The primary objective of SmartX programme is to build a community with all those who count for the future of European smart textiles. Within this community, the key ambition of SmartX is to shape and establish the industrial value chains that are needed to realise industrial manufacturing of smart textiles and to set up the ecosystem for full commercial exploitation.

Each of these projects focuses on a specific product and a related part of the value chain for Smart Textiles. SmartX Trailblazer projects combine a set of disciplines, regions and/or cultures for the first time, thus following the true meaning of a trailblazer: making a new path. They serve as flagships, i.e. high-level showcases.

The SmartX open collaboration platform and the cross-sectoral and cross-cultural matchmaking also help to create a common language, understanding and perception. The platform presents the needs, possibilities and limits of the collaborating sectors but also of wider stakeholders (e.g. data security, standardisation), to simplify the initiation of joint innovation.