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Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Environmental Projects Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
Hyundai Motor Extends Healthy Seas Partnership with Joint Conservation and Educational Initiatives in Türkiye
SEOUL, July 8, 2026 – Hyundai Motor Company and the Healthy Seas Foundation today announced the expansion of their five-year partnership with the launch of joint activities in Türkiye.
The announcement was marked with an event at Hyundai Motor Türkiye’s production facility in İzmit and along the Black Sea coast, bringing together company employees, university students and community members for hands-on ocean conservation and knowledge-sharing.
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 creates shared value for present and future generations.
CEO of Hyundai Motor Türkiye
More than 50 participants attended the event which combined facility education, corporate responsibility dialogue and coastal beach waste collection session The day began at Hyundai Motor Türkiye’s İzmit factory, where attendees received a tour followed by a session detailing the company’s “Creating Shared Value” (CSV) strategy, local programs and the Healthy Seas collaboration. Hyundai’s plant in İzmit will start producing the new IONIQ 3 this year.
During the presentation, participants learned about Hyundai Motor Türkiye’s existing CSR initiatives, including:
The university students participating in the event were recipients of Hyundai Motor Türkiye’s scholarship program, which has supported emerging talent through TEV’s educational initiatives. This connection underscores the company’s dual commitment to education and community stewardship.
Following the facility visit and corporate responsibility session, participants traveled to a nearby Black Sea beach for a hands-on cleanup operation. The group collected approximately 40 kilograms of litter, including bottle caps, cigarette butts, plastic fragments and other persistent marine pollutants. The activity facilitated dialogue among local community members, ocean conservation experts and educational institutions about protecting coastal ecosystems.
Healthy Seas experts briefed participants on the partnership’s five-year track record and the organization’s core work, including prevention education and the removal of abandoned fishing nets — often called “ghost nets” — that can persist for decades and damage marine life and entire ecosystems.
Since 2021, Hyundai Motor and Healthy Seas have collaborated to advance ocean conservation through education and awareness initiatives worldwide. The partnership has yielded significant results:
These programs transform complex ocean conservation challenges into tangible, personal experiences that communities can observe, engage with and remember long-term.
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 connect people directly with the issue of marine litter, while also showing how prevention, cleanups, and circular economy thinking can all play a role in protecting the sea.
Director of the Healthy Seas Foundation
Hyundai Motor’s vision of “Progress for Humanity” and its CSV strategy demonstrate how collaborative action drives tangible positive impact on both ocean health and society. The Türkiye expansion illustrates how innovation with purpose helps drive meaningful change.
Philippe Jourdain
pjourdain@hyundai.com
Global PR Team 1 · Huyndai Motor Company
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About Healthy Seas
Healthy Seas is a foundation dedicated to safeguarding the world’s oceans through three key pillars: clean-up, education, and the prevention of marine litter. Since 2013, we have collaborated with volunteer divers, educators, local communities, and maritime stakeholders to recover 1,309 tons of fishing nets and other marine debris. Together with 150 partners and nearly 550 volunteers, our work focuses on marine conservation and circular economy solutions, transforming recovered materials into innovative new products with our partners whenever possible.
About Hyundai Motor Company
Established in 1967, Hyundai Motor Company is present in over 200 countries with more than 120,000 employees dedicated to tackling real-world mobility challenges around the globe. Based on the brand vision of ‘Progress for Humanity,’ Hyundai Motor is accelerating its transformation beyond mobility through advanced robotics and physical AI. The company invests in new technologies to bring about revolutionary solutions while pursuing open innovation to introduce future mobility services. In pursuit of a sustainable future for the world, Hyundai Motor will continue its commitment to carbon reduction as a full lineup provider with industry-leading ICE, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, hydrogen fuel cell and EV technologies.
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