Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

In the workshop held on May 25-26 at Antalya Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort, the General Directorate of Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of National Education and the directors and experts of TOBB Antalya, Izmir and Muğla Women Entrepreneurs Councils and many relevant chambers and union representatives participated in the workshop and opinions and suggestions for the development and implementation of the educational program of the project were evaluated. With the program to be shaped by the resulting outputs, trainings will be given to micro-business representatives.

Under the leadership of TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), the Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Lifelong Learning and the “Clean Business” Project, which has an important experience in this field with its Clean Toilet Campaign for 21 years, aims to create hygiene-oriented training programs for micro-enterprises in the service sector and to have clean, hygienic, healthy service offering enterprises throughout Turkey. With the “Clean Business Project”, it is aimed to increase the hygiene capacities of micro-enterprises - enterprises with annual employee employment of less than 10 people and whose annual net sales revenue or financial balance sheet does not exceed TL 3 million – as well as increasing their revenues and work satisfaction. It is aimed to document hygiene norms with the certificate to be issued at the end of the trainings. It is aimed to expand the trainings throughout Turkey and to be sustainable, not limited to the pandemic period.

A development workshop was held in Antalya within the scope of the project launched in January. In the workshop held at Antalya Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort on May 25-26, the General Directorate of Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of National Education and the directors and experts of TOBB Antalya, Izmir and Muğla Women Entrepreneurs Councils and many relevant chambers and union representatives participated in the workshop and opinions and suggestions for the development and implementation of the educational program of the project were evaluated. Solution proposals, educational content and possible gains which will contribute to the development of the project were presented in the workshop, which was held for two days in accordance with Covid-19 measures, focusing on the basic problems of micro enterprises operating in the service sector and those receiving services from micro enterprises. In this way, during this period when hygiene and cleanliness perceptions are changing with the resulting roadmap, basic actions will be taken to ensure that the participants who receive services feel comfortable, peaceful and safe in their environment and contribute to improvements to business owners other than routine measures.

After the workshop, the contents of the training program for micro enterprises will be created and trainings will be given to business representatives in Public Education Centers in cooperation with the General Directorate of Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of National Education. By giving the 'Clean Business Certificate’ to the trained enterprises, hygiene status will be determined and documented, thus making these enterprises more preferred.

- Ministry of National Education General Manager of Lifelong Learning Yusuf Büyük: We will start a major transformation by spreading our project to Turkey

Speaking at the workshop, Yusuf Büyük, General Manager of Lifelong Learning at the Ministry of National Education, stated that they acted with the idea that there is no limit to the age of education. “‎The General Directorate of Lifelong Learning is an outward-facing directorate of the Ministry of National Education. ‎Our goal has always been how to increase the number of people we train, how we can reach more trainees. With 995 Public Education Centers and 24 Maturation Institutes, we reach the most remote districts of Turkey. We have come a long way with all our stakeholders since then in the 'Clean Business Project', which we started on World Hygiene Day in January. In our culture, cleanliness has always been at the forefront. We washed our hands frequently before the pandemic and offered cologne to our guests. With this project, we will spread our culture of cleanliness even more to give the young people of this country a cleaner, better world for their children. I believe there will be great results from this workshop. I believe that we will start a great transformation by spreading our project all over Turkey.”

- OPET Founding Member – TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council President Nurten Öztürk: The project will contribute to the development of our country

Thanking everyone who contributed to the project and contributed to it, OPET Founding Member and TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council President Nurten Öztürk said: “As OPET, we produce long-term projects that live on the basis of stakeholder participation, seek solutions to social problems, and give full support to many projects. In order to create a clean and healthy society, we have provided hygiene and cleaning trainings to more than 10 million people with our Clean Toilet Campaign since 2000. The pandemic once again demonstrated how necessary hygiene is for every environment. With the Clean Business Project we will do great things together for this country. In our country, every person who will establish a business needs to obtain some competence information about the business he will establish from somewhere. We want to do this with the General Directorate of Lifelong Learning, TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council and our very valuable teachers in Clean Business Project. I believe that this project will make a significant contribution to the development of our country. We have power, we have energy, and the biggest thing is the excitement we have. Our businesses will be clean.”