Automotive Expotrs November 2022

As the No. 1 sector in exports, the
automotive industry is responsible for 29,3
billion dollars in exports. This means that
about one-seventh of total Turkish exports
belong to the automotive sector. With
this magnitude, the automotive industry
provides employment opportunities to
300,000, 50,000 in the main industry and
250,000 in the supplier industry. When
the dealerships, logistics, authorized and
special services are added to these figures,
employment totals 500.000.
At present, the Automotive Industry has
a 13% share in Türkiye’s total exports. In
line with our future goals, the companies
that have invested in our country need to
increase their capacities and we also must
draw new main industry investments into
the country.
“Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA)
Eminent Service Award”
In addition, the Uludağ Automotive
Industry Exporters’ Association has been
recognized by the Turkish Grand National
Assembly for its contributions to social
responsibility projects; the Association’s
Technical and Vocational High School was
commended with the TBMM Eminent
Service Award.” To meet the potential
needs of the school in the period ahead,
the OİB Educational Foundation (OEV),
founded in 2011, has joined OİB members
to support and develop various projects
initiated by the Foundation. Contributions
to the various projects for schoolchildren
are steadily growing. While the role of the
automotive industry in Türkiye’s general
economy is steadily growing, to meet the
need of the sector for qualified human
resources, the board of directors of the
Uludağ Automotive Industry Exporters’
Association (OİB) executed and took on all
costs for the building of the “OİB Technical
and Vocational High School,” which it
has now transferred to the ownership
of the Treasury, with usufructuary rights
belonging to the Ministry of National
Education. The school started to operate
in the academic year 2010-2011; it
accepts students through the selection
and placement central exam that is
administered throughout the country.
Equipped with the latest technologies,
the school is an exemplary project and
provides 7 different curriculum programs.
The OİB Technical and Vocational High
School is a major educational complex
with physics, chemistry, and biology
laboratories that serve 720 students,
along with other facilities that feature 6
workshops, 24 classrooms, a gymnasium
for 720, a 300-capacity boarding facility,
a 511-capacity multi-purpose hall and
lodgings comprised of 4 apartments.
Exemplary in its collaboration with the
Automotive Industry, a “first” was achieved
when the OİB Technical and Vocational
High School was recognized as a “Green
Building.”
From exports to the exemplary position
of the school as the first and only project
of social responsibility in its field, the
automotive industry has signed its name
to many “firsts” and with its collaboration
with main and auxiliary industry
corporations, it has pushed the boundaries
of environmental awareness with a
new concept of the world. Completing
its transformation with the donations
collected for the social responsibility
project, “Back Window,” started by the
Automotive Industry Exporters’ Association
Educational Foundation and Ford Otosan,
the OİB Technical and Vocational High
School was recognized in December 2012
as the first public building in its field and
the first and only educational institution to
earn a Green Building Certificate.
The automotive industry is looking for
designs and projects...
The ideas, designs, and projects of the
automotive industry find their way
into a competition that is held every
year. OİB organizes “The Future of
Automotive Design Competition” with the
Turkish Ministry of Trade’s support and
under the Turkish Exporters Assembly
(TIM) coordination. The objective of
the competition is to encourage the
development of unique and innovative
designs for the automotive industry,
bring together the innovative project
suggestions of manufacturers and
exporters, and turn these projects into
partnerships.
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