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 NUR AKSAMIJA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
New York University Shanghai | Shanghai, China | Advancing SDG 16 & UNAI 9
" "Youth political participation is a key stepping stone to ensuring lasting global peace. The Millennium Fellowship offers a great platform for connecting with other young professionals who share similar values for the SDGs, education, and global connection. I am so excited to be joining such a wonderful cohort of students working towards positive growth and change worldwide!" "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Designing Inclusion: Stories to Action
Increasing youth participation has been a growing focus among many SDG-centered projects and efforts, yet many young professionals feel that much more progress is needed for meaningful inclusion. My project seeks to identify what is lacking from these spaces, by combining analytical research on the progress of the Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) agenda with interviews capturing individual students' personal experiences. By understanding the challenges facing globally-minded young professionals today, Stories to Actions end goal is to provide recommendations on how international organizations can better their policies toward youth inclusion.
About the Millennium Fellow
Nur Aksamija is a senior political science student at New York University, Shanghai. Raised as a Bosnian-American, she has always valued an international approach to her studies. She is most passionate about the intersections of international law, policy, and politics, particularly in the context of peace and conflict. Her work explores how these fields, and the tools they provide, can best be utilized and reformed to protect people. After graduation, Nur plans to pursue further studies in international law.
