2017
Sustainability Report
Sustainability Report
We realize long-term social responsibility projects that support social development in regards to sports, education and culture & art. We take into account the requirements and expectations of the local community and our stakeholders while realizing the projects. Social responsibility projects are carried out by the Corporate Communication Directorate based on Tofaş Donation and Sponsorship Policy.
Tofaş Sports Club that was founded with the name Tofaş SAS in Bursa Tofaş Factory in 1974 continues to operate in branches including basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis, water polo and bridge. The club brought the first European Cup Final and the first Turkey Championships, Presidency Cup Championship, Turkey Cup Championship and Schools Basketball World Championship to Bursa in Basketball branch. Tofaş Basketball Team continues to compete in ULEB EuroCup and Super League in 2017-2018 season. Tofaş Sports Club brings new talents in Turkish sport with ongoing investments in youth teams and youth-team focused model.
Tofaş plays the matches it hosts in Nilüfer Tofaş Sports Hall in Bursa. Matches played with high number of audience contribute to the social life of Bursa citizens.
New Generation Tofaş Project aims to provide equal opportunities to children for accessing to sports and to support them in gaining a culture and perspective that will help them to be successful in all aspects of life beyond sports training. New Generation Tofaş is a training and practice model in the triangle of a coach, family and the child for a generation that embrace a true sports culture in which every child can play basketball under the same opportunities in their neighborhoods. Through New Generation Tofaş Project, we reached to 1,000 children via 8 basketball schools in 2017. 9 teams formed with children selected to youth team continue their trainings in Mustafa V. Koç Sports Complex.
For the sustainability of sportive activities, every week, 34 trainers that are interns in this project receive trainings on how to make theoretical and practically active trainings. Other areas of activity include an e‑learning system established in order to train families and trainers in these regions, street tournaments organized for developing a public-wide basketball culture, and science and creative drama workshops to support social intelligence development of children.
Mustafa V. Koç Sports Complex which started functioning in 2016 offers service not only to Tofaş personnel, but amateur sports clubs and athletes in Bursa as well. 5,800 m2 complex includes a sports hall with three basketball courts, training center and fully-equipped athlete rehabilitation center that covers all kind of physiotherapy requirements.
Our goal for Fiat Laboratories which started functioning with the integration of Koç Holding’s project “Vocational High Schools: A Crucial Matter for the Country” is to train technical workforce having a command of new technology and to make use of this power in Turkish automotive industry. We work in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Directorate General for Vocational and Technical Education; and contribute to development of motor vehicle technology areas in industrial technical education schools and establishments. Fiat Laboratory launched for the first time in 2006 in Şişli Industrial Vocational High School celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2017.
Every school within Fiat Laboratories received 11 Fiat Egea based on “Vocational Education” program in order to help students follow new technologies more closely and receive education through updated tools in 2017.
As of 2017, the number of students and teachers in Fiat Laboratories has become 2,000. In 2017, 213 students were graduated from Fiat Laboratories. Within 2016‑2017 European Union Project, Fiat Laboratory students and teachers had the opportunity to have training in European countries and to have international experience by working in services in these countries.
Teachers working in Fiat Laboratories receive annual trainings about technical, behavioral and social responsibility trainings that include up to date technologies in regards to in-service education. Until now, 400 vocational high school teachers benefited from In-Service Education Program whose 11th version was organized in 2017.
Based on the “Vocational High Schools: A Crucial Matter for the Country” project, student who are studying at Fiat Laboratories started to receive scholarship from Vehbi Koç Foundation; 311 students received scholarship in 2017.
Tofaş Science High School opened with the cooperation of Demirtaş Organized Industrial Zone (DOSAB) and Tofaş which started education in 2014‑2015 school year ranked first among favorite schools in Bursa for 2016‑2017 school year. In 2017, “Innovation Workshop” which has been opened in Tofaş Science High School with the support of different departments at Tofaş created an environment where students are able to learn projecting processes via innovative methods through experience and have the opportunity to discover their own potentials. Through this Innovation Workshop, we aim to train qualified young people who would steer the fields of automotive and engineering and shape the future.
Vocational Education Support Program has been initiated to bring technical labor force that masters new technologies in automotive industry to the sector. 57 Fiat Egea model vehicles were donated to 44 universities and 13 vocational high schools in 2007 to be used in workshop studies in order to provide students an opportunity to learn research‑development steps and operating principles of a vehicle through experience.
Tofaş Bursa Museum of Anatolian Cars is the one and only Anatolian car museum, founded with the intent of protecting automotive heritage in Anatolia. We renovated and converted a land of 17,000 m2, located in Umurbey Neighborhood that includes an old filature, Umurbey Historical Turkish Bath and old Turkish house near the Turkish bath into a museum. Tofaş Museum of Anatolian Cars that has opened its doors in 2002, welcomed almost 600,000 visitors until now.
Historical Umurbey Turkish bath giving a service as Art Gallery within the boundaries of Tofaş Museum of Anatolian Cars, hosted a total of 6 temporary exhibitions. The number of visitors to “Scale knob: Balances, Weights, Measuring Devices” exhibition launched in 2016 and that has the footprints of social and commercial life from past to present is over 70,000.
Since 2005, we have been one of main sponsors of ancient city in Hierapolis Antique City in Pamukkale which is one of Turkey’s five biggest ancient city ruins and listed as the UNESCO’s World Heritage in 1988. Excavation works carried out under the control of Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Governorship of Denizli continued in 2017 as well.
An international team with almost 70 people including archaeologist, architectures, restorators and specialists, primarily from Italy and Turkey, takes charge at Hierapolis excavations. Within the scope of the excavations, renovation of Antique Theater hall, one of the best examples among Roman theatres that was constructed almost 1,800 years ago, has been completed. Hierapolis Antic Theatre, the only antic theatre in Turkey, the stage building of which has been renovated, was opened for arts and culture events with capacity of 12,000 people after renovation. We continue to support Hierapolis excavations through excavation and restoration works in Plutonium that was revealed in the ancient city.
