Global Change Award
Every year, we back bold thinkers at the idea stage – changemakers with the potential to transform the industry from within.
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Fresh from being celebrated in Stockholm, our 2025 winners have now taken the global stage: pitching their ideas at the GCA Summit, connecting with industry leaders from across the world, and rounding off the week with an unforgettable Award Ceremony at Stockholm City Hall.
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The latest
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What I learned in Vietnam: Reflections from Changemaker Week 3
Week 3 marks the final chapter of the GCA Changemaker Programme and is a week of industry immersion: stepping inside production sites, meeting manufacturers and connecting innovation to real-world implementation. In this blog post, 2025 winner and co-founder of PulpaTronics Chloe So shares her reflections…
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Meet the experts shaping GCA 2026
With Global Change Award 2026 underway, we’re introducing this year’s Expert Panel: a group of industry leaders and thinkers bringing experience from across the textile system. Their combined insight will help guide the selection of this year’s winners, ensuring that early-stage ideas with the strongest…
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10 years of backing early-stage innovation and why it still matters
Ten years after its launch, the Global Change Award has grown from an ambitious idea into a leading platform for early-stage innovation in the textile industry. Much has changed since 2015, yet the need to support early ideas and take long-term risks remains as critical…
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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 56 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.
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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.