The award ceremony of the “Hyundai Painting Competition: Vehicles That Heal the World” project, which was implemented by Hyundai Motor Türkiye to support children’s imagination and raise awareness about a sustainable future, was held. The competition, which attracted great attention from across Türkiye, allowed children to express their dreams of making the world a better place through art.
The competition, which was held for the second time this year, was started specifically in Kocaeli in its first year and spread throughout the country in a short time. Within the scope of the project, which received applications from 60 different provinces, the creative ideas developed by children focusing on sustainability, technology and social benefit attracted attention. In the competition, children presented their ideas for vehicles that would improve the world in line with the Sustainable Development Goals with original drawings and turned them into stories in their own words. The winning works among hundreds of applications are; He stood out with his visions of a sustainable world, lives improved with technology and a hopeful future.
Hyundai Motor Türkiye carries out its global social responsibility projects under the umbrella of “Hyundai Continue”; continues with its focus areas of nature, mobility and hope. In this context, the Painting Competition project provides an important platform that supports children’s imagination and makes their hopes for the future visible, while aiming to raise awareness so that the next generation will notice the problems in the world and take action to find solutions to these problems.
As a result of the evaluations made by the independent jury established with the participation of Ahmet Aydemir, Ayça Çizer, İdil Türkmenoğlu, Seydi Murat Koç and Yalvaç Ural, the works selected from the final works were determined according to the criteria of creativity, theme suitability and artistic expression. While the award-winning works and their owners were announced during the ceremony, the 10 selected works were turned into reality as 3D model vehicles by Hyundai Motor Türkiye.
Kerem Karaoğlan, who participated in the competition from Izmir, received the Hyundai Special Award; Turna Nur Benk (Erzurum), Aylin Mercan Akpulat (Kastamonu), Efe Dükenmez (Zonguldak) were among the winners.
Among the children evaluated in 3 different categories, Cemre Erkan (Manisa), Tuana Karakaş (Manisa), Çınar Öztaş (Kocaeli) won the second prize, and Eylül Asya Çetinkaya (İstanbul), Nehir Coşkun (Antalya), Ensar Doğru (Kocaeli) won the third prize.
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