UN headquarters, Switzerland
UN headquarters, Switzerland Forty UCL undergraduate students have been chosen as Millennium Fellows 2023-24, joining a global initiative designed to help achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), This is the most Fellows of any UK university for the fourth year running and the highest across Europe. Run by the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI), the Millennium Fellowship Scheme is an international leadership development programme through which undergraduate students help to further the SDGs in their communities. More than 44,000 students from around over 3,000 campuses worldwide applied to join the Class of 2022, with 4,000 fellows chosen to take part. Professor Geraint Rees, UCL Vice Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement) said: "I am delighted that so many of our students have been successful in being offered this great opportunity. UCL has a distinguished track record of social impact, and being awarded the largest number of Fellowships awarded to any UK university is an astonishing achievement. The continued success of our students is a testament to the individual and collective commitment of our undergraduate students to make a positive impact, both locally and globally." Simon Knowles, UCL's Head of Coordination (SDGs) said: "The repeated success of our students is testament to the importance the student community place on the SDGs and their enthusiasm for addressing them." The selective Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program that convenes, challenges, and celebrates student leadership to help achieve UN goals.
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