H&M Foundation, the non-profit funded by the Persson family, which founded fashion retailer H&M, has named 10 early-stage innovations that will “reshape the fashion industry” from clean tech recycling in China to community-powered circularity in Ghana as winners of the Global Change Award (GCA) 2025. The annual awards aim to spotlight “...
May 20, 2025
The H&M Foundation has unveiled a change in strategic direction in its annual innovation challenge, the Global Change Award (GCA), to support the textile industry’s aim of halving its greenhouse gas emissions each decade to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The GCA 2025 is now open to innovative solutions and concepts that seek to address...
Oct 23, 2024
The H&M Foundation, the non-profit organisation funded by the Stefan Persson family, founders and main owners of the H&M Group, has announced ten Global Change Award winners for 2023, as it doubles the number of winners and grant funding to 2 million euros to accelerate change in the fashion industry. The Global Change Award is an early-stage...
Jun 8, 2023
H&M has announced that the applications for its Global Change Award (GCA) have now opened, as it calls on innovators and entrepreneurs to apply for a chance to win their share of a one million euro grant. Five winners will ultimately be selected and will also gain access to the company’s one-year long GCA Impact Accelerator, with the grant to be...
Oct 21, 2022
H&M Group’s non-profit H&M Foundation has named five winners of its Global Change Award 2022 and awarded 1 million euros to the early-stage innovators looking to transform the fashion industry. The 2022 winning innovations hail from the UK, Sweden, India, China and the US and include a laundry solution that prolongs garments’ life, AI helping...
Apr 6, 2022
The H&M Foundation has announced that its Global Change Award is returning for 2022, after being paused by the pandemic, and is calling on early-stage innovations challenging to transform the fashion industry to apply. The Global Change Award, launched in 2015 by non-profit H&M Foundation, in collaboration with Accenture and the KTH Royal...
Aug 25, 2021
The H&M foundation has opened the fifth round of its Global Change Award and is offering one million euros to five innovators with ideas to make the fashion industry more circular. The winners - who are each year selected by an international expert panel, with knowledge working within fashion, sustainability, circularity and innovation - will...
Aug 29, 2019
H&M Foundation explains the impact and importance of it's Global Change Award program through the words of past winners. These young fashion players are recognized by this award and given the tool to accelerate their careers and innovative ideas in making the industry more sustainable. Source: H&M Foundation, YouTube.
Aug 28, 2019
Stockholm - "Innovation is the key to complete circularity", said the H&M Group in a recent sustainability report. Looking to find this key, the Swedish fast fashion giant created the Global Change Award five years ago. The yearly competition culminates with a prize of 1 million euro (approximately 1.1 million US dollars or 850,000 pounds),...
Apr 5, 2019
What’s going on in the world of fashion this week? FashionUnited takes a look ahead at the upcoming news and events for the 14th week of the year. Below are the main points from the editorial agenda in the period between 1-7 April, 2019. Shanghai Fashion Week (27 March-3 April) The biannual Shanghai Fashion Week is back to showcase the newest AW...
Apr 1, 2019
Do you see opportunities where others see problems? Do you want to join us to reimagine the future of fashion, to protect the planetary boundaries and our living conditions? Do you have an innovation which is still in its early stage, and with the right funding and coaching, could be scalable and make a real impact? Apply to the Global Change...
Aug 30, 2018
