Esteemed Stakeholders,
The educational scholarships that Mr. İbrahim Çeçen, IC Holding Chairman, started to provide personally
in 1984, started to meet with students in a more institutionalized structure with the establishment of the
IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation in 2004. Our foundation continues its activities in the fields of education,
health, sports and cultural development.
As a foundation, we provide non-refundable education scholarships to successful university students in need. After 18 years, the number of students we have supported with education scholarships has exceeded 12,000. In addition to our education scholarships, health scholarships and social assistance are among the permanent social support offered by our Foundation. Moreover, we are raising the youth of the future in the primary schools we have built in Ağrı, Van, Erzincan and Ankara. On the other hand, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, which we commissioned and donated to the state in 2007, and Ağrı Nezahat Çeçen Dormitory for Girls, which is home to 400 students and was donated to the state in 2020, are among our sources of great pride.
Although Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University is entirely donated to the state, it is the first “Foundation-Supported State University” in our country and continues to grow. In addition to undergraduate scholarship support to the students of our university, offering academic development seminars, academic incentive awards, awards to young people and their trainers who excel in sports,
literature and arts, Erasmus support and internship programs, support for congresses, seminars and symposiums, grant support for local projects through student clubs, and corporate social responsibility projects that will contribute to the socio-economic development of Ağrı province under the locomotive of the foundation, based on private sector / university / civil society cooperation, are among the permanent duties of our foundation Following our education scholarships, our top priority is to prepare our scholarship recipients for life. We believe that trainings that will be useful in their professional and private lives are as important as their education. Therefore, we organize courses, panels, interviews and seminars in many fields from entrepreneurship to foreign language education, from career counseling to first aid, from stress management to diction. It is the most valuable goal of our Foundation to help young people internalize the nature of rights-based solidarity and volunteerism in our scholarship meetings spread throughout the academic year. For this purpose, the “Community Service Principle”, which is one of the IC Foundation’s
Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, which was established in 2007 in Ağrı, one of the frontier provinces of our country, and honorably bears the name of İbrahim Çeçen, a philanthropist businessman who is a volunteer for education, is a higher education institution that prioritizes raising qualified young people who will take part in the future of our country.
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