Call for The Mills Fabrica Global Change Innovation Award 2026!!!
The Mills Fabrica is once again a nominator for the Global Change Award 2026 – and the official entry point for changemakers who want to submit a proposal for potential nomination. As a contributing partner to the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award, they are excited to see which changemakers will help drive the textile industry towards net-zero emissions.
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The H&M Foundation, which was funded by the Persson family (founders and majority owners of the H&M Group), supports the textile industry in halving its greenhouse gas emissions every decade by 2050, while simultaneously promoting a just and fair transition for both people and the planet. Its projects are strategically designed to target high-emission areas along the entire textile value chain where the H&M Foundation’s philanthropic strengths can have the greatest impact.
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The Global Change Award is recognized as a global innovation challenge launched by the H&M Foundation in 2015 with the clear mission to accelerate the transition to a circular and planet-positive fashion industry. The GCA is actively looking for changemakers whose proposals fall into one of four overarching areas:
- Sustainable materials and processes: This includes innovative solutions such as low energy materials and new and recycled fibers, as well as sustainable energy practices, alternative wet processes, treatments and finishes, new construction techniques, and more.
- Responsible production: This area focuses on technologies and methodologies that improve energy efficiency, utilize renewable energy, enable prediction modelling, implement on-demand systems, improve waste management, and offer zero-waste solutions.
- Mindful consumption: This addresses consumer behavior and product lifespan with concepts like reshaping demand, improving garment care, extending garment life cycles, implementing recycling solutions, and pioneering new circular business models.
- Wildcards: This final category is reserved for unexpected impactful ideas that the organizers haven’t even thought of yet, or innovative concepts that amplify transformation across multiple areas of the textile value chain.
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Every year, 10 winners will be awarded. Winning this prestigious award grants access to three key components:
- A yearlong Changemaker Programme :
- As a winner you get access to the Changemaker Programme, designed together with GCA’s strategic partners Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology and contributing partner The Mills Fabrica. It includes three immersive in-person weeks, expert sessions, and an extensive peer network.
- €200,000 grant and global recognition:
- Each winner receives a €200,000 grant, with no strings attached. You are free to collaborate with whoever you want – GCA exists to drive transformation for the entire industry. You’ll be celebrated at the iconic Stockholm City Hall, home of the Nobel Prize banquet, and introduced to the textile industry on a global stage
- Access to the industry and the GCA community:
- You’ll gain access to GCA’s ever-growing, vibrant community of changemakers, researchers, brands, suppliers, investors and more. They actively facilitate connections across the value chain to help you test, grow and scale your solution.
Eligibilities
- The award is open to changemakers (innovators, entrepreneurs, organizations).
- Applicants must submit a proposal for an innovation that will help drive the textile industry towards net-zero emissions and accelerate the transition to a circular and planet-positive fashion industry.
- The challenge is designed to find and support solutions that address high-emission areas along the textile value chain.
Application Process
- Proposal period: The platform is open for submitting your proposal until 6 October 2025, 8.00 am CET. You will be informed by GCA if your idea has been nominated by The Mills Fabrica by the end of October 2025.
- Screening: The screening period stretches from December 2025 to March 2026. The screening is conducted in collaboration with a broad network of industry experts, partners, and expert panel. The winners will be notified in April 2026.
- Announcement: The winners are announced publicly in May 2026.
- Changemaker Program: The yearlong GCA Changemaker Program commences in May 2026.
- Award ceremony: The winners are crowned and celebrated at the Global Change Award ceremony in City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden in October 2026.
Application Deadline: October 6, 2025
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