Our Educational Philosophy

As stated in the EGET Foundation Charter, our most important goal is to "provide scholarships to students who face economic difficulties in pursuing their education due to financial constraints, thus enabling them to continue their studies without interruption."

At the EGET Foundation, we believe that the change our country needs can only be achieved with young people empowered by education and equipped with science and art. Therefore, we have made it our goal to provide our youth with the highest level of financial support, to the best of our ability, so that they can receive the best possible education and bring our country to its rightful place in the modern civilization.

According to OECD data from 2020, the demand for higher education in Turkey has increased more than in other OECD countries in the last 10 years. However, while 57% of young people are able to enroll in an undergraduate program, only half of these students are expected to complete their studies. One of the most fundamental factors preventing students from completing their studies is their financial difficulties. Even when young people are accepted into higher education programs, they are unable to meet even their most basic needs due to financial difficulties and are forced to drop out of their studies.

Turkey also has the highest rate of children experiencing severe material deprivation among European countries. According to Eurostat data from 2019, approximately 35% of children in Turkey grow up in severe material deprivation. Considering that child poverty carries the risk of persisting throughout life, lack of access to education poses an even greater danger for today's children. Young people who cannot continue their higher education are forced to work in less skilled jobs; they face unemployment more frequently and earn lower incomes. The transmission of educational opportunity deprivation from generation to generation is another danger. These dangers can only be overcome by ensuring equal opportunities in education and primarily providing financial support to young people pursuing education.

The EGET Foundation believes that we must not allow our young people to become individuals who have not received sufficient education and have not completed their cultural development. We believe that the negative consequences of the social and economic exclusion of children from lower-income families will, over time, harm the entire country.

We want to believe that our state officials, the leaders of civil society organizations, and each and every one of us will show the necessary attention to this wound, which is deepening day by day in our country, as soon as possible.

Our Views on Ecological Agriculture

Ecological agriculture is a form of agriculture that protects the soil, water, and air; does not use chemicals or genetic engineering; and applies cultivation techniques that are in harmony with nature. In 2009, the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), supported by the United Nations, published a report based on data obtained from thousands of research projects and case studies conducted worldwide by the world's top 400 independent research companies. While only half of the report was written, biotechnology/GMO companies withdrew from the study; Because they realized that the report would not endorse genetic modification in the products and that its findings and opinions would threaten their business interests and the entire chemical industry's approach to agriculture. The organization's report explicitly recommended that ecological farming was the only solution for the current world population to hear.

We conduct our agricultural practices based on scientific data; in a completely nature-respecting manner; without using any chemicals that would harm the soil, water, or air; and within the framework of good agricultural practices and organic farming, using new methods developed by closely monitoring developments in this field and listening to what the soil tells us.

The EGET Foundation's first agricultural project, as you can read in detail on the 'EGET Foundation Economic Enterprise' page, was the reclamation of a 22,000 m² plot of land in Armutçuk neighborhood of Muğla province and the transplantation of truffle-bearing oak saplings purchased from the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Truffle Research and Application Center to cultivate truffles. Following these plantings, lavender seedlings, which have a truffle-promoting effect, were transplanted among the oak saplings. Thus, during the five-year period in which truffles are expected to develop, lavender becomes a second income-generating product for our foundation's economic enterprise.

Our Perspective on Geriatrics

While our foundation's main purpose is to provide educational scholarships, another aim is to conduct research that will contribute to the science of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Geriatrics and gerontology aim to help middle-aged and older people age healthily by meeting not only their medical needs but also their psychological and social needs.