Global Change Award
The Global Change Award accelerates innovation to support the textile industry in halving its greenhouse gas emissions every decade, reaching net-zero by 2050.
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We’re inviting consumers to back the green fashion movement
Five new fashion-disruptors have been awarded in Global Change Award 2019. Now we invite you to join the movement to protect the planet by supporting these creative minds and their…
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€1 million grant to five sustainable fashion innovations
Lab made vegan leather, fibers made of nettles, a digital system to make products recyclable from scratch, children’s clothes that expand and a biodegradable toxic-free membrane for outdoor wear are…
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Juicy Threads – the story about Orange Fiber
In 2015, the Italian company Orange Fiber won the first round of Global Change Award. This spring, their innovation, a luxe fabric made out of citrus juice by-products, is included…
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Making your innovation fly
Apart from the €1 million grant the winners of Global Change Award also get access to an accelerator program. But what is this program all about?
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H&M Foundation puts €1 million and coaching program on the table for ideas reinventing the entire fashion industry
Today, the non-profit H&M Foundation opens the fourth round of its annual innovation challenge Global Change Award at globalchangeaward.com. With over 8,000 entries from 151 countries since 2015, it’s the…
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Let us present the Early Bird Winner of 2018
Worn-out and damaged clothes are often just thrown away, instead of being repaired. This leads to enormous amounts of textile waste. What if your t-shirt or jacket instead could repair…
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Innovations creating a waste-free fashion industry awarded
From food crops, smart stitches and 3D-modelled clothes, to advanced recycling processes and biodegradable clothes with health benefits. On March 20, five innovations that can help speed up the shift…
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You decide how to split 1 million euro between five innovations reinventing the fashion industry
Imagine wearing a coat made of leftovers from harvests of flaxseeds, sugar cane and pineapples, or a t-shirt made of mushroom roots that you decompose in the ground once it’s…
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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 more waste? What materials would we use? What would the process and business…