Global Change Award
The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge initiated by H&M Foundation, our goal is to halve the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions every decade while promoting the wellbeing
of both people and the planet.
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Meet the minds
– check out the GCA Expert Panel 2025
The latest
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Meet the minds: Expert Panel screening for GCA 2025 winners
We’re in the final stretch of the Global Change Award (GCA) 2025 selection process, where our Expert Panel is stepping in to help select the changemakers poised to transform the textile industry. This year, we received 476 ideas from 69 countries across 6 continents. Now,…
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How a new System Map can guide the industry towards a net-zero future
By mapping out the path to industry-wide decarbonisation, the System Map helps turn reflection into action, guiding the textile sector toward meaningful change. Now, we are making the map available to the entire industry – inviting actors across the value chain to explore their role…
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Top 20 finalists in Global Change Award 2025 revealed
After having received 476 ideas from 69 countries across 6 continents, we are thrilled to share our top 20 finalists. Pioneering heat-pumps, next-level RFID tags and jaw-dropping textiles generating electricity are some of the innovations found on the Top 20 list. The Global Change Award seeks…
GCA 2025: LET’S
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The Global Change Award accelerates innovation to support the textile industry in halving its greenhouse gas emissions every decade, reaching net-zero by 2050. By supporting passionate changemakers on their unique journeys, H&M Foundation empowers them to transform their brilliant ideas into tangible, impactful innovations. We aim to equip them with a holistic mindset – promoting solutions that will benefit both people and the planet.
The winners each receive €200,000 and enter a yearlong Changemaker Programme provided by the H&M Foundation in collaboration with our strategic partners Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Since its launch in 2015, 46 innovations have received support and a combined grant of 8 million euros from the Global Change Award. Neither H&M Foundation nor H&M Group take any equity or intellectual property rights in the innovations as the aim is to benefit the entire industry.
Our partners
Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation.
OUR Winners
Innovation has the power to do it, and our GCA winners prove it. Already, many teams collaborate with global brands, suppliers and businesses to pilot and scale their innovations and transform the entire fashion and textile industry.
Our winners have disruptive ideas within material, production, recycling, design and customer use – find out more and learn how their innovations can reinvent the industry.