Face to the economic and social problems caused by manufacturing relocation to low-cost countries, European textile industry wishes to enhance control of its current international supply chain. For this purpose, development of a traceability platform with coded smart textile-based tags enabling to monitor technical, ecological and social parameters of all concerned products and their environments will be significant for managing product quality, risks, counterfeiting and environmental impacts. Based on the results of SMDTex (funded by EU Erasmus Mundus Program from 2013 to 2021), TRACETEX aims to create a joint international doctorate program integrating top-level textile universities around the textile supply chain, distributed in Europe and Asia. Its overall objective is to jointly develop a traceability platform for online monitoring of the international supply chain by using a series of coded smart materials (tags) integrated into textiles. Two AI university partners will also participate in the project for mining big data extracted from connected smart materials. Two industrial partners with experiences on the textile international supply chain will be involved for real data providing, student training and validation of the final results. This doctorate program will enable to combine research results on smart materials and artificial intelligence and make interactions between them in order to develop a series of smart material-based intelligent systems (Cyber Materials), so that sensing and actuation functionalities of materials and reasoning and data mining capacity of AI software can be integrated into fabrics to track technical, ecological and social parameters of the product during its lifecycle. Also, the sustainability of new cyber materials will be extensively studied in order to find optimized design solutions for minimizing environmental impacts and economic costs, and enhance traceability on the whole supply chain. In this multidisciplinary doctorate program, doctorate candidates will be recruited according to the content of various projects from the following disciplines: textile, design, material engineering, chemistry, electronics, management, industrial engineering, information technology. In general, the TRACETEX research projects will be defined around one of the following themes: 1) Smart material design: Design of coded smart materials (tags) fully integrated into textiles, permitting to uniquely identify textile products at different stages and acquire related data. 2) AI algorithms development: Realization of AI-based algorithms enabling to make online decisions on product quality, risks, counterfeiting and environmental and social impacts from data continuously measured from the textile product during its whole lifecycle. 3) Cyber material development: Connection of smart materials to product-oriented AI algorithms in order to continuously track product technical, ecological and social parameters during its lifecycle. 4) Green cyber material Design: Determination of new design solutions of smart materials in order to minimize environmental impacts and economic costs by considering recycling and waste disposal of used materials and integrated devices. 5) Sustainable textile supply chain development: Optimization of the international textile supply chain by integrating the developed cyber materials into products, implementing the final traceability platform for tracking activities of involved partners (production, design, transaction, etc.) and developing relevant business models. The TRACETEX doctorate program is composed of three mobility periods: two in European universities and another in an Asian university. Each mobility period will last for one or one and half year according to the specific academic requirements of involved universities. The involved partners generally represent the leading research level of Europe and Asia in the areas of smart materials and artificial intelligence.