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Global Change Award
June 08, 2023
What if we could reinvent fashion? What if we could make a shift from 'take-make-waste' to a fashion world where there is no waste? What materials would we use? What would the processes and business models look like? We are looking for game changing ideas that can make fashion circular.
Description
Since 2015, we have been pushing to reinvent the fashion industry to become circular. We're currently exploring how to extend the scope and ramp up our impact on the industry and will be open again for applications in 2021. In the meantime, we're putting an extra focus on our new and past winners, to give them the dedicated support that is much needed in the wake of the pandemic.
The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge, initiated by non-profit H&M Foundation in 2015. By catalyzing early innovations that can accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry, the aim is to protect the planet and our living conditions. We are looking for game changing ideas that can make fashion circular - and help protect our planet.
Five winners will share a 1 million grant and get access to a one-year innovation accelerator provided by H&M Foundation, Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
The challenge is open to any individual and groups of up to 5 people.
What is the Global Change Award?
It is one of the world's most prominent challenges for early stage innovation, initiated by H&M Foundation. By catalysing green, truly ground-breaking ideas the aim of the annual challenge is to protect the planet by making fashion circular.
How does the challenge work?
Five Global Change Award entries are selected by an expert panel consisting of advisors with extensive knowledge in the fields of fashion, sustainability, circularity and innovation. The global public is then invited to distribute the 1 million grant between these five innovations, through an online vote. The innovation with the most votes receives 300,000. The idea with the second most votes receives 250,000 followed by the third, fourth and fifth most votes that receive 150,000 each. The five winning concepts also receive access to a one-year innovation accelerator provided by the H&M Foundation, Accenture and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The winners are revealed at a grand award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge, initiated by non-profit H&M Foundation in 2015. By catalyzing early innovations that can accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry, the aim is to protect the planet and our living conditions. We are looking for game changing ideas that can make fashion circular - and help protect our planet.
Five winners will share a 1 million grant and get access to a one-year innovation accelerator provided by H&M Foundation, Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
The challenge is open to any individual and groups of up to 5 people.
What is the Global Change Award?
It is one of the world's most prominent challenges for early stage innovation, initiated by H&M Foundation. By catalysing green, truly ground-breaking ideas the aim of the annual challenge is to protect the planet by making fashion circular.
How does the challenge work?
Five Global Change Award entries are selected by an expert panel consisting of advisors with extensive knowledge in the fields of fashion, sustainability, circularity and innovation. The global public is then invited to distribute the 1 million grant between these five innovations, through an online vote. The innovation with the most votes receives 300,000. The idea with the second most votes receives 250,000 followed by the third, fourth and fifth most votes that receive 150,000 each. The five winning concepts also receive access to a one-year innovation accelerator provided by the H&M Foundation, Accenture and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The winners are revealed at a grand award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.