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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.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT MONA RICOUX, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

Sciences Po | Le Havre, France | Advancing SDG 11, SDG 4 & UNAI 6

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" I believe that the most powerful solutions to community challenges come from within the community itself. The Millennium Fellowship offers an unparalleled opportunity to amplify these efforts, creating meaningful impact on a larger scale by collaborating with passionate, like-minded change makers, dedicated to the greater good. "

Millennium Fellowship Project: The CommuniTea Project

The CommuniTea is a community-building initiative designed to promote student well-being, meaningful connection, and collaborative learning through the simple but powerful act of sharing tea. Built around weekly study cafés and cultural tea gatherings, the project creates a warm, inclusive environment where students can focus, recharge, and support one another academically and emotionally. By blending tea culture with intentional community-making, the project advances key Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), and SDG 11 (Sustainable Communities). Through calm study spaces, intercultural exchanges, and partnerships - including participation in fundraising events - the CommuniTea Project fosters belonging, dialogue, and collective care on campus. Rooted in the idea that small, consistent acts of hospitality can spark meaningful social impact, the project uses tea as a medium to cultivate connection, reduce stress, and strengthen the social fabric of the student community.

About the Millennium Fellow

Mona Ricoux is a dynamic and global-minded political and social sciences student pursuing their studies at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Born in China, they have lived in Turkey and Hungary, reside in Germany, and are currently based in Le Havre, France - experiences that have shaped them as a truly cosmopolitan individual. A committed advocate for social justice, queer rights and women's rights, they have contributed to numerous initiatives and grassroots movements, demonstrating both talent and vision for mobilising communities. Drawing on their multicultural background and passion for equitable change, they aspire to work in a field where they can advance these causes on a global scale and meaningfully contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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