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Astroparticle Physics in Europe A Roadmap Draft October 3, 2006 On this Roadmap The Steering Committee of ApPEC (Astroparticle Physics European Coordination) has charged the ApPEC Peer Review Committee (PRC) in 2005 to prepare a roadmap for astroparticle physics in Europe* which covers the next decade. The need for such a readmap arises since projects in astroparticle physics move to ever larger sensitivity and scale, with costs of individual projects on the 100 M€ scale or beyond. The roadmap presented here was prepared by the PRC between October 2005 and October 2006. As a first step towards the roadmap, the state of the experiments in the field was evaluated using a questionnaire filled out by the spokespersons of all astroparticle experiments in Europe, or with European participation (http://www. …….).. Based on this information, on input from the proponents and on presentations given to ApPEC in the last years, the most promising research areas and instrumental approaches were identified. A town meeting in Munich in 2005 served to discuss and iterate these initial concepts with the community at large. The recommendations given in the roadmap were in several stages iterated in particular with the spokespersons of the experiments as well as with the ApPEC Steering Committee. The resulting ApPEC roadmap marks the first stage of a strategy process which foresees a “second stage” roadmap in July 2008. This second stage will be coordinated within ASPERA, an FP6 ERA-Network, with the aim to give detailed implementation scenarios and priorities. The present “first stage” roadmap describes the status and desirable options for the next decade and will help to define the financial and organizational conditions to reach the envisaged goals. This represents an important input to the second stage of the roadmap process. We argue that physics prospects and worldwide competition suggest a significant increase in funding for astroparticle physics. In 2008, the consolidat