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   * * * Meeting with the High-Energy Astrophysics Community * * *

                   9-10 February 2009, Roma, Italy

   Strengthening European Cooperation in High-Energy Astrophysics:
                     Toward a Proposal for FP7

                    A European FP7 proposal on 
Integrated Activities for the High-Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD)
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There is an emergent need to coordinate efforts in high-energy
astrophysics at the European level. In January 2008, an adhoc Steering
Committee (SC), composed of several members of the high-energy
astrophysics community, was formed to discuss the opportunity for a
European Framework Programme #7 proposal entitled Integrated
Activities for the High-Energy Astrophysics Domain (AHEAD).

This proposal will be submitted as a response to the Spring 2010 call
for bottom-up integrated activities, in the frame of the FP7
Capacities Work Programme for support to existing research
infrastructures. To ensure that the needs of the high-energy
astrophysics community are adequately represented, the SC has invited
the community to respond massively to a Call for participation in
Summer 2008 and to participate in the preparation and the definition
of the proposal.

This meeting aims to present to the high-energy astrophysics community
the current structure of activities of AHEAD. Activities submitted as
a response to the call for participation and deemed by the steering
committee potentially most interesting for inclusion in the future
AHEAD proposal will also be presented. This meeting will be open to
the community to increase the dialogue between all interested parties.
Therefore, members of the high-energy astrophysics community are
encouraged to register and participate.

AHEAD webpage  : http://isdc.unige.ch/ahead/

Meeting webpage: http://isdc.unige.ch/ahead/meetings/meeting_2009_02/

Deadline       : 31 December 2008

Contact        : ahead @ unige.ch