Global Change Award - Trend report on the future for sustainable fashion

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The Global Award one ofheroes the world’s LayingChange the ground forisfuture leading challenges for early stage innovation, and the largest initiative of its kind in the fashion industry. It was initiated in 2015 by the non-profit H&M Foundation, to accelerate the shift from a linear to a circular fashion industry and, ultimately, to protect the planet and our living conditions. We are looking for tomorrow’s game-changers – innovations that have the possibility to make real impact on a large scale. Each year, an expert panel selects five winners from thousands of applications from around the world. This year, we had 6,640 entries from 182 countries. The winning teams share a grant of €1 million, and get access to a one-year accelerator program provided by the H&M Foundation, Accenture and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The aim of the program is to bring the innovations to scale and to the market as quickly as possible, maximizing their impact on the indus­ try. And previous winners have shown impressive results, far beyond anybody’s expectations. Neither the H&M Foundation nor the H&M group take any equity or intellectual property rights in the innovations.


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