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H & M Foundation Global Change Award 2022 (€1 million Grant)

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: October 20, 2021.

The Global Change Award 2022 is looking for early stage ideas that can help create a sustainable fashion future. Ideas that can change the way fashion is seen, worn, and made. Do you have one?

Requirements

  • The idea’s potential to accelerate the shift from a linear to a planet positive fashion industry, to address the global commons and protect the planet and living conditions
  • The idea’s potential to scale and create impact
  • The financial viability of the idea
  • The novelty of the idea
  • How well suited the team is to make it happen
  • Whether winning the grant would make a difference

Benefits

  • Share a grant of 1 million euros to develop your innovation.
  • Access to the one-year-long tailormade GCA Impact Accelerator, provided by the H&M Foundation, Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. This includes support enabling the winners to accelerate towards scale and impact.
  • Global visibility, recognition and validation.
  • Once the Accelerator programme is up, all winners are invited to join the Alumni community with past GCA winners, who share tips, support and network with each other.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Global Change Award 2022

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Call for Applications

H & M Foundation Global Change Award 2019 (€1 million Grant & Fully Funded to Stockholm, Sweden)

by OFA
written by OFA

Application Deadline: October 17, 2018, 23:00 GMT.

Can your innovation help reinvent the fashion industry and protect the planet? H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award is looking to find innovations that have the potential to shift the fashion industry from its linear approach to a circular one.

The world is already using approximately 1.6 planet’s worth of resources every year. There is an urgent opportunity to shift from “take-make-waste” to a fashion industry where resource loops are tightened and valuable materials are recovered.

To become circular, the fashion industry must reinvent itself in how to design, what materials to use, how to dye, cut and sew, ship, sell, own, use and dispose fashion. New technology, business models and materials can make this possible.

Each year, five winners are selected by an international expert panel. The winners will share a grant of €1 million and embark on a yearlong tailor-made Innovation Accelerator Program, designed to take your innovation to the next level and bring it to the market as quick as possible.

This year the expert panel will be especially on the look-out for innovations with digital technologies applied. If you have ideas related to connectivity, internet of things or machine learning – give it your best shot.

Learn more and apply here

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the H & M Foundation Global Change Award 2019 

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2015 H&M Conscious Foundation Global Change Award ( € 1 million for Innovation in the Fashion Industry)

by lanredahunsi
written by lanredahunsi

Application Deadline: 31st October 2015

H&M Conscious Foundation launches the first ever Global Change Award−one of the world’s biggest challenges for early stage innovation and the first such initiative in the fashion industry. By catalysing green, truly ground-breaking ideas the aim of the challenge is to protect the earth’s natural resources by closing the loop for fashion.
The Global Change Award takes on one of the biggest challenges facing today’s fashion industry–to create fashion for a growing population while reducing its impact on the environment.
“The question for fashion is no longer “What is the new black?” but rather “What innovative ideas can close the loop?” The Global Change Award is looking for ideas that will protect the earth’s natural resources.
The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge, initiated by H&M Conscious Foundation in 2015. By catalyzing green, truly game- changing ideas the aim is to protect the earth’s natural resources and close the loop for fashion. The challenge annually selects
five ideas that share a grant of € 1 million and are supported with a unique one-year innovation accelerator provided by the H&M Conscious Foundation, Accenture and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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The five ideas are nominated by an expert jury consisting of Michael Braungart, Rebecca Earley, Ma Jun,Eva Kruse, Johan Rockström, Ellis Rubinstein, Franca Sozzani and Amber Valletta. The global public is invited to distribute half of the total grant through an online vote. The result of the vote is revealed at a grand award ceremony in Stockholm, February 2016. This is one of the world’s biggest challenges for early stage innovation and the first such initiative in the fashion industry
Benefits:
  • Five winners, chosen by an expert jury, will share a grant of €1 million and get access to a tailor-made innovation accelerator.
  • The innovation accelerator− a collaboration with Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm− will give the five winners the support and knowledge they need to actualize their ideas.
  • Starting off with an innovation boot camp in Stockholm, provided by KTH Innovation
    , it will be followed up by guidance from Accenture Strategy on how to develop the winning ideas further.
  • This includes the provision of a one-year training and coaching programme with a particular focus on circular economy.
  • The innovation accelerator will also provide exclusive fashion industry access and offer possibilities to build networks and try out the ideas within the fashion value chain

    Selection

  • The global public will be invited to distribute half of the total grant through an online vote.
  • The result will be revealed at a grand award ceremony in Stockholm, in February 2016

Key Dates:

  • 25.08.2015 : First ever Global Change Award is launched and application opens at
  • 31.10.2015 : Application closes.
  • 01.02.2016 : Five winners, selected by the expert jury, are revealed. Each winner is guaranteed €100,000. The global public is invited to distribute the other half of the total grant through an online vote.
  • 07.02.2016 : The online vote closes. Half of the total grant has been distributed between the five winners.
  • 10.02.2016 : The result of the vote is revealed at a grand award ceremony in Stockholm

Apply Now for the H&M Conscious Foundation Global Change Award

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the H&M Conscious Foundation Global Change Award

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