GLOBAL CHANGE AWARD

Catalysing early-stage innovations that can accelerate the transformation of the fashion and textile industry into a planet positive one.

The Latest

June 27, 2024

Meet Annie Lindmark, H&M Foundation’s new Global Change Award Strategy Lead

Rising to the challenge of taking the GCA to the next level, Annie brings a wealth of experience, ideas, and positive energy to the team.

5 takeaways from the GCA Impact Accelerator week in New York

During the culminating accelerator week for the 2023 cohort of Global Change Award winners, the significance of industry-wide collaboration, relationship building, and the role of psychology to drive sustainable change took center stage.

Global Change Award – next level

As impatient change makers, we are curious to explore new ways of using innovation as a driver for change. Learn from Anna Gedda, Global Manager at H&M Foundation, how we are working with GCA right now – to make an even bigger impact.

The GCA 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.

ALL GCA WINNERS

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.

Accenture

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.

KTH

The Mills Fabrica

The Mills Fabrica is a go-to solutions platform accelerating techstyle and agrifood tech innovations for sustainability and social impact.

The Mills Fabrica

Abput

As a philanthropic change agent for the fashion and textile industry, we want to enable a planet positive industry by accelerating and supporting breakthrough innovation to scale and disrupt how fashion is made, seen and worn.

Through our innovation challenge Global Change Award, we support and accelerate early-stage solutions that could transform the future of fashion.

The winning teams receive a financial grant get access to a yearlong accelerator programme, provided by the H&M Foundation, in collaboration with our partners Accenture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and The Mills Fabrica.

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.