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What is COSMOVIA ? The exciting progress in precision cosmology, in gravitational wave astronomy, new cosmic-ray and accelerator experiments promise large amount of a new information and discoveries in coming years. The results of these experiments have a direct impact on the development of astroparticle models which also give direct feed-back to the running experiments for search of new effects or particles following from these models. Theoretical analysis of these results will have impact on the fundamental knowledge on the structure of microworld and Universe and on the basic, still unknown, physical laws of Nature. The project of Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics (VIA) was proposed in [1] and with support of ASPERA the tests began in 2007 with EVO lectures by profs. Francesco Fidecaro, Hubert Reeves and Etienne Parizot and regular course “Introduction to cosmoparticle physics” by Prof. Maxim Khlopov for students of Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (State University). Starting from lecture by John Ellis (CERN, Switzerland) in January 2008 the activity of the Institute takes place on the website: http://www.cosmovia.org/ in a form of regular communications between different groups and scientists, working in various scientific fields and parts of the world. This activity began with a regular series of lectures on the main problems and newest results in astroparticle physics (in particular in experiments MAGIC, HESS, AUGER, WMAP5, CDMS). Its development and extension would easily allow finding mutual interest and organizing task forces for different scientific topics. It can help in the elaboration of strategy of experimental particle, nuclear, astrophysical and cosmological studies as well as in proper analysis of experimental data. The following forms of activity are planned: • Virtual seminars will be experimented, where individual researchers will be able to ”attend” from their post by using videoconferencing software (adobe, EVO, marratech etc). Maximum interactivity will be sought. • The Institute would consider the involvement of young physicists into its activity as one of the most important aspect of the work. It will open the possibility for young people to find scientific direction and even topics of study with possible supervisor. For this purpose the site would provide virtual lectures, and student courses of lectures and training for young scientists from all over the world. • Collaborative spaces (e.g. of the WIKI type) will be created where the exchange of work on specific items will be secured for groups of co-authors. • Public spaces will also be available, where the main results of the domain will be presented, including links involving scientists in studies of particular problems. • Databases of records of videoconferences and .ppt presentations at topical conferences and schools will make it a source of information on different topics. The structure, forms of activity and scientific policy of VIA is determined by the Institutes and Organizations, which contribute its budget. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Links: aspera: www.aspera-eu.org astroparticle: www.astroparticle.org laboratoire APC: www.apc.univ-paris7.fr/APC_CS/ in2p3: www.in2p3.fr princeton university: www.princeton.edu/main/ cnrs: www.cnrs.fr

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