18 Oct 2016

Into Innovative Fashion Creation? Enter for the H&M Global Change Award 2016. €1 Million Grant

Application Deadline: 31st October 2016.
Eligible Countries: All
To be taken at (country): Online and Sweden
About the Award: What if we could make a shift from “take-make-waste” to a fashion world where there is no waste? What if we could make fashion circular.
What if everything could be made again. Knowing what we know today, how would we then create the materials we use, design the processes we utilize and construct the businesses that drive fashion? What if fashion could be truly circular? What if we could reinvent it all.
We think there is no better moment to do this than now. And we believe that you have the ideas to make it possible.
We are looking for early stage ideas, within three categories, that present new circular approaches that reinvent the fashion industry. This means changing the way garments are designed and produced, shipped, bought, used and recycled today, by adding disruptive technology or new business models.
Circularity is not just about recycling. This year, you can compete in three categories to help make fashion circular.
Type: Entrepreneurship contest
Eligibility: 
  • Only one entry per participant/group is accepted. Each participant/group can register only once.
  • Entry must be the applicant’s own creation.
  • Maximum 5 team members, including the team leader.
  • For group entries, members must nominate a leader and contact person.
Selection Criteria:  The global public is invited to distribute the €1 million grant between the five innovations through an online vote. The result of the vote is revealed at a grand award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 5th April 2017. This is one of the world’s biggest challenges for early stage innovation and the first such initiative in the fashion industry.
Number of Awardees: Five
Value of Programme: By applying to the Global Change Award you’re competing for:
  • A € 1.000.000 grant, shared by five winners. Which will be distributed by the public though an online vote.
  • A trip to Stockholm to attend the grand award ceremony on 5 April 2017.
  • Access to a one-year Innovation Accelerator provided by H&M Foundation, Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
How to Apply: The application form is divided into the following four parts:
  • Register for an account and fill in your profile.
  • Answer a few basic questions about your idea.
  • Give us the details on how your idea will make fashion circular.
  • Submit your idea.
Apply here
Award Provider: H&M Foundation

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