Education
Hygiene Project for Primary Boarding Schools
The project aims to secure healthy environments for children at primary boarding schools. Spearheaded by three brands, VitrA, Artema and Eczacıbaşı Profesyonel, this social responsibility project is renovating the bathrooms and showers of Regional Primary Boarding School dormitories and school buildings with VitrA and Artema products. Within the Eczacıbaşı Group, companies and employees that are contributing to the success of the project include Eczacıbaşı Building Products, Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products, and Eczacıbaşı Volunteers. Partnering the project is the Ministry of Education, which is determining the neediest schools and ensuring they have the required plumbing infrastructure. The project has renovated the bathrooms and showers of 57 schools in 42 cities and provided healthy, high quality and hygienic educational environments to nearly 20 thousand students.
Selpak is organizing personal hygiene classes at primary schools all around Turkey. Between 2002 and 2022, more than 6 million students at primary schools in 60 cities have benefited this program.
The Eczacıbaşı Hygiene Project was the recipient of the International Public Relations Association's 2009 Golden World Award in Social Responsibility and an Honorable Mention in the associated Special United Nations’ Award competition. It also received two Honorable Mentions from the United States, one in the “Best Social Responsibility Project of Europe” category of the 2009 Stevie International Business Awards and the other in the “Community Relations” category of the PR News Platinum Awards.
Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı Foundation Music Scholarships
These scholarships enable outstanding young Turkish musicians to pursue graduate musical studies abroad. To date, the Foundation has provided financial support to 157 musicians studying instruments as well as orchestration, direction and composition.
Primary School Sponsorship
The Eczacıbaşı Group has built four primary schools for the Turkish public school system, to which it provides annual funding. Around 4200 students attend these schools.
Eczacıbaşı Sports School
The Eczacıbaşı Sports School teaches volleyball to young girls in the 6-12 age group.
Reproductive Health Hotline
In 2000, Eczacıbaşı Pharmaceuticals Marketing established a free, 24-hour reproductive health hotline (ALO-OKEY) with the Family Planning Association of Turkey. The aim of the hotline is to enhance public access to information about reproductive health.
Sports
The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club was founded in 1966 to introduce young people to sports and contribute to the development of sports in Turkey. In subsequent years, the club not only trained thousands of athletes, but it also played an important role in raising the quality of sports in Turkey to international levels. Today, The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club is focused exclusively on women's volleyball throughout the world.
The Eczacıbaşı Sports Club is home to the Eczacıbaşı Dynavit Women's Volleyball Team, the record-holder of Turkey's National Championships and first back-to-back Champion of the FIVB Women's Club World Championship (2015 and 2016). The team has won 28 National Championships, 9 National Cups and played in 12 European Cup Finals, winning the "European Cup Winner's Cup" in 1999. Winning its third straight Turkish Champions Cup title 2020, the team broke a new record by receiving as many as five titles recognizing player performance in the competition.
Over the years, the Eczacıbaşı Sports Club has trained countless women volleyball players at private high schools and universities. The club's "Future Spike" program, which it launched in 2016 in collaboration with the ES Volleyball Sports Club, aims to increase young girls' access to sports and encourage them to take up volleyball.
In 2018, the Eczacıbaşı Sports Club was awarded the International Olympic Committee's Women and Sports World Trophy for its success in international women's volleyball, for creating opportunities for thousands of young girls to play volleyball, and for striving to increase the presence of women in sports for over 50 tears.
Arts and Culture
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Eczacıbaşı Group is the founding sponsor of Turkey's first privately funded museum of modern art, to which it provided the initial investment and project management finance as well as the core collection of paintings. Istanbul Modern is committed to preserving and exhibiting Turkey's heritage of modern and contemporary art.
Using a combined chronological and thematic exhibition design of its permanent collection, Istanbul Modern showcases Turkish art through their foremost exponents. Additionally, the museum organizes retrospective exhibitions of Turkish modern masters and of internationally acclaimed artists. Istanbul Modern also organizes periodic exhibitions of photography, video and modern Turkish sculpture in addition to thematic film programs.
Since its foundation, the museum has hosted 8.5 million visitors and provided free art education to 850 thousand of children and young people.
Istanbul Modern's new building, situated at the museum's original location in Karaköy, in designed by Pritzker-winning architect Renzo Piano.
Istanbul Modern was included in The New York Times' 52 Places for Travelers to Visit in 2023 list. {{Cit[8] founded in 1973 on the initiative of Dr. Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı, and its direct patronage of festivals. In particular, the Eczacıbaşı Group's support of the Istanbul International Music Festival has contributed to its international prestige.
