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.
WINNERS 2025 | GCA SUMMIT 2025
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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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Ambercycle: a spark that scaled
Ten years ago, two California roommates found a bag of old clothes in their closet: worn-out t-shirts and polyester blends they no longer needed. But for Shay Sethi and Moby Ahmed, it raised a series of questions that would change the course of their lives.…
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5 moments that shaped the GCA Summit 2025
This year’s Global Change Award Summit in Stockholm wasn’t for passive bystanders. It was a creative lab – a space for rewiring how we think, what we value and how we act to shape a new operating system for fashion. The stage programme included voices…
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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.