The European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (Textile ETP) is the largest European network dedicated to textile research and innovation. Its main objectives are to ensure the long-term competitiveness of the EU textile and clothing industry through collaborative research across national borders in Europe and a rapid translation of research results into industrial innovation. Its services and activities include strategy and policy development for European textile research, information provision about EU textile research funding opportunities, brokerage of partnerships for EU research funding applications, dissemination of results of EU-funded textile research projects, organisation of conferences and seminars on textile innovation trends and new technology developments and networking among its members and other organisations interested in textile research and innovation in Europe. The Textile ETP currently has about 175 member organisations from industry, research and higher education with a total of over 500 registered individual experts.