INCONTEXT - Smart textiles: marketplace and forward-looking opportunities in context
Inspiring plenary sessions, informative workshops and targeted meetings promises knowledge gain and new business contacts.
CONTEXT, the European Network to connect research and innovation efforts on Advanced Smart Textiles, has been set in the framework of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), the longest running European framework.
The main objective of CONTEXT is to join efforts at European level to facilitate the market uptake of new advanced textile materials, reducing the gap between research and industry. This goal can only be achieved involving all the major stakeholders of the process: universities, technological centers, industry and end-users under the coordination from one of the main tools which contributes to the improvement of competitiveness and productivity of the different economic sectors in the European environment: the clusters.
CONTEXT is structured in 6 working groups, 5 of them focused on different applications of advanced textile materials: healthcare/medical, automotive and aeronautics, personal protection, building and living, sports and wearables. The sixth group focus is dissemination and communication.
