Education
Tekfen Foundation provides unconditional educational grants to successful but financially needy students studying in Turkey and also to the children of Tekfen personnel who are high school or undergraduate university students in order to help support their education. To date, close to 3,000 students have graduated with the help of Tekfen Foundation. Every year the foundation provides scholarships to 600 students. In order that its scholarship recipients may embark upon their careers with a better-informed awareness of what it is that they want to do, the foundation also arranges mentoring for them at Tekfen Group companies.
By tradition, Tekfen Foundation hosts a “Tekfen Scholarship Recipients Gathering” every year to give students a chance to become better acquainted with Tekfen and to receive guidance on matters of concern to their future.
In 2019, Tekfen Foundation added to its support for classical music with the introduction of a music scholarship programme. The programme, whose aim is to help train talented musicians not just for the Tekfen Philharmonic but also for all orchestras in Turkey, provides students who want to pursue a career as a professional orchestra musician with the opportunity to continue their undergraduate education abroad.
Within the scope of the "Achievement Scholarship" conducted by Istanbul Technical University (ITU), a collaboration was established to provide scholarships to three students, jointly selected by ITU and the Tekfen Foundation, from the 2022-2023 academic year until their graduation.
In addition to its scholarship programs, the Tekfen Foundation also supports education through individual donations to schools. The Foundation covers the annual maintenance and repair needs of the Tekfen Foundation Special Education Application School, which was built for children with autism in Ceyhan Pamukeli and delivered to the Ministry of National Education in 2013. It also assists in providing training, seminars, and publications aimed at the professional development of teachers.
Having joined the Education Reform Initiative (ERG) in 2017 as a corporate sponsor, Tekfen Foundation continued to support the initiative’s activities in 2024. ERG is an independent and not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to come up with common-sense ways to contribute to a systemic transformation of education for the benefit of children and social development through sound evidence, constructive dialogue, and stakeholder engagement.
Tekfen Foundation also supports the Boğaziçi University Scientific Research Fund. A “Tekfen Foundation Academic Research Fund” set up within the Boğaziçi University Foundation is intended to generate earnings that will be used to help finance Boğaziçi University Scientific Research projects which have been identified by the Boğaziçi University Scientific Research Projects Commission.