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Previous Key winners from the H&M Foundation's Global Change Award

London - Winning any type of grant can have a profound effect on any innovative startup. But being the winner of the H&M's annual Global Change Award, an initiative specially developed to support early-stage innovations that focus on sustainability can bring help accelerate the startup to the next level. For example, Vegea, a company which take...

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‘Grape leather’ wins H&M Foundation innovation award

A waste-free fashion industry is the goal of H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award and the second edition saw innovative vegetal leather called "Grape Leather” as the winner of the public vote to win the top prize of 300,000 euros. The initiative, launched in 2015 by non-profit arm of retail giant H&M, aims to reward technology concepts that make...

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H&M opens voting to the public for Global Change Awards 2017

London - In its efforts to encourage textile innovation and led the way towards a circular economy within the fashion industry the H&M Foundation has launched the second cycle of its annual Global Change Awards. Now the second round of 5 winners have been selected and H&M has opened up its voting up to the public to decide how the 1 million euro...