Education

Gülseren Özdemir Special Education Practice School

“Gülseren Özdemir Special Education Practice School” was built by the Limak Foundation in order to ensure that children with mental and physical disabilities with special education needs have equal opportunities in the society and the school had an opening a ceremony in November 5, 2018 which was attended by the President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the First Lady Emine Erdoğan and it was donated to the Ministry of Education.

Gülseren Ozdemir Special Education Practice School is Turkey’s largest special educational institution with five thousand square meters of indoor space. At the same time, it is qualified as being the only school among special educational institutions that includes 3 levels namely primary, secondary and high school. The school, which consists of 27 classrooms and has a total capacity of 300 students, is designed to provide education and training in the best conditions for students with moderate and severe disabilities, students with moderate and severe autism, and students with multiple disabilities (mental and physical). In addition to the classrooms, the school is equipped with a library, computer room, parent waiting lounge, parent-teachers association room, physical therapy and speech therapy hall, infirmary, dining hall, conference hall for 100 persons, with backstage and foyer, 2 elevators (of dimensions to accommodate a stretcher), plus training and game stations and outdoor classrooms in the garden.

In the 2018-2019 academic year, a total of 150 students received education at 3 levels in the school. 90 teachers and prospective teachers served in the school to increase their experience and specialization.

KEDS Academy
 
KEDS Academy, established in 2014 to contribute to the solution of the unemployment problem in Kosovo and to provide qualified workforce to the energy sector by the Kosovo Electricity Distribution Company (KEDS), which conducts electricity distribution activities in Kosovo, produced its sixth term graduates.

300 students have graduated so far from KEDS Academy, which is implemented in cooperation with Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center, Pristina University, Ministry of Science, Education and Technology of Kosovo.  The number of students graduated within the program and employed in KEDS and one of the group companies KESCO,  reached 194. Apart from KEDS and KESCO, the number of people employed in the Kosovo electricity sector, continued university education after high school, and those who went abroad for graduate education was 106.

 LimakASI 

Within the scope of the Limak ASI (Limak Airport Services Institute), established in 2014 at the Pristina Adem Jashari International Airport, operated by Limak, trainings on airport management are provided for senior students, and internships and job opportunities are provided to those who successfully complete the program.

150 students have graduated in 5 semesters in the Limak ASI project, which was implemented in cooperation with the University of Pristina and Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center. 57 of the students who successfully completed the program have been employed at the Pristina Adam Jashari International Airport.

Las Academie
 
LAS Academie produced first graduates which was initiated in order to increase the number of the equipped young people in the country and contribute to their easier access to business opportunities in airport management by Blaise-Diagne International Airport that is completed in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and operated with the partnership of Limak, Summa and the Senegal State.

LAS Academie will provide career opportunities in the field of airport management in the world, especially in Blaise-Diagne International Airport, in cooperation with Thies University, Ecole Nationale de L’aviation Civile and Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center.

In the first period of the project, 30 students selected from 300 candidates completed their training program created by Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center, ERNAM and LAS experts in 6 months and received their certificates.

Kuwait’s Engineer Girls
 
The first implementation of “Engineer Girls of Turkey” project abroad  known as “Kuwait’s Engineer Girls” gave second term graduates in 2019. 88 students from Kuwait who successfully completed 200 hours of training within the scope of the program launched in 2017 with the cooperation of Limak Construction Kuwait SPC, Kuwait University and Boğaziçi University, had the right to receive the Management and Leadership Certificate of Business Technology Education Council (BTEC) valid in over 100 countries, Boğaziçi University Lifelong Learning Center Certificate and Kuwait University Field Training Certificate.

9 of the female students who graduated from the project, started working at the construction of Limak Construction’s Kuwait International Airport.