At ING Türkiye, we believe that it is vital to shape the workforce of the future today. We aim to contribute to equal opportunities in education and increase digital capabilities by implementing various projects to help young people look to the future with confidence.
Digital Teachers
We are of the opinion that education is one of the key areas that will drive Türkiye's digital transformation. Therefore, we launched the Digital Teachers project in 2020 in cooperation with the Habitat Association and Middle East Technical University. The project is centered around digitalization, which forms the backbone of our strategy, with teachers at its focus.
We found in our workshops that teachers would most like to improve themselves in digital literacy in order to communicate more effectively with their students and to increase the effectiveness of the education they provide by using digital tools. Since digitalization plays an essential role in ING's strategy, we aimed to transfer our know-how to them.
Our project seeks to help teachers step into the digitalized world, acquire digital literacy skills that they can use in face-to-face and distance education, transfer their skills to primary and secondary school students, and ensure that teachers from different regions have equal digital competence. Thus, we aim for teachers and students to become a part of the digital transformation, and ultimately contribute to the digital transformation process in Türkiye ourselves.
Within the scope of the ongoing project, we have trained 10 thousand teachers from all corners of Türkiye since 2020 and indirectly reached about 250 thousand students. We continue to support teachers with our effective and up-to-date training program in a hybrid model with online and face-to-face trainings.
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Our Orange Schools
In line with our responsible banking approach, we believe that community investments that touch the lives of children are as critical as economic investments. We continue to support communities with our mission of contributing to easier access to quality education.
ING Türkiye -Turkish Education Foundation Kindergarten: As an organization that places supporting equal opportunities in education at the center of its community investments for the sustainable development of our country and a more equitable future, we opened the ING Türkiye - TEV Kindergarten, which we built in Kahramanmaraş in cooperation with the Turkish Education Foundation (TEV), in February 2025. The kindergarten, which also serves to contribute to the recovery of the region, has a capacity of nearly 100 students.
Dulkadiroğlu Karacasu Primary School: In 2016, with the support of the Ministry of National Education and UNICEF Türkiye, we initiated a project to refurbish the Kahramanmaraş Dulkadiroğlu Karacasu Primary School. The school was renovated with the contributions of our employees, the ING Group and Kahramanmaraş Provincial Directorate of National Education.
Harlısu Primary School: In 2017, we renovated the Harlısu Primary School in the district of Arsuz of the Hatay province with the help of our employees. We continue to provide books, stationery, clothes and shoes to the students of the school, whose needs for transportation, electricity, heating and communication infrastructure, as well as physical deficiencies, we have already addressed.
Ağrı Günbuldu Primary School: Inspired by the story of Ramazan Taşdemir, who lost both of his hands while trying to save a bird in the village of Günbuldu in Ağrı, we extended our community investments focusing on education and gender equality to Günbuldu Village. We first started to meet the various needs of the primary and secondary school in the village and in 2017, we helped to build a computer lab at Günbuldu Secondary School. While the support and donations made by our bank and employee volunteers continued, in July 2018, in cooperation with the Ağrı Provincial Directorate of National Education, we began the official procedures for the construction of a new primary school, including a kindergarten class, in Günbuldu Village. In April 2019, the new Ağrı Günbuldu Primary School welcomed its students with four classrooms, one kindergarten, one computer lab and one science lab.
You can watch our videos below to learn more about our Orange Schools.
- Click here to watch our ING Türkiye - Turkish Education Foundation Kindergarten opening video.
- Click here to watch our ''Both girls and boys can do it'' video.
- Click here to watch our "Your dreams are enough" video.
Scholarships
We aim to support equal opportunities in education through scholarships.
To this end, we support Koç University's Anatolian Scholarship Program and Bilkent University's Scholarship Program for Girls.
Furthermore, in line with our commitment to foster gender equality, we contribute to the education of female engineering students with the ING Equal Future Fund, established through a scholarship fund agreement signed with the Turkish Education Foundation (TEV).
Orange Support for Business Life
We opened a co-working space called Kahramanmaraş Orange Office as part of our Orange Support to Business Life project implemented in cooperation with the Habitat Association in order to contribute to the recovery of Kahramanmaraş after the earthquake. Entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs and students who were affected by the earthquake and who have no place to work can benefit from the co-working space located in the ING Türkiye Kahramanmaraş Operations and Call Center building.
In the office, the Habitat Association also conducts training and capacity-building programs related to the business world and entrepreneurship.
Orange Support for Women Entrepreneurs
ING Türkiye, in cooperation with KAGIDER, has launched the Orange Support for Women Entrepreneurs project to contribute to the recovery of Kahramanmaraş and support women entrepreneurs in the region. The physical trainings of the project are held at the Kahramanmaraş Orange Office. The project, aimed at women producers, entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs affected by the earthquake, is designed to enable women to participate in the manufacturing process with training and mentoring assistance and to promote social empowerment.