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 RIJUL MALIK, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Punjab Engineering College | Chandigarh, India | Advancing SDG 4, SDG 8 & UNAI 3

" The Millennium Fellowship aligns with my vision, supports my thought process, and offers a global stage to voice ideas that empower communities through entrepreneurship, innovation, and education. I excitedly look forward on to how I excel upto the best of my capability through the fellowship "
Millennium Fellowship Project: VichaarVerse
I, along with a batchmate of mine conceptualized VichaarVerse after experiencing a gradual interest in peers around us about pursuing entrepreneurship, with particular interest on how the policies in the region were focused on student entrepreneurs. We felt a lack of support resources and awareness programs to dive in deep into this sphere. Peers around, including us could not figure out how and what to proceed with after the ideation stage. We had no roadmap on how to develop the thought, take it to the market stage, reframe it or not, when to execute etc. Acknowledging this gap, we decided to take a step in this direction to create awareness programs, create friendly resources on to how can become an entrepreneur, how is the entrepreneurial ecosystem around us such that someone with no prerequisite knowledge may pursue this domain. Two of us started with a content creation page. Steadily, we made basic knowledge resources, spoke to the entrepreneurs around, interviewed them and took their say on relatable aspects driving the ecosystem ahead. We now have a 500+ following, with 190K+ global impressions. Our next step remains to launching bootcamp programs, expanding our campaigns to schools and colleges around us.
About the Millennium Fellow
Rijul Malik is an aspiring entrepreneur and finance enthusiast with a strong passion for community-driven projects, startups, and related strategic analytics. Through self-driven learning, he has built impactful initiatives like VichaarVerse, a platform dedicated to exploring entrepreneurship and innovation. Rijul actively organizes large-scale, community-led events, forges connections with industry leaders, and creates growth opportunities for peers. Driven, curious, and vision-oriented, he aspires to be a transformative force, advocating for entrepreneurship and fostering global educational competency in the field for all.











