ABOUT THE JOINT EUROPEAN
DISRUPTIVE INITIATIVE - JEDI
4100
JEDIs
29
European countries represented
16
Technology Challenges ready to launch.
3 launched already
The Joint European Disruptive Initiative is a non-profit, common-good agency powered by Europe’s civil society and its tech and science ecosystem. It is entirely independent, intellectually and financially fueled by the contribution of the 4.100 JEDIs in 29 countries as well as by foundations and public funding.
JEDI aims to provide Europeans and democracies with the means of technological and scientific power, for prosperity and societal resilience. Driven by humanistic values, it is focused on solving major societal challenges of our time through innovation, with a method based on speed, excellence and bold risk-taking. It is often called 'the European Darpa'.
JEDI'S MISSION - SOLVE SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHALLENGES THROUGH INNOVATION
The mission of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative is to bring Europe and democracies in a leadership position in breakthrough technologies, and to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges through innovation. We do this by launching Technology GrandChallenges to push the frontiers of science & technology, and to invent the Next Big Thing.
JEDIs are CEOs of deeptech startups and SMEs, heads of research labs and academics, executives from large corporations who share the vision that technology must be a force for good and should be placed at the service of mankind.
A DARPA-inspired methodology
Our inspiration includes the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). For sixty years, DARPA achieved breakthrough innovations, transforming revolutionary concepts & seemingly impossible challenges into working prototypes (Internet, GPS, stealth technology, automated voice recognition, language translation, autonomous cars, among many others)
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