Starting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic with the “Cumhuriyetle GÜÇLÜ100” labels applied to the trucks and buses it produces, Mercedes-Benz Türk successfully continues its corporate social benefit programs for the education of young people.
Mercedes-Benz Türk, which has made valuable contributions to Turkey's social and economic future since it started its activities in 1967, has been successfully maintaining various corporate social benefit programs for the education of young people for many years. The company, which started to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic with the “Cumhuriyetle GÜÇLÜ100” labels applied to the trucks and buses it produces, co-organizes many corporate social benefit programs in the fields of sports, culture-arts and sustainable environment as well as education. zamcontinues to run instantly.
In line with the principle of "Equal Opportunity", the company, which carries out long-term projects for young people in the field of education, started the "Our EML, the Star of the Future" program, carried out in cooperation with Mercedes-Benz Türk dealers and authorized services and the Ministry of National Education in 2014. Within the scope of the program, in which the electromechanical laboratories of Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools are renewed, it is aimed to train well-equipped personnel for the automotive sector, where there is a shortage of qualified personnel. Within the scope of the program, where technical and vocational education students gain more experience at Mercedes-Benz Laboratories (MBL), a total of 32 schools' laboratories have been renovated so far. While more than 3.000 students received training at Mercedes-Benz Laboratories, more than 1.300 students got internships and 204 graduates started work at Mercedes-Benz Türk dealers.
The “Every Girl is a Star” program, which Mercedes-Benz Türk launched in 17 by supporting 200 girls in 2004 provinces with the Association for Supporting Contemporary Life (ÇYDD), continues to grow stronger in 2023 as well. In the program, which was initiated with the aim of enabling women in Turkey to work with men in every field with equal social and economic conditions, 250 female students, 1.000 of whom are university students, receive educational scholarships from Mercedes-Benz Türk every year. In addition to educational scholarships, students also participate in various programs designed for their personal and professional development.
The company, which established the “Mercedes-Benz Türk ÇYDD Education House” in 2015 in Aksaray, where the truck factory is located, in order to support the education of the children of the region, provides trainings with the voluntary support of its employees who graduated from different and distinguished universities in Turkey.
Mercedes-Benz Türk, which has been carrying out the "Stars of Engineering" program for the education of young people with the Boğaziçi University Foundation since 2018, contributes to the employment of female engineers by supporting successful female engineering students.
In addition to sports and athletes
Standing out with the support it gives to sports and athletes in addition to education, the company also carries out important studies in this field. Being the Main Sponsor of the Turkish Football National Team in 1996, Mercedes-Benz Türk has undertaken one of the longest and most consistent sponsorship efforts ever realized in Turkey.
Apart from the Turkish Football National Team, Mercedes-Benz Türk also carries out the official transportation sponsorship of the Turkish Handball Women's and Men's National Teams and the Amputee Football National Team.