The SMART 2023 ECCOMAS Thematic Conference will be organized in Patras, at the Conference Center of the University of Patras. The conference is the 10th event in a series of successful international conferences which have followed the field of intelligent materials, smart structures and systems, since 2003 to its current rapid maturity. Its previous editions were held in Poland (2003, 2007), Portugal (2005, 2009, 2015), Germany (2011), Italy (2013), Spain (2017) and Paris (2019).