Within the joint project, three different rotor blade concepts are being investigated, whose principles aim to alter the aerodynamic conditions on the rotor blade through active and passive mechanisms and to relieve the structure. While currently, the focus is on demonstrating feasibility through hardware tests and numerically proving the efficiency of smart blade methods, the strategic goal beyond the project duration is to demonstrate full-scale smart blades. To this end, test preparations are already being carried out in the current project, and manufacturing documentation is being created.