Global Change Award winners 2026
Just in: 10 innovations the textile industry should open immediately. The winners of 2026 are officially here and ready to be unboxed.
Ten changemakers, ten ideas. One shared ambition: to help reshape the future of the textile industry.
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What does it feel like to win? Watch our winners’ reactions as they get the call.
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GCA Impact story: How Resortecs is scaling textile recycling
With more than one million garments already produced using dissolvable thread, Resortecs is showing what design for disassembly can look like in practice. The company’s technology addresses one of textile recycling’s most persistent barriers: garments are still rarely designed to come apart. What started as…
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Raising capital: lessons from three founders scaling circular innovation
Raising capital is often described as a numbers game. For textile innovators, it can mean speaking to more than 100 investors before finding the right partner. We asked three former GCA winners how they secured their first investment, what surprised them most, and what they…
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Meet the winners of the Global Change Award 2026
The ten winners of Global Change Award 2026 are here, and they are tackling key pressure points across the textile industry: from materials to production to end of use. Different ideas, one shared direction: accelerating the shift towards a decarbonised and just industry. The winning…
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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 66 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.
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.