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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…
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H&M Foundation launches third annual Global Change Award
The annual Global Change Award, initiated by the non-profit H&M Foundation, aims to protect our planet and living conditions by accelerating the shift from a linear to a circular fashion…
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Five innovators awarded for ideas that help create a circular fashion industry
The public have cast their votes. On April 5, at a ceremony in Stockholm City Hall, the five winners of H&M Foundation’s innovation challenge Global Change Award were awarded. The…
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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…