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CONTEXT will celebrate INCONTEXT event on 23rd and 24th March in Prato and Florence. Download the programme

The first activity of 2023 has been the celebration of meetings for the 6 working groups and the last Management Committee Meeting. They took place on 12th and 13th January, in Lagoa, Azores, Portugal. More than 40 experts, from 21 countries, attended these events,...

On 26th and 27th November, a core group meeting was organized in Casablanca, hosted by the Moroccan partner of the network ESITH. The Action chair and some working group leaders and coleaders worked on the preparation of the roadmap for the advanced textiles’ industry...

On 13th October 2022, some WG5 (smart textiles in sports and wearables) members traveled to Boras in Sweden, to hold its periodic meeting. The meeting was hosted by the University of Boras. During the meeting, the participants discussed on novel resource effective...

On 21st to 23rd September, CONTEXT collaborated with the German network SmartTex in the organization of InMotion 2022 – Smart Textiles International Conference, held in Weimar. During the conference, CONTEXT Action Chair, Dr. Ariadna Detrell, presented the main...

Antibacterial Bio-Nanocomposite Textile Material Produced from Natural Resources, by Andrea Zille, Daiva Mikucioniene, Barbara Simoncic and Maja Radetić, among other authors.

CONTEXT has issued its fifth newsletter which includes a brief overview of the network, the major news about its activities as well as related news from its members. Download the newsletter here

On 7th and 8th June, several CONTEXT members gathered in Paris. WG1: Smart Textiles in Healthcare and Medicine, hold a meeting with the participation of 20 experts. It took place on the 7th, and started with a visit to the Lab by IFTH in La Caserne. After lunch, 2...

CONTEXT gathered more than 25 experts from 16 countries in Ghent (Belgium) on March 21st and 22nd to participate at the annual Management Committee meeting and the working groups meetings. On the 21st in the morning, some members visited the facilities of the...

CONTEXT has co-organized, together with SmartTex Netzwerk, the Inmotion conference on smart textiles. It will take place in Weimar (Germany) from 21st to 23th September 2022. InMotion2022, experts will present new technological developments of smart textiles and...

Two new articles published as a result of the cooperation among CONTEXT members: Electrospun PEO/rGO Scaffolds: The Influence of the Concentration of rGO on Overall Properties and Cytotoxicity, by Aleksandra Ivanoska-Dacikj, Urszula Stachewicz, Jelena Tanasić and Ivan...

From November 12th to 13th 2021, CIRATM-9 (International Conference of Applied Research on Textile and Materials) was held in hybrid format (online and in Monastir, Tunisia). It is a scientific meeting that provides an international open forum for researchers from...

CONTEXT has launched a new promotional video. This is the second of a series of videos that CONTEXT is preparing to promote the network and spread the knowledge and use of smart textiles. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/sh6OrrGYhac

Virtual Mobility Grants aim at strengthening the existing networks by allowing scientists to foster collaboration in a virtual setting, to exchange knowledge, learn new techniques, disseminate the Action results, etc. Deadline for applications: 3rd September. Download...

CONTEXT has launched a promotional video. This is the first of a series of videos that CONTEXT is preparing to promote the network and spread the knowledge and use of smart textiles. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/9o-cA1WxVPc

The design presented by Helga Ahrens-Wels, researcher at ITA-Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University, has been selected by CONTEXT management committee to be used for the production of promotional facemasks.

CONTEXT has issued its third newsletter which includes a brief overview of the network, the major news about its activities as well as related news from its members. Download the newsletter here CONTEXT issues a newsletter each semester (next is foreseen December...

CONTEXT opens the call for "Virtual networking support grant". Download the call here.

CONTEXT organized, on 25th March, the webinar “Funding opportunities and success stories for the development of smart textiles”. The webinar started with an introduction to CONTEXT, by its Action Chair, Ariadna Detrell, Cluster Manager at AEI Tèxtils. The second part...

The CONTEXT team is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th call for Conference Grants. Applications will be accepted from 15th to 31st March.   More information available here.

Representatives from 30 countries participated at the 4th Management Committee Meeting of CONTEXT, held virtually on 3rd February. During the meeting, the 3rd grant period working plan was updated, main activities foreseen will be postponed until summer/autumn and new...

CONTEXT has issued its second newsletter which includes a brief overview of the network, the major news about its activities as well as related news from its members. Download the newsletter here CONTEXT will be issuing a newsletter each semester (next is foreseen...

From November 23rd to December 8th 2020, T&G Textech organized a series of webinars dedicated to technical textiles. T&G TEXTECH Events is organized within the framework of the project “German-Tunisian Partnership for capacity building in Technical textiles”...

Aleksandra Ivanoska-Dacikj and Urszula Stachewicz, CONTEXT MC members from North Macedonia and Poland, respectively, have informed about the publication of a scientific article they prepared together. The article,  Smart textiles and wearable technologies –...

The CONTEXT team is pleased to announce the launch of the 6th call for CONTEXT STSM. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until December, 20th, 2020 (until the 8 places are taken or the total budget is spent).  More information available here: STSM

Eight CONTEXT members’ presented a paper at the 3rd European industry and research exchange on technical textiles for health, medical and sport applications,  which was held online on 8th and 9th October 2020. This is the second edition of the conference in which...

Some WG4 members met in Brixen (Italy) during the CONTESS Conference, held from 25th to 26th September. Dr. Enrico Venturini from Next Technology Tecnotessile, WG4 leader, participated as speaker, by presenting CONTEXT and the Working Group. Other WG4 member,...

Due to the cancellation of the activities planned in the second quarter of the year and of the difficulty to organize face-to-face meetings in the coming months, the leaders of the different groups decided to hold their next meeting virtually. The meetings have taken...

CONTEXT has issued its first newsletter which includes a brief overview of the network, the major news about its activities as well as related news from its members. Download the newsletter here CONTEXT will be issuing a newsletter each semester (next is foreseen...

The European network of experts on advanced textile materials, CONTEXT, has started its third grant period. CONTEXT is a Cost Action, which started on October 2018 with the aim of joining efforts at European level to facilitate the market uptake of new advanced...

CONTEXT has approved the entrance of a new country to the network: Norway. It will be represented at the Management Committee by Dr. Azadeh Motealleh from the company Abalonyx AS. With this new entrance, CONTEXT has reached 35 countries involved in the European...

The European network of experts on advanced textile materials, CONTEXT, has closed its second grant period. The second grant period started on 1st May 2019 and lasted one year. This  included the following activities: On 15th May, some CONTEXT members met during the...

WG1 and WG5 have issued the state of the art reports on smart textiles for healthcare and medicine applications and on smart textiles for sportswear and wearables. State of the art report on smart textiles for healthcare and medicine applications State of the art...

CONTEXT has co-organized, together with SmartTex Netzwerk, the Inmotion conference on smart textiles. It was planned to take place in Weimar (Germany) from 27th to 29th April 2020. The conference will focus on solutions for automotive, aeronautics and personal...

CONTEXT, the international network of experts in advanced textile materials, gathered more than 60 experts from 33 countries in Ljubljana on January 29th and 30th to participate at annual management committee meeting and the third working groups meetings. The meetings...

CONTEXT members will meet on 29th and 30th January 2020 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). On the 29th the six CONTEXT working groups will held their meetings. On the 30th, the Management Committee meeting will take place. The host will be the University of Ljubljana.

On 21st November, WG1 members met at EMPA facilities in St. Gallen (Switzerland). The participants visited the facilities of the research center and held a workshop in which they discussed about the trends of the medical and healthcare sectors related to textile...

WG5 members met in Bursa (Turkey) during the Recent Progress Symposium on Textile Technology and Chemistry, held from 20th to 22nd November. Professor Vincent Nierstrasz from the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås, WG5 leader, participated as...

On 21st November, the final event of the EU-TEXTILE2030 project was held in Lyon. EU-TEXTILE2030 is a project co-funded by COSME – Clusters go International program from the European Commission which hada the following objectives: To consolidate the European cluster...

From November 13th to 15th, the international conference ITMC - International Conference on Intelligent Textiles & Mass Customisation was held in Marrakech. The ITMC is organized every two years and the organization rotates among the 5 coordinating countries...

On October 24th and 25th 2019, the international conference TexTech took place in Bucharest. The meeting was organized by the national textile research center of Rumania, INCDTP. During the 2-days conference, more than 30 experts from different countries presented...

On October 15th and 16th 2019, CONTEXT organised together with the Textile ETP (European Textile Technology platform), IVGT (German Technical Textile Association) and FKT (German Textile Research Council) an International Seminar on Advanced and Smart Textiles in...

The next workshop of WG1 Smart Textiles in Healthcare & Medicine will be held on 21 November 2019 in EMPA St Gallen. Download the agenda here In case of interest to participate, please contact the WG1 leader (Dr. Yesim Oguz) by email...

On 15th & 16th October 2019, CONTEXT will jointly organise with the Textile ETP, IVGT (German Technical Textile Association) and FKT (German Textile Research Council) an International Seminar on Advanced and Smart Textiles in Architecture, Construction &...

On 15th May, some CONTEXT members met during the exhibition TECHTEXTIL and TEXPROCESS in Frankfurt. The group visited the Smart Textiles Micro-Factory by the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA) from the RWTH Aachen University. Later on, after a meeting to discuss...

On 24th and 25th April the annual conference of the European Textile Technology Platform took place in Brussels. The event was attended by more than 180 professionals in the sector and its focus was "circular, bio-based, digital: The Keys to Europe Textile future"....

CONTEXT has been present at the iTechStyle Summit, held in Porto from 2nd to 4th April 2019 and organized by CITEVE. Some of CONTEXT members presented a paper at the Summit and more than 20 members attended the event. On the 2nd April a transversal WGs meeting took...

The CONTEXT team is pleased to release the videos recorded live during the 1st CONTEXT conference and the presentations from the different speakers. The conference was the public launch of the CONTEXT network and was held on January 31st 2019 in Barcelona. WELCOME Mr....

More than 70 experts from 35 countries met in Barcelona during January 30th, 31st and February 1st to participate in several activities organized by CONTEXT, the international network of experts in advanced textiles’ materials that is led by the Catalan technical...

The CONTEXT conference aims to publicly present the Network to main stakeholders, highlighting its origin and its added value in order involve the key players in the area of advanced textile materials such as researchers, the textile industry and the final users....

On October 11th CONTEXT was officially established in Brussels. The kick off meeting, held at COST facilities, gathered more than 40 experts representing the 27 countries that initially constituted the Management Committee of CONTEXT: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia...