Media Release

February 19

Paris, Berlin, Brussels, London, Rome, Warsaw

Look Up and the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) have announced that Look Up is becoming a JEDI Partner. Look Up is a SpaceTech company which aim is to develop capabilities that meet the political and strategic challenges of space safety and security. The Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) is the European advanced research projects initiative (European ARPA), with the mission to develop the technological breakthroughs that will ensure Europe’s future competitiveness and sovereignty. JEDI is active in Energy & Climate, Life Sciences, as well as Computing (AI, Cyber, Quantum, semiconductors) & Space.

This partnership gives Look Up access to JEDI’s technology workshops with leaders from tech, industry, science and government and to the largest deeptech ecosystem in Europe. It will leverage Look Up unique capabilities in space awareness and accelerate the space moonshot technology programs that the Joint European Disruptive Initiative is launching (data, comms, materials).

“At Look Up, we are committed to building the capabilities that Europe needs to confront today’s political and strategic challenges in space. We found in the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) a strong partner that acts so that Europe asserts itself as a global technology leader to safeguard its sovereignty—an ambition in which space plays a decisive role.” commented General (ret.) Michel Friedling, Co-founder and CEO at Look Up. “We share the vision that Europe must be bolder and more ambitious, capitalizing on its dynamic innovation ecosystem and exceptional talents to lead rather than follow. We are proud to team up with the Joint European Disruptive Initiative and bring our space awareness and space safety capabilities that we are building up all over the world.”

André Loesekrug-Pietri, Chairman & Scientific Director of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) added “We at JEDI see space as a critical continuum to the digital infrastructure. But in the past 20 years, Europe has drifted from major space actor to mere follower. Today space is about communication, intelligence and earth observation, as well as competitiveness and hard security”. He added: “To avoid becoming irrelevant, Europe needs to make bold bets and invent technologies that will enable the continent to regain leadership and sovereignty in space. We are delighted to welcome Look Up as a partner of JEDI to make Europe a power shaping the space domain. Their cutting-edge innovation and the outstanding talent of the European space industry will strengthen our 7.500-strong deeptech ecosystem committed to developing the breakthroughs that will ensure Europe’s future competitiveness and sovereignty.”