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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Why changemakers matter: Accelerating fashion’s transformation through innovation
Annie Lindmark and Claire Bergkamp join forces to spotlight how early-stage innovation – and the changemakers behind it – can drive deep decarbonisation across the textile industry. Claire Bergkamp, CEO at Textile Exchange and Annie Lindmark, Programme Director Innovation at H&M Foundation. The problem: Fashion’s…
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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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Rethinking the system: 3 key takeaways from the GCA Summit solutions session
What does it take to accelerate the decarbonisation of the textile industry? At the Global Change Award Summit in Mumbai, over 150 changemakers, industry leaders, and systems thinkers gathered to tackle this very question. The System Map was a centre piece at the solution session…
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The textile industry doesn’t need minor tweaks – it needs bold ideas, fresh perspectives and real system shifts. That’s where the Global Change Award (GCA) comes in.
Run by the H&M Foundation, GCA is an innovation challenge supporting early-stage changemakers who are ready to reimagine the fashion industry from the ground up – with the aim of halving its greenhouse gas emissions every decade.
Each year, ten winners receive €200,000, gain access to our ever-growing ecosystem, and take part in the yearlong Changemaker Programme – a journey designed to grow their ideas, their leadership, and their impact.
Since 2015, the GCA has backed 46 trailblazing teams, helping to move radical ideas toward real-world solutions.
Because transforming fashion isn’t just possible – it’s already happening. And the next chapter starts here.
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.