Hyundai Motor Expands Healthy Seas Partnership to Türkiye with Conservation and Education Initiatives
Hyundai Motor and Healthy Seas Foundation expanded their five-year partnership to Türkiye, launching conservation and educational activities involving employees and students.
- 5 years
- over 50
- 40 kg
- 2021
What Happened
Hyundai Motor Company and the Healthy Seas Foundation announced the expansion of their five-year partnership to Türkiye, marked by an event at Hyundai Motor Türkiye's İzmit production facility and along the Black Sea coast. Over 50 participants, including employees, university students, and community members, took part in facility tours, corporate responsibility sessions, and a beach cleanup. The İzmit plant, which will start producing the new IONIQ 3 this year, hosted the educational portion of the event.
40 kg
Includes bottle caps, cigarette butts, plastic fragments, and other persistent marine pollutants.
“Türkiye has been an integral part of Hyundai's success story. It is home to our longest-serving production site outside Korea, and here we work every day with people and communities who play a key role in our journey. Hyundai Motor Türkiye is proud to join this global partnership with Healthy Seas. This collaboration combines ocean conservation and educational initiatives in a meaningful way and c”
“Over the past five years, we have demonstrated, together with Hyundai Motor Company, that long-term partnerships can make a real difference for our oceans and coastal communities. In Türkiye, we are taking this work into a new local context by bringing together education, awareness, and hands-on action with employees and students. What makes this collaboration valuable is the opportunity to connec”
Healthy Seas experts briefed participants on the partnership's five-year track record, including prevention education and the removal of abandoned fishing nets, known as 'ghost nets,' which persist for decades and damage marine ecosystems. Since 2021, Hyundai and Healthy Seas have collaborated globally to advance ocean conservation through education and awareness. The Türkiye expansion is part of Hyundai's 'Progress for Humanity' vision and its Creating Shared Value strategy.
Why this matters
This expansion strengthens Hyundai's corporate social responsibility in a key production region, combining ocean cleanup with education. It engages local communities, employees, and scholarship students, showcasing how corporate partnerships can drive environmental stewardship and shared value.
Terms in This Story
- Ghost nets
- Abandoned fishing nets that continue to trap and kill marine life for decades.
- CSV
- Creating Shared Value, a strategy where companies generate economic value while addressing social or environmental needs.
- Healthy Seas Foundation
- An international organization focused on marine conservation, including cleanup and prevention of ocean waste.
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