Smart textiles network meeting

Wednesday 24 June 2009, 10:00 - 18:00

The third Nordic Smart Textiles Network Meeting

This meeting is organised by the Smart Textiles network, a Nordic collaboration stimulating quality development, research, product development, competence development, and professional state-of-the-art skills within the textile industry.

Some goals of the Smart Textiles Network:

increased cooperation between industry and research institutes
increased competence and professional state-of-the-art skills
higher capacity and more resources to work on larger EU projects
strengthening of the textile industry
new textile products with integrated smart functions

In this meeting we will focus on new research activities as well as industrial development of new products for personal safety, health and well-being.

Program

10:00	Registration and coffee	Hotel Bristol
10:30	Welcome & introduction	Veslemøy Tysse, Oslo University College (NO) Susanne Edström, University College Borås (SE)
10:45	Smart textiles for leisure, professional and healthcare applications: an introduction to wearable systems	Jean Luprano, CSEM (CH)
11:15	Smart textiles for monitoring professional rescuers and fire fighters (the Proetex Project)	AnnaLisa Bonfiglio, University of Cagliari (IT)
11:45	Nordic networking Smart Textiles	Short presentations from the participants
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Nordic industrial projects
	Experiences with development and commercial application of smart textiles	Ivar Grøneng, HellyHansen AS (NO)
	Fire-fighter clothing	Per Arne Andersson and Jørgen Lilljerot, TST-Sweden (SE)
	How new developments, design and materials can improve ath lete’s performance	Lena Grimsrud Aarestad, SWIX Sport AS (NO)
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Nordic research projects
	Smart textile research projects at SINTEF	Hilde Færevik, SINTEF Health (NO)
	A Textile Product Concept based on wireless Monitoring of Heart Rate and Electromyographic Signals	Lena Berglin, The Swedish School of Textiles (SE)
	Smart Textiles Technology Lab	Nils Krister Persson, Høgskolan i Borås (SE)
	SmartWearLab & Wearable technology development in Finland	Harriet Meinander & Jukka Vanhala, Tampere University of Technology (FIN)
17:30	Strengthening the textile industry through cooperation.	Chairs: Hilde Færevik and Susanne Edstrøm
18:00	Conclusions and final remarks
19:00	Dinner at the Opera House

Contact:
Veslemøy Tyssø, Oslo University College
Email: Beskyttet adresse

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