bilateral model to address an urgent, inherent principle of SD6: the right to safe water requires the right to know water is safe. We will build upon the work of Pace’s 2024 team which found that the combined population of the world’s 25,000 higher education institutions – an estimated 270 million water users -- would place it fourth on the list of the world’s most populous nations. This statistic alone offers a powerful statement about the need for schools in and out of the MCN network to increase water awareness and influence global policy. Our joint deliverable will be an information and education model that can promptly inform water users of the quality of their water, with a timeline that will include immediately achievable goals, and projected technical innovations. We believe this model will apply not only to colleges and universities, but gain international attention, including at the United Nations itself.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ampra Tsela is an enthusiastic yet collected student with great interest in creating social impact. She was born in Lushnje Albania and raised in the Greek island Samos. She studied Psychology with Neuropsychology at Prifysgol Bangor University of Wales, nevertheless made a pivotal turn in her endeavors, by enrolling in the Construction Engineering degree at Häme University of Applied Sciences in Hämeenlinna Finland. Ampra is interested in solving puzzles and delighted when her actions prove helpful. She dreams that through her work she can learn about practices, behaviors and systems, which she can disseminate to help societies coexist and collaborate on fertile and equitable grounds.
