Hitachi Astemo "Effective Education Equal Future" Project For Female Students From Turkey

Turkey Factory of Hitachi Astemo, which is a global automotive technology company employing 90,000 people in approximately 140 facilities in 27 countries, continues to append a signature to the meaningful works from each other at the point of providing contribution to society.

Hitachi Astemo Turkey Factory continues its social responsibility projects without slowing down. The company has appended a signature to the 'Effective Education Equal Future' project, which is a continuation of the 'My Profession is My Future' project, for the purpose of directing girls to vocational education and becoming stronger in business and social life.

It is targeted to provide professional development to the female students within the scope of the project that will be realized in cooperation with Ali Osman Sönmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School.

Elif Akça, Hitachi Astemo Turkey Human Resources and Communications Manager, who spoke at the signing ceremony of the project, said that they have appended a signature to very serious works at the point of providing contribution to the society. Akça said that “we implemented our 'Effective Education, Equal Future' project to focus on Social Gender Equality that is one of our 3 major social responsibility projects and realize our target for the girls to reach quality education opportunities in this year. We will be in cooperation with Ali Osman Sönmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School in our new project, which we set out with the slogan of ‘Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Strong Women Will Grow Up With This Training Program’” by stating that they take care of making works within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Principles, of which they are a signatory.

'Machinery Department Girls' class will be created

Akça, who stated that they will create 'Hitachi Astemo Turkey Machinery Division Girls' Class' for the purpose of providing professional development to the female students at Ali Osman Sönmez Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School within the scope of project, noted that the students will graduate strongly at the end of their high school education, they will graduate with all the technical information about the profession, they will graduate after completing the certificates of all technical devices that they can use in the field of production and they will graduate in all human subjects in some way.

Akça said that “we will coach them in their senior year on this issue as well. Our students will be trained as professionals with all the competencies sought in the sector in the 12th grade, by stating that the students will be able to continue to university at the end of the 4th year if they want”.