Deadline: October 31, 2016

The Global Change Award is open for applications. Apply with your idea on how to make fashion circular for a chance to share the €1 million grant. The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge by H&M Foundation looking for game changing ideas that can make fashion circular - and help protect our planet.

What if you could reinvent the global fashion industry? What if you could help end the take-make-waste cycle and make fashion circular? Five innovators will share €1,000,000 to develop their ideas for a sustainable fashion future.

Benefits

• Five winners will share a €1 million grant
• Winners will also receive a spot in the one-year innovation accelerator program provided by H&M Foundation, Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
• If you submit your entry before 30 September you could win a study trip to #Shanghai

Early Bird Competition Entry

The Early Bird winner will be invited to join the five winners of the Global Change Award 2016 on a unique study trip to Shanghai, which is part of their one-year tailor-made Innovation Accelerator. The trip will offer exclusive industry insight, opportunities to network and to learn more about circularity and fashion's value chain, in order to develop your idea further.

Eligibility

• The challenge is open to any individual and groups of up to 5 people over 18 years of age anywhere in the world
• It is also open for institutions, organizations and social business
• Your entry has to be in English and that all communication including the Innovation Accelerator will be in English

Selection Criteria

The evaluation will be based on the following criteria:

• the entry's potential to make fashion circular and thereby protect planet and lead to improved living conditions for people
• how big impact can it have on the fashion industry
• is it economically sustainable
• can it scale
• is it novel
• how well suited is the team to make it happen
• would winning the grant make a difference

Entry Rules

Please note that your entry should follow the rules below:

• 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

How to Apply

• You apply by filling out the application form at apply.globalchangeaward.com
• All participants have to fulfill the term&conditions connected to the challenge

For more information, visit Global Change Award

From opportunitydesk.org