Zorlu Energy received three awards, two of which are international, with its Zorlu Energy Solutions (ZES) brand established to implement new generation technologies focused on sustainability in line with its Smart Life 2030 vision.

ZES, the market-leading, nature-friendly electric vehicle charging station network serving in all 81 provinces at 717 locations, received the “Low Carbon Heroes Award” during the Carbon Summit organized by the Sustainable Production and Consumption Association (SÜT-D). In addition, ZES was the winner in the best sustainable product/process category at the Best Business Awards held by the UK-based Awards Intelligence.

Furthermore, as an environmentally-friendly company that has positioned sustainability as the main focus in all its operations and carries out its entire set of operations in line with the expectations and needs of its stakeholders, Zorlu Energy, through its environmentally-friendly electric vehicle charging station network ZES, received the award in the “Sustainability Product of the Year” category at the Sustainability Awards held every year by the US-based Business Intelligence Group and attended by the world’s largest companies.

Startups that were deemed eligible for investments in the second cycle of Parlak Bi’Fikir (A Bright Idea), the entrepreneurship program developed by Zorlu Holding as part of its Smart Life 2030 sustainability strategy enabling employees to realize their bright ideas, were announced. The program reinforces a dynamic and innovative corporate culture and has found Be Right Back, Geliverio and Ne Ekersen startups worthy of investment, while it was decided that Selffix will continue its entrepreneurial journey as an internal project at Vestel.

The startups will sustain their operations as independent startups. Zorlu Holding will hold 25% shares in these startups. As part of this partnership, the startups will be supported in a broad range of areas from law to accounting and human resources to communication. The investment is planned to have two phases. In the first phase, TL 500,000 will be invested in each venture.

As part of the sustainability-focused change and transformation movement it has launched via the Smart Life 2030 vision, Zorlu Energy has gradually cemented a place among the organizations that has adopted the sustainability vision. Zorlu Energy is a participant of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, the world’s largest sustainability initiative, and has joined the Young SDG Innovators Program organized by the latter to offer opportunities to young professionals.

A team from Zorlu Energy attended the program designed by UN Global Compact to enable young talents under 35 with leadership potential to develop innovative perspectives regarding sustainability-related problems. The team was comprised of Erdinç Çetin, Deputy CEO for Finance; Ural Halaçoğlu, R&D Manager; Yansı Hilal Şener, Senior Expert for Risk Management, and Olcay Buğu Bekdikhan, Senior Expert at ZES. The team of young engineers and financial experts received great acclaim with their impressive presentation at the Young SDG Innovators Summit they attended as part of the Uniting Business Live event.

Zorlu Center, Turkey’s first 5-function mixed-use project, continues to be a pioneer in Turkey and in the world with its sustainable and smart new generation living spaces. Zorlu Center also holds innovative events that will raise awareness on sustainability. Zorlu Center brings together those who love a good life and those who lead change for sustainability at “Eco Love Fest”. On this journey it set out, Zorlu Center offers new stories and experiences together via the Hybrid Community.

“Eco Love Fest” offered a very rich content featuring ecological workshops, sustainability talks with field expert speakers, ecological workshops for children and adults and inspiring select documentaries from the Life Film Festival as well as the joy of outdoor shopping at world-friendly brands. At Eco Love Fest, Zorlu Center presented visitors enjoyable and awareness-raising moments.

A corporation that has led the way out of the global pandemic thanks to its fast and agile way of doing business, Zorlu Holding continues to support university students in their career journeys through the online internship program Geleceğe Bi’Adım (One Step Into the Future).

This year, a total of 190 students from 55 universities participated in Zorlu Holding’s four-week online internship program, which allows university students to complete their internship despite the pandemic. The internship program aims to prepare young people for them to start life one step ahead. It offers the interns the opportunity to learn about the knowledge and experience of 95 department managers in addition to guidance by 131 internship coaches in the institution to support their learning journeys.

Having given music lovers a full experience every year it is held, the MIX Festival presented by %100 Music was held for a fifth time at Zorlu PSM on 5-6 November. The festival was attended by electronica artist Cihangir Aslan as well as Claire Laffut, the exciting young voice of Belgium; COMA, the German duo; Far Caspian, an alternative music group from Leeds with a soothing voice; Goose, the Belgian electronic rock band; Gaye Su Akyol, who, in her own words, presents examples of the meeting of sweet madness with music; Islandman, a rising star of the electronic music scene; Jakuzi, the recently most popular darkwave and synthpop band; Nova Norda, a values of our local scene; and Vitalic, an electronic music producer. For two days, MIX Festival offered various electronic, indie and dance music performances as well as side events and was deeply appreciated by participants.