Founded in 1994, Gedik Education Foundation has been developing in the fields of education, social responsibility and culture and arts renewing and developing its work in line with the needs is sustaining.
Halil Kaya Gedik, the founder of the Gedik Education Foundation, was an industrialist who loved education. He was the name that brought welding science to Turkish industry. Today, our founder Halil Kaya Gedik's principle of “Giving back to the system called life, being useful to the system” constitutes the philosophy of Gedik Education Foundation..
This philosophy guides us in all our activities to contribute to the development of our country. Founded in 1994, our foundation has been renewing and developing its activities in the fields of education, social responsibility and culture and arts in line with the developing needs since then.
What Are We Doing?
We raise competent young people with Istanbul Gedik University and Gedik Vocational School. With Gedik Arts, we help the philharmonic and chamber music to become widespread in our country, and we help Turkish composers and their works We contribute to recognition.
Within the International Institute of Welding (IIW), which is a member of academics and representatives of non-profit organizations interested in welding science in the world, we present the Halil Kaya Gedik Special Award every year to names who have contributed to welding science with innovative products and methodologies in the world and support their work.
We believe in the importance of training to empower women in difficult and uncertain times, to support their participation in business life, to give them a profession and to help them climb the career ladder faster and more easily. In this context, we offer women free welding We provide trainings, enable them to obtain professional certificates and create job opportunities. We carry out activities under the umbrella of BUFAM to bring children with special needs into life through sports.
New Projects
Young people, women and individuals with special needs face inequalities in participation in economic and social life. As Gedik Education Foundation, we strive for a prosperous society where all individuals enjoy equal rights through education, production and sharing.
By organizing trainings in areas that society needs, empowering women in working life, conducting social activities in line with the needs of individuals with special needs, Gedik Art We consider it our duty to carry out all kinds of activities that will contribute to society and therefore to human beings by conducting studies in different fields of art within the organization.
In this context, in the new period, with the slogan GEVBirlikte artificial intelligence, brain drain and sustainability in Turkey and where we discuss the most discussed topics in the world with experts IMPACT MEETINGS are organized in times of difficult financial conditions In the new era of downsizing, the importance of financial literacy has increased. new projects such as Financial Literacy Trainings with the idea of we're putting it into operation.