Innovation
Our focus is on early-stage innovation and empowering changemakers, supporting the development of their ideas, and fostering the growth of solutions that contribute to decarbonization of the textile industry.
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Giving the public power to split 1 million euro between innovations that can reinvent the fashion industry
To speed up the shift to a circular waste-free fashion industry, H&M Foundation initiated the yearly innovation challenge Global Change Award in 2015, calling for game-changing ideas that can help…
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A four year global collaboration to develop industrial solutions and new technologies for textile recycling
The non-profit H&M Foundation and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have entered into a four year partnership to develop the required technologies to recycle blend…
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€1 million grant to five innovations that can reinvent the fashion industry
Clothing made of citrus by-products, microbes that digest waste polyester, and an online marketplace for textile leftovers are some of the five disruptive ideas that shared the first €1 million…
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Presenting the winners of the Global Change Award 2016
On 10 February, HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden awarded the winners of the first Global Change Award, an annual innovation challenge for circular fashion initiated by the non-profit H&M…
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€1,000,000 to be allocated between Global Change Award winners in public online vote
The five winners of the first ever Global Change Award have been selected by the expert jury. The ideas range from creating new textile out of citrus juice by-products and…
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€1 million grant to pioneering ideas closing the loop for fashion
On August 25, the H&M Foundation launched the first ever Global Change Award − one of the world’s biggest challenges for early stage innovation and the first such initiative in…